Senior Transportation Planner - ( 240004DX ) **Description** Strong communities do not just happen—they are built. They are creatively imagined, collaboratively planned, and readied to face tomorrow with optimism. We are driving the future of Community Development. Our experts lead their fields, collaborating on projects that are as technically challenging as they are impactful, creative, and fulfilling. We’re a place where you can apply your passion—and find endless opportunities to help make communities more equitable, resilient, and livable. Join Stantec’s growing Urban Places 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 mid-level transportation planner to support its Urban Places 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. **Your Key Responsibilities** The role of the Senior Transportation Planner will be to work independently and as a member of a multi-disciplinary team on transportation projects of varying size and complexity. Often, the Planner will be managing projects, leading tasks and supervising others in the Urban Places Mobility Group or from other practices. The candidate should have a working understanding of multimodal transportation processes, analysis and methodology. The successful candidate should have a range of skills as work will regularly include the following tasks in support of the range of projects described above: * 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 **Qualifications** **Your Capabilities and Credentials** * 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 **Education and Experience** * A degree (preferably graduate degree) in Transportation, Urban Design, Planning, Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Engineering, or a related field and/or at 5-10 years of relevant experience * Project management / deputy project management experience * Additional experience with graphics (Illustrator, InDesign, SketchUp), modeling (Synchro, TransCAD), or database analysis will be considered favorably **The ability to be based in our Boston office, or to be there on a regular basis** Typical office environment working with computers. Some travel may be required (10-15%), such as facilitating client meetings in remote cities, supervising field data collection efforts, or delivering and presenting plans or documents to reviewing agencies or clients. May occasionally visit study areas, construction sites and/or be exposed to outside elements and inclement weather conditions. _This description is not a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that may be required of the employee and other duties, responsibilities and activities may be assigned or may be changed at any time with or without notice._ Stantec is a place where the best and brightest come to build on each other’s talents, do exciting work, and make an impact on the world around us. Join us and redefine your personal best. **Benefits Summary:** Regular full-time and part-time employees 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. _The benefits information listed above may not apply to union positions because benefits for such positions are governed by applicable collective bargaining agreements._ **Primary Location** : United States-Massachusetts-Boston **Organization** : BC-2104 CommDev-US Northeast **Employee Status** : Regular **Job Level** : Individual Contributor **Travel** : Yes, 10 % of the Time **Schedule** : Full-time **Job Posting** : Dec 11, 2024, 1:37:10 PM **Req ID:** 240004DX Stantec provides equal employment opportunities to all qualified employees and applicants for future and current employment and prohibit discrimination on the grounds of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, marital status, genetic information, disability, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression. 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