Transportation Planner

Company Description

AECOM is a global infrastructure consulting firm delivering a better world. Whether improving commutes, keeping lights on, providing clean water, or transforming skylines, our work helps people and communities thrive. With accelerating infrastructure investment worldwide, our services are in great demand. We invite you to bring your bold ideas and big dreams and become part of a global team of over 50,000 professionals delivering projects that create positive and tangible impact around the world.

The AECOM Transport Planning and Operations team within the Transit & Rail division of Transportation is seeking a talented, ambitious Transportation Planner/Engineer for immediate employment at one of our Toronto‑area offices (Markham or Mississauga). The appropriately qualified applicant will be a key team member on a variety of local projects and will have the opportunity to build on prior experience in transit, transportation, and urban planning in the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area.

This is a newly created position.

• Providing clients with transportation planning services, serving as a technical analyst and/or project coordinator, with a focus on transit planning, policy, and economics projects.
• Transit station planning and functional design.
• Transportation policy studies.
• Business case assessments for transportation projects.
• Transportation master‑plan studies.
• Active transportation planning and design projects.
• Environmental assessments for transportation facilities.
• Input to traffic impact studies.
• Transportation study peer reviews.
• Urban/City Planning.
• Preparing documentation related to current or prospective projects (correspondence, reports, maps, proposals, expressions of interest, specifications, consultation materials, meeting minutes).
• Communicating and working with other project team members, including mentoring junior‑level team members.
• Liaising with and assisting other departments and offices in the provision of transportation planning services to clients.
• Completing work within the prescribed time and budget while maintaining high quality.

• Bachelor’s degree or greater in Civil Engineering, Urban Planning, or a similar field with a strong emphasis on transportation planning or engineering.
• 2+ years of experience in transportation planning with some experience in transit, active transportation, and/or multimodal projects.
• Excellent technical writing skills and experience producing a variety of deliverable types, including technical memoranda, reports, and public‑facing documents.
• Strong verbal communication, with presentation, facilitation and listening skills.
• Proficient working knowledge of ArcGIS for producing high‑quality maps and basic network analysis.
• Proficient working knowledge of the Microsoft Office suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint).
• Experience undertaking planning studies with large data sets.

• Strong understanding and application of analytical outputs from transportation planning modelling tools (Synchro, EMME, Trans
  
  CAD, VISSIM or equivalent).
• Strong understanding of current transportation planning, policy, and infrastructure initiatives in the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area (with an emphasis on transit), land use and demographic trends, and general urban planning and related policy issues.
• Transit service operations and planning practices, including transit priority assessments.
• Experience in a professional consulting environment.
• Experience in transportation planning policies and infrastructure economics, including an appreciation of transit service systems and revenue forecasting.
• Familiarity with public finance issues related to municipalities and provinces in Ontario and Canada, including revenue tools and development charges.
• Bicycle and pedestrian infrastructure planning and design, including familiarity with established and emerging design practices locally and globally.
• Transportation demand management and parking policies.

Sponsorship for Canadian employment authorization is not available for this position.

Compensation range: $65,000 to $86,000 per year, based on…