Entry-Level Transportation Engineer​/Planner Fall

Overview

If you are interested in multiple locations please only apply once, your preference will be discussed during the screening process.

Here, you’ll be empowered to grow in your career. The position offers the flexibility and entrepreneurial benefits of operating as a “start-up” office, but is also backed by the technical experts, support, and resources from across the company. As a key contributor to the growth of a new office, multiple opportunities present themselves for shaping office operations, building client and staff relationships, accelerating career growth, and making a difference in our local communities.

We provide support at every stage of your professional journey while respecting your need for work-life balance. Come be a part of our team, where your contributions will leave a lasting positive impact on the communities we serve. Opportunities for personal and professional growth are maximized through experience in both planning and engineering project work and by exposure to a multitude of project types and tasks, including the following:

- Transportation impact studies

- Bicycle and pedestrian planning

- Access, circulation, and parking studies

- Multimodal operations assessments

- Complete streets planning, operations, and design

- Cost estimates and project specifications

- Transit forecasting and operations

- Travel behavior forecasting

- Vehicle miles of travel (VMT) assessments

- Systemic safety studies

- Highway interchange/corridor studies

- Climate action plans

- Freight planning

- Transportation demand management(TDM) plans

- Design drawings from the conceptual stage all the way to construction-ready documents, including the following:

- Bikeways/complete streets

- Signing and striping

- Traffic signals/ITS

- Street lighting

- Roundabouts

- Temporary traffic control

Please review the responsibilities below.

• Ongoing:
  Conduct transportation analysis and write reports
• Ongoing:
  Participate in meetings, including preparing presentations and public outreach materials
• Ongoing:
  Handle project management responsibilities
• Ongoing:
  Participate in professional organizations
• Ongoing:
  Conduct site visits and collect field data
• Ongoing:
  Explore the Fehr & Peers internal Research and Development program
• By the end of the first month:
  Participate in on-the-job training and mentoring
• By the end of the first month:
  Work on a few different projects
• By the end of the first month:
  Seek additional work from project managers
• By the end of six months:
  Work on a variety of projects with most staff in the office
• By the end of six months:
  Use several technical software programs
• By the end of six months:
  Prepare deliverables, including memos, reports, and presentations
• By the end of the first year:
  Attend multiple client meetings
• By the end of the first year:
  Increase responsibility for managing small projects

• An entrepreneurial spirit and proactive approach to communication and getting work done
• Genuine curiosity for the work and familiarity with the challenges of day-to-day travel within your community
• Completed bachelor’s or in-process master’s degree in transportation, civil or electrical engineering, urban and regional planning, or a related major (e.g., geography, math, statistics, economics)
• Coursework in transportation, engineering, urban and regional planning, geography, math, statistics, economics, or other related courses (an EIT for engineering candidates is preferred)
• Experience or exposure related to topic areas (note that experience in all areas is not required):
  Field work, traffic operations analysis, signal design, transportation planning (e.g., bicycle or transit plans, infrastructure finance, transportation and land use policy, and/or travel demand modeling)
• Experience or exposure to relevant software (note that experience with all software is not required):
  General–Microsoft Excel, GIS (ArcGIS, QGIS), and/or CAD (AutoCAD, Microstation). Traffic Operations Analysis–HCS, Synchro/Sim Traffic, Vistro, VISSIM, and/or Sidra. Travel Demand Modeling–Cube/Voyager, Trans
  
  CAD, VISUM, and/or Emme. Programming–Python and/or R.
• Previous work experience in an office setting related to a topic…