Senior Planner / Engineer - Transportation

Stantec; Waterloo; Hybrid; CAD 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in transportation planning is seeking a Senior Transportation Planner / Engineer to join their team in Waterloo. This role involves leading projects related to traffic engineering and planning, with a focus on innovative solutions for diverse clients. Ideal candidates will have extensive experience and a strong background in transportation policies and engineering software.

Benefits

Health, dental, and vision plans

Well-being program

Tuition reimbursement

Paid time off

Qualifications

• Minimum 15 years of related work experience.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• General knowledge of transportation planning policies.

Responsibilities

• Lead and deliver projects in traffic impact studies and functional planning.
• Contribute to business development and provide technical leadership.
• Conduct traffic modeling and transit planning.

Skills

Communication

Data Analysis

Traffic Engineering

Transportation Planning

Education

Professional Engineer or Professional Planner registration in Ontario

Tools

Synchro

SimTraffic

Visum

Vissim

EMME

Job description

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Description

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. Our group helps define and create the places, networks and infrastructure that connect people to prosperity, and to each other.

Imagine being part of a dynamic team that plans and designs innovative solutions for a diverse set of clients. Our Transportation Planning and Traffic Engineering (TPTE) group provides comprehensive planning, design, and engineering services across Ontario and beyond. As a Senior Transportation Planner / Engineer, you will have the opportunity to lead and contribute to a variety of planning and design projects while guiding more junior transportation professionals as a team. The ideal candidate will be a problem solver who takes initiative with demonstrated knowledge and experience in transportation engineering and planning projects, basic understanding of regulatory requirements, good overall communication skills including technical writing skills, and demonstrated experience with transportation planning, data analysis, traffic engineering, preliminary design, and modelling (MS Excel / Access, GIS, modelling software).

We are seeking a highly motivated Senior Transportation Planner / Engineer to join our Transportation Planning and Traffic Engineering (TPTE) team in the GTA. This group provides consulting services to many private and public sector clients, including Metrolinx, the Ministry of Transportation Ontario, and municipalities across the GTA.

Your Key Responsibilities

You will be responsible for leading and delivering projects in any of the following areas :

• Traffic Impact Studies
• Functional Planning
• Parking Facility Planning And Design
• Development Access
• Active Transportation Planning (pedestrian and cycling system planning and facility design)
• Site Plan Functional Design Review (traffic, parking, loading)
• Traffic Modeling
• Transit Planning
• Traffic Management Plans
• Transportation Planning (Master Planning, Environmental Assessments)
• You will also contribute to business development and provide technical leadership to more junior staff on the team.

Qualifications

You are a highly motivated, registered Professional Engineer or Professional Planner in the Province of Ontario (or eligible to apply for these registrations), and have a minimum of 15 years of related and applied work experience.

The ideal candidate will also have the following additional skills and qualifications :

• Minimum 15 Years Industry experience.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• General knowledge of relevant transportation planning and traffic engineering policies and design standards used in Ontario
• Working knowledge of transportation engineering related software such as Synchro, SimTraffic, Visum, Vissim, EMME, etc.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office, specifically Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook
• Municipal and / or Provincial experience would be an asset.
• RSP [Road Safety Professional] certification, or knowledge and experience in road safety would be an asset.

Position will be full-time hybrid employment for a transportation planner / engineer with desire to progress toward seniority.

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 will have access to health, dental, and vision plans, a well-being program, health care spending account, wellness spending accounts, group registered retirement savings plan, employee stock purchase program, group tax-free savings account, 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 time off.

Temporary / casual employees will have access to group registered retirement savings plan, employee stock purchase program, and group tax-free savings account.

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 : Canada-Ontario-Markham

Other Locations : Canada-Ontario-Stoney Creek, Canada-Ontario-Toronto, Canada-Ontario-Mississauga, Canada-Ontario-Waterloo

Employee Status : Regular

Job Level : Individual Contributor

Travel : Yes, 20 % of the Time

Schedule : Full-time

Job Posting : May 12, 2025, 8 : 50 : 04 AM

additional

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. We prohibit discrimination in decisions concerning recruitment, hiring, referral, promotion, compensation, fringe benefits, job training, terminations or any other condition of employment. Stantec is in compliance with local, state and federal laws and regulations and ensures equitable opportunities in all aspects of employment. EEO including Disability / Protected Veterans

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