Senior Urban Planner-Transportation

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.

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.

This position will be a casual status opportunity.

Stantec is seeking an experienced, creative, and motivated Senior Urban Planner – Transportation to support the Transportation Planning and Traffic Engineering group in Ontario. The selected candidate will support the group’s growing local and national practice and work directly with industry-leading multimodal transportation planners, engineers and mobility specialists across North America.

The role involves developing and implementing transportation policies, collaborating with stakeholders, analyzing data, and leading the assessment of project impacts through an equity lens. Candidates should have a strong understanding of urban transportation planning principles and good communication skills.

• Act as a Senior Urban Planner on complex and challenging transportation planning assignments;
• Use knowledge of provincial and local planning policy in the preparation of planning policy studies for public sector clients;
• Contribute to transportation planning and engineering projects including feasibility studies, transportation environmental assessments, functional plans, and preliminary designs for active transportation facilities and other types of facilities as assigned
• Assist with facilitation of public workshop events.
• Use knowledge of planning, land use, infrastructure economics, and transportation equity to analyze and address socioeconomic impacts of transportation infrastructure projects on the public
• Leverage experience with Ontario municipal capital infrastructure delivery processes to inform strategic planning initiatives that align with realistic construction timelines
• Serve as GIS lead on projects and comply with established project scope, schedule and budget; and coordinate multiple supporting GIS resources.
• Work with project teams to determine the optimal approach for using geospatial technologies to meet client needs, accurately estimate the corresponding level of effort, and then see implementation through to completion.
• Actively engage with immediate GIS team and greater GIS community, both locally and beyond, staying aware of the state of practice, new tools and technology, and opportunities for growth
• Support multi-disciplinary teams of planners, architects, urban designers, landscape architects, engineers
• Analysis and summary of data, including equity data, census, crash records, performance monitoring resources, etc
• Additional technical background in areas related to urban design, land economics, transportation planning and/or public engagement considered an asset;
• Demonstrated ability to readily identify potential problems on a project;

• Comprehensive understanding of planning and urban design principles specifically as it relates to urban, regional, and rural planning and placemaking, climate change and resilience, emerging innovations, and development economics.
• Interpretation and development of transportation planning policy, including master plans, land use plans and zoning by-laws
• Experience in transportation engineering and planning including functional planning and preliminary design…