Senior Transportation Planner

Arcadis is the worlds leading company delivering sustainable design engineering and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets.

We are more than 36000 people in over 70 countries dedicated toimproving quality of life. Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds together we can solve the worlds most complex challenges and deliver more impact together.

Role description:

Arcadis is seeking a Transportation Planner to join our growing transportation team. We are actively working to make communities safer and more sustainable by expanding our team with diverse skill sets. Such skills include transportation planning and policy review and analysis transportation data analysis clear technical and policy writing an awareness of key planning frameworks ability to lead to public and stakeholder consultation and project management.

The successful candidate will be self-motivated demonstrate excellent communication and collaboration skills be eager to learn and enjoy working in a fast-paced consulting environment. Strong writing presentation and public speaking skills will be of benefit in this position. You will play an important role in leading projects conducting analysis preparing documentation reporting and presenting findings. You will also have the opportunity to collaborate with a wide variety of professionals including active transportation transit goods movement placemaking safety traffic engineering modelling etc.

Arcadis provides flexible and remote work arrangements career development opportunities and a supportive and collaborative team environment. We encourage involvement in professional associations conferences and support our staff to grow through life-long learning.

Role accountabilities:

In this role you will take the lead on transportation planning projects guiding efforts through policy and planning reviews in-depth transportation data analysis and comprehensive network analyses. You will be responsible for authoring a range of reports such as background context documents needs assessments network development reports and consultation summaries ensuring clarity and actionable insights for clients and stakeholders.

You will also play a pivotal role in developing broader visioning plans and policies including transportation master plans safety strategies and Complete Streets initiatives. Your expertise will be crucial in directing consultation effortspreparing presentations and materials for meetings guiding consultation specialists on project support and representing both the project team and client in public and stakeholder forums.

As a Transportation Planner you will lead client and stakeholder meetings ensuring that objectives are clearly understood and met and that accurate and comprehensive meeting minutes are maintained. You will stay at the forefront of industry and municipal best practices researching topics such as goods movement active transportation emerging technologies road user safety and other community-building addition you will contribute to and lead the preparation of compelling proposals supporting the continued growth and impact of the Mobility Advisory team. Other related duties may be assigned as needed to support project and team success.

Qualifications & Experience:

• University degree in urban/regional planning civil engineering or related field
• Eligibility to become a Registered Professional Planner or a Professional Engineer is an asset
• Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Office suite
• Knowledge of Microsoft Access ArcGIS or Adobe Illustrator an asset
• Excellent analytical and decision-making skills with a commitment to excellence and high-quality work
• Proven technical writing skills in English
• A proven ability to create visually attractive documents presentations and graphics or visuals is an asset
• Ability to be flexible and collaborate in a multi-disciplinary team while maintaining quality work within a fast-paced environment
• Ability to regularly attend client and public meetings in person in the Greater Vancouver Area and beyond
• Demonstrated collaborative attitude in working with members of our diverse team
• Strong interpersonal and organizational skills

Why Arcadis

We can only achieve our goals when everyone is empowered to be their best. We believe everyones contribution matters. Its why we are pioneering a skills-based approach where you can harness your unique experience and expertise to carve your career path and maximize the impact we can make together.

Youll do meaningful work and no matter what role youll be helping to deliver sustainable solutions for a more prosperous planet. Make your mark on your career your colleagues your clients your life and the world around you.

Together we can create a lasting legacy.

Join Arcadis. Create a Legacy.

Our Commitment to Equality Diversity Inclusion & Belonging

We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day which is why we take equality and inclusion seriously and hold ourselves to account for our actions. Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people. We are an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. Women minorities people with disabilities and veterans are strongly encouraged to apply. We are dedicated to a policy of non-discrimination in employment on any basis including race creed color religion national origin sex age disability marital status sexual orientation gender identity citizenship status disability veteran status or any other basis prohibited by law.