Senior Transportation Engineer

R.J. Burnside & Associates Limited (Burnside) is seeking a knowledgeable, results-driven, and enthusiastic Professional Engineer to join our Municipal Transportation Planning team. With a strong background in transportation and traffic engineering, you’ll guide and support planning, design, and construction planning activities for a variety of municipal projects.

This role offers the opportunity to help lead and further develop our transportation planning and traffic services across the GTHA. You’ll work closely with the Vice President – Municipal Transportation Planning and contribute to a dynamic team of planners and engineers.

What You'll Be Doing

As a Senior Transportation Engineer, you’ll bring expertise in roadway safety, signal operations, traffic staging, intersection performance, and intelligent transportation systems. You’ll play a key role in shaping public sector transportation planning in the GTHA.

What Success Looks Like

• Administer contracts between owners and contractors in accordance with contract terms.


• Lead conceptual and functional roadway designs


• Conduct traffic operations and safety reviews for urban and rural roads


• Manage projects involving traffic/transit signal studies, safety studies, and traffic impact analyses


• Provide expertise in traffic signals, ITS, and connected vehicle technologies


• Oversee design, construction, and operation of traffic signals and ITS/CV initiatives


• Lead or participate in client meetings and stakeholder engagement


• Drive business development for transportation planning and traffic engineering projects


• Deliver projects efficiently and on schedule

Key Responsibilities 

• Lead and manage transportation planning and traffic engineering projects


• Provide technical direction on signal operations, roadway safety, and traffic staging


• Develop traffic management plans for temporary conditions and construction


• Optimize traffic signals and transit priority systems


• Utilize traffic engineering software (e.g., Synchro, SimTraffic, Vissim, Aimsum)


• Mentor junior staff and contribute to team development


• Participate in proposal writing and client presentations


• Maintain high standards of project documentation and reporting

What You'll Bring  

• Professional Engineer (P.Eng.) designation in Ontario or eligibility for licensing


• Ideally certified as a Road Safety Professional (RSP)


• Minimum 10 years of experience in transportation planning and traffic engineering


• Experience with Vision Zero policies and traffic calming implementation


• Strong knowledge of traffic signal optimization and ATMS


• Proficiency in traffic engineering software tools


• Excellent communication, organizational, and analytical skills


• Proven ability to manage multiple projects and priorities


• Experience mentoring and leading teams


• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite


• Valid Ontario driver’s license and access to a vehicle

Why Choose Burnside?

Are you interested in working for an employer with a 5-decade track record of building a great reputation both internally with their staff and externally with their clients? The Burnside team is a supportive group of colleagues that work together to provide value and service to our clients, while extending care to each other. We know that our employees are our greatest asset, and thus we strive to provide a positive work/life balance.

We offer:

• A collaborative culture where friendship, honesty and respect are part of our core values and practices


• Flexible working hours and office locations, including hybrid working opportunities


• A competitive compensation and benefits package


• RRSP company matching plan


• Career growth and professional development opportunities


• Potential for performance-driven bonusing


• Active social committees


• A welcoming, positive, and inclusive work environment

We are an equal opportunity employer committed to valuing diversity in the workplace, and we welcome resumes from all qualified candidates. Burnside will provide reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities throughout the entire recruitment, assessment, and selection process, as required. If you are a person with a disability and require an accommodation during these processes, please contact our Human Resources department.

Company Profile – More about us:

Founded in 1970, R.J. Burnside & Associates Limited is a growing values-driven employee-owned multidiscipline engineering and environmental consulting firm with over 450 staff. Our consistent commitment towards investing in technology advancements and training, in addition to encouraging and promoting professional development, has enabled our firm to meet our ongoing and stated goal of continual improvement.

We actively seek to develop relationships with a broad and diversified client base in the Public, Private and Indigenous sectors. We work on a variety of projects throughout Canada, with 11 office locations in Ontario and one in Manitoba.

Burnside has expertise in many technical disciplines beyond our core civil engineering focus including air and noise, asset management, building sciences, environmental planning and ecology, GIS, hydrogeology, land development, landscape architecture, municipal drainage, solid waste, stormwater management, structures, transportation planning and design, water and wastewater and well drilling & diagnostics.

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