Senior Transportation Planner

Senior Transportation Planner

Strong communities don't just happen. They're thoughtfully planned and future-ready. We bring life to urban downtowns, suburban hubs, small towns, and rural areas through master-planned communities, mixed-use developments, parks, and recreation facilities. The result: vibrant economic centers, resilient neighborhoods, and welcoming places that feel like home. If you're passionate about empowering communities, join us to discover a career with endless opportunities to make communities more equitable, resilient, and livable. Join Stantec's growing Urban Places Mobility Group to help us create the biking, walking, transit, and emerging mobility networks that serve the most livable, prosperous, sustainable, resilient, and equitable urban/urbanizing places in North America. We are an interdisciplinary, cross-continental team of leading transportation planners building a boutique practice with the full complement of resources of a global consulting firm. We work closely with our architecture, planning, transit, engineering, environmental, landscape architecture, real estate development, smart city, transportation and other colleagues across Stantec to help a diverse range of public and private clients realize the full range of benefits that flow from dense, walkable downtowns, neighborhoods, and corridors. Driven by data, innovation, and grounded in real world applications, our plans inspire people with a spectrum of work that includes planning for parking, transit, pedestrian safety, traffic analysis, transportation demand management, development planning, mobility studies, smart mobility solutions, campus planning, freight access, and much more. Our Mobility Group team helps define and create the places, networks and infrastructure that connect people to prosperity, and to each other.

Stantec is seeking an experienced, creative, and motivated senior level transportation planner to support its Urban Places Mobility Group. The selected candidate will support the group's growing local and national practice and work directly with industry-leading multimodal transportation planners across North America. Candidates must be willing to travel and ideally have a valid driver's license. The position would be based in Boston.

Your Key Responsibilities

• Facilitating client and public meetings
• Preparation of marketing materials, including leading proposal development efforts
• Report writing and compilation
• Development of PowerPoint presentations and digital or physical project materials
• Deliverable production, including staff management
• Administrative and organizational work
• Strategic planning
• Directing and mentoring junior staff
• Coordinating with other disciplines
• Completing project management responsibilities, such as budgets, invoices, and administrative tasks
• Managing up to ensure proper project participation and review by senior staff

Your Capabilities and Credentials

• Excellent skills in research, data analysis, and problem solving
• Strong communications skills--verbal, written, and visual
• Experience with the production of planning reports and documents
• Thorough knowledge and/or familiarity with GIS and its capabilities
• Thorough knowledge and/or familiarity with Adobe Creative Suite
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team in a fast-paced environment
• Proficiency with Microsoft Excel, Word, and PowerPoint
• Demonstrated responsibility, maturity and commitment to a team driven environment
• Willingness to travel as needed

Education and Experience

• A degree (preferably graduate degree) in Transportation, Urban Design, Planning, Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Engineering, or a related field
• 5-10+ years of relevant experience
• Project management / deputy project management experience
• Additional experience with graphics (Illustrator, InDesign, SketchUp), modeling (Synchro, TransCAD), or database analysis will be considered favorably

Typical office environment working with computers. Some travel may be required (10-15%), such as facilitating client meetings in remote cities, supervising field data collection efforts, or delivering and presenting plans or documents to reviewing agencies or clients. May occasionally visit study areas, construction sites, and/or be exposed to outside elements and inclement weather conditions.

This description is not a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that may be required of the employee and other duties, responsibilities and activities may be assigned or may be changed at any time with or without notice.