Transportation Planner Jobs

About The Position

Requirements

• 5-10 years’ relevant experience in the transportation or planning sector, though consultancy or public sector work.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent, Master’s degree preferred.
• Experience developing successful proposals for public sector requests (including EOIs, RFQs, and RFPs).
• The ability to work autonomously yet collaboratively with colleagues and our clients in a fast-paced environment.
• An existing right to work in the United States or Canada.
• Ability to provide technical leadership across multiple disciplines or skills, such as: strategic planning for public sector transportation agencies; multimodal planning, governance and public policy development, business case development, and data analysis and visualization.
• Experience with one or more complex transportation models and related analytical tools, such as GIS, EMME, TransCAD, R, Python or similar; as well as visualisation tools such as Illustrator, InDesign, Tableau, Power BI or similar.
• Successfully led or had a lead role on transportation planning and policy projects.
• Proven experience with behavioural change analysis tools and concepts commonly used in the transportation industry, such as market segmentation and stated preference surveys.
• Effective consulting skills: listening and clarifying client problems, understanding project scope, managing time and resources, ensuring margins.
• Effective communication skills: distilling your work in a succinct and compelling manner both verbally (written/oral) and graphically (graphs, flow charts, infographics).
• Experience working on projects that emphasize decision making, governance, and policy development.
• Experience with public sector clients, including major agencies or ministries related to transportation, housing, land use, energy, and community and economic development.
• Project and team management skills – including utilization planning, task allocation, and commercial management of consulting projects.

Responsibilities

• Work alongside colleagues to conceptualize, develop, and deliver on new and existing client projects, including in multimodal planning, regional planning, TDM, and equitable and sustainable mobility.
• Manage their own work, and the work of others, to budget and quality expectations.
• Support Steer’s Planning & Design practice via client engagement, work winning, and proposal development.
• Serve as an in-house resource in the areas of behavior change analysis.
• Mentor and support early career professionals.

Benefits

• Excellent medical, dental, and vision coverage
• 3% 401(k)/RRSP contribution
• Discretionary annual bonus
• Generous paid time off including vacation, public holidays, sick time, and volunteering days- up to 44 days (US) and 47 days (Canada) annually
• Group Share Incentive Plan, providing employees with the opportunity to share in the long-term success of the firm
• Commuter benefits (US)
• Flexible, hybrid working environment