Transportation Engineer; FTT

Marketing Statement

As the largest operating company in the integrated Trans Link enterprise, Coast Mountain Bus Company (CMBC) operates a fleet of clean‑fuel conventional and community shuttle buses, zero‑emission trolley buses, and passenger ferry Sea Buses in Metro Vancouver, the largest single transit service area in Canada.

At CMBC, one of BC’s Top Employers, we’re committed to providing an innovative, healthy, and engaging workforce. This is reflected in our workforce of over 5,500 employees performing over 400 unique jobs, who are committed and empowered to deliver service that attracts nearly 1.1 million passengers daily and connects people, businesses, and communities in the Metro Vancouver region.

We have the important job of helping our passengers get to work, appointments, visiting with family and friends, and back again every day. Metro Vancouver relies on us, and we take that as a point of pride.

PRIMARY PURPOSE

Provides full working level of transportation and traffic engineering expertise to various projects and day to day operations that support the safe and efficient bus operations at CMBC.

• Participates in the development of plans and studies to assess transit needs, transportation infrastructure requirements, infrastructure expansion opportunities, specific service areas and transit corridors as related to CMBC.
• Supports the Manager, Transit Engineering in the day to day operations of the Transit Engineering Department involved in Facilities Planning and Operational Projects, municipal road projects, Transit Related Road and Infrastructure Program (TRRIP), and transit safety and efficiency issues for bus operations.
• Collaborates with Trans Link Engineering Department to conduct functional design and studies for roads facilities, transit priority plan, traffic management, traffic control devices and traffic/transit safety and efficiency projects. Participates in the development and documentation of standards and guidelines relating to roadway and multi‑modal facility designs to facilitate bus operations.
• Participates in the research, design and development on bus stop engineering, bus loops and exchanges. Provides information and technical advice to internal and external stakeholders to ensure safe and efficient bus operations.
• Works with safety committees of bus operators’ union to ensure operational safety according to the designed policies, standards and processes.
• Represents CMBC on provincial/municipal sponsored transportation projects, providing technical advice, analyses and designs to resolve safety and operational issues, develops roadway improvements, reviews municipal community and transportation plans.
• Applies sound engineering judgment to cooperatively solve problems and recommend practical solutions in a complex, multi‑stakeholder operational environment that often involves competing objectives and trade‑offs.

The competencies for the position would typically be acquired through a university degree in civil engineering (including a P.Eng. designation or eligibility to be registered with APEGBC) and a minimum of 3 years’ experience in transportation, highway and traffic engineering and design.

• Strong knowledge of the principles, theories, concepts and practices of transportation, highway and traffic engineering, including the application of principles related to traffic management/transit priority, geometric design, road design, and transit operations.
• Working knowledge of the deployment of state‑of‑the‑art traffic network simulation tools for transportation demand forecasting, network analysis, planning and reporting.
• Strong analytical skills to identify, assess and provide input/recommendations related to transportation engineering and project‑related risks and opportunities in an integrated, multi‑disciplinary environment.
• Excellent communication skills to write and deliver well‑prepared reports and presentations.
• Excellent interpersonal skills to build trust by consulting with others and applying a team approach as needed to achieve solutions.
• Solid decision‑making skills and…