Transport Planner

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

We are more than 34000 people in over 30 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 Traffic Planner /Operations Analyst with 2 to 5 years of experience to join our transportation team. We are actively working to make communities more sustainable by expanding our team with diverse skill sets. You will play an important role in the full life cycle of projects (conducting analysis reporting and presentation of findings client interaction). You will also have the opportunity to contribute to business development such as proposal preparation work scope strategy. Our multidisciplinary project teams will provide you with the opportunity to collaborate with a wide variety of professionals including urban planning and design architecture placemaking active transportation wayfinding land development and construction administration.

The successful candidate will be self-motivated demonstrate excellent communication 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 as there will be frequent interaction with various levels of municipal agencies and the client project teams.

Role accountabilities:

Typical projects will include site plans land development traffic calming and corridor studies including cycle tracks sidewalks bus rapid transit crosswalks pick-up/drop-off areas driveways and roundabouts.

Typical tasks include intersection and corridor operations modelling such as Synchro capacity-based Aimsun mesocopic and VISSIM microscopic software platforms.

Coordinating and quality control of field data collection traffic counts and surveys.

Conducting field observations to inform the preparation of land development traffic operations and parking studies.

Compiling and interpreting data such as traffic volumes parking utilization transportation patterns pedestrian desire lines and collision history.

Analyzing interpreting synthesizing and visualizing data

Using traffic operations analysis software to study existing operations forecast traffic patterns/operations and facilitate conceptual design for new road corridors / intersections from a complete streets perspective.

Reviewing and identifying design improvements for land development site plans from a road configuration site circulation parking loading and road user safety perspective via drawing mark-ups in either PDF and AutoCAD environments.

Assessing existing road conditions and recommending implementable enhancements to achieve client and municipal design goals with supporting analysis of costs and benefits.

Writing reports and contributing to proposals including traffic impact studies traffic calming studies parking studies documenting road design recommendations applying road design standards.

Communicating and guide the implementation of traffic related design improvements / recommendations to other internal teams and to external client teams.

Researching ongoing and evolving industry and municipal best practices in the realm of traffic operations congestion reduction initiatives transportation demand management parking reduction strategies car-dependence reduction bicycle lane enhancements and other general sustainable land development initiatives in urban and rural contexts.

You will be responsible for:

Delivering high quality on all technical deliverables.

Using professional judgment to identify and resolve technical problems.

Contributing to client and project success by focusing on improving quality of life and putting sustainability at the core of all you do.

Applying technical analysis report writing and other skills to deliver projects on-time and on-budget.

Regular coordination with project managers and team members to align project goals project progress and deliverables.

Attending internal and external multidisciplinary project team meetings and other meeting as required.

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. At Arcadis you will have the opportunity to build the career that is right for you. Because each Arcadian has their own motivations their own career goals. And as a people first business it is why we will take the time to listen to understand what you want from your time here and provide the support you need to achieve your ambitions.

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