Transportation Planner

A career in transportation is more than bridges, roads, and rail. As we plan, design, and manage projects that move people and goods from Point A to Point B, we create connections that transform our communities. Every airport, road, bridge, port, or transit project is an opportunity to make communities safer, cleaner, and more resilient. Together, we’re making an impact around the world.

If you’re looking for a career that moves, join our team of professionals passionate about the future of transportation.

Join Stantec’s growing Transportation Planning and Traffic Engineering group to help us create the biking, walking, transit, and emerging mobility networks that serve the most livable, prosperous, sustainable, resilient, and equitable places across Canada and beyond. 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 group helps define and create the places, networks and infrastructure that connect people to prosperity, and to each other.

Stantec is seeking a Transportation Planner to complement and grow our skilled Transportation Planning & Traffic Engineering (TPTE) Team in our Markham or Toronto office. Reporting to the Department Manager, you will support the delivery of traffic and transportation planning projects for public and private sector clients across Ontario.

• Planning, conducting and coordinating multi-modal planning and transportation analyses, including traffic, bike/ped, transit, micromobility, and freight, using Complete Streets practices for our most vulnerable road users.
• Perform safety-related services, such as compilation of existing crash data, multidisciplinary field reviews, review of crash data to determine potential causes, recommendation of crash countermeasures, use of Highway Safety Manual methodologies, and economic benefit-cost analyses of such safety improvements.
• Work with a variety of analysis software programs effectively, such as Synchro, Sim Traffic, HCS, ARCADY, VISSIM, Vistro, Aimsun, Sidra, EMME, CUBE/Voyager, TransCAD, VISUM, ArcGIS, Python, IHSDM, HSM worksheets
• Work with a suite of Microsoft products including Word, Excel, Powerpoint, and Teams.
• Convert results and measures of effectiveness from such software to make timely and informed recommendations to clients, elected officials, and stakeholders.
• Work with multi-disciplinary teams on tasks such as transportation master planning studies, transportation environmental assessments, traffic calming studies, traffic impact studies, road safety audits, planning and design of facilities related to parking, active transportation, surface transit lines and stations, transportation management plans, intersection design, signal design, roadway design, signing and pavement marking plans, Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS), site plan design, construction staging plans, traffic and signal operation analysis
• Prepare written technical reports to document the results of engineering/planning studies and surveys.
• Other duties as assigned/required

• Demonstrated minimum 5+ years of relevant technical experience
• Demonstrated experience working on multimodal traffic and transportation planning projects for public and private sector clients in the Province of Ontario
• Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively with clients and external stakeholders.
• Demonstrated working knowledge of relevant transportation planning and traffic engineering…