Senior Transportation Planner

Stantec Inc.•Boston, MA

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About The Position

We create the connections that get people and goods moving-whether by car, bus, train, plane, or their own two feet. Working within the context of the communities we serve, we provide planning, engineering, and infrastructure management services that fit the needs of our clients and improve the overall transportation experience. Join our team and help us keep communities connected. 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 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. https://www.stantec.com/en/markets/transportation/urban-mobility Your Opportunity Stantec is seeking an experienced, creative, and motivated senior level transportation planner to support its Urban 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. The ideal candidate will be experienced in the development of client-facing written and graphical materials and final deliverables, coordinating and facilitating meetings, and managing internal teams and resources. As this position involves leading and directing projects, past experience as a project manager is ideal. Technical experience with GIS, Adobe Suite, graphics packages, and/or other relevant software (traffic modeling and/or visualization etc.) would be a plus. Above all, the successful candidate will be highly self-motivated and must be able to multitask in a fast-moving environment.

Requirements

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
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
The ability to be based in our Boston office, or to be there on a regular basis

Nice To Haves

Additional experience with graphics (Illustrator, InDesign, SketchUp), modeling (Synchro, TransCAD), or database analysis will be considered favorably

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

Benefits

Regular full-time and part-time employees (working at least 20 hours per week) have access to medical, dental, and vision plans, a wellness program, health saving accounts, flexible spending accounts, 401(k) plan, employee stock purchase program, life and accidental death & dismemberment (AD&D) insurance, short-term/long-term disability plans, emergency travel benefits, tuition reimbursement, professional membership fee coverage and paid family leave.
Regular full-time and part-time employees will receive ten paid holidays in each calendar year.
In addition, employees will be eligible to accrue vacation between 10 and 20 days per year and eligible for paid sick leave (and if more generous, in accordance with state and local law).
Temporary/casual employees have access to 401(k) plans, employee stock purchase program, and paid leave, in accordance with state and local law.

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