Transportation Planner

Position Challenge / Qualification Profile

Position Summary: Reporting to the Transportation Manager, your main focus will be providing transportation planning services to the Calgary Office, Transportation Department.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Provide clients with transportation planning services, including work on: functional planning studies; public engagement facilitation; traffic impact studies; transportation master plan studies; environmental assessments for transportation facilities; parking studies; traffic data collection/analysis; traffic calming studies; safety assessments; and transportation study peer reviews
• Prepare documentation related to current or prospective projects, including quality assurance; correspondence, reports, proposals, expressions of interest, specifications and meeting minutes
• Carry out some project management activities such as project team coordination, monitoring schedule and budget compliance and assisting with invoice preparation
• Communicate and work with other project team members to provide quality and timely service to clients to ensure that all the documentation conforms to client/company standards
• Liaise with and assist other firm departments and offices in the provision of transportation planning services to clients
• Co-ordinate environmental assessment processes for planning studies
• Manage environmental specialists (on staff or sub-consultant) contributing to projects
• Research (literature and field work) and preparing planning reports
• Prepare for and participate in Public Information Centres
• Meet with clients and prepare deliverables for clients
• Undertaking mapping/GIS work
• Other duties as assigned    

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Transportation Engineering, Planning or related discipline
• Five years of relevant experience in transportation planning
• MCIP or RPP designation (or working towards)
• Excellent technical and analytical skills
• Excellent project management skills with respect to completing projects and proposals on time and on budget
• Strategic, analytical and practical thinker
• Excellent presentation, facilitation and writing skills
• Practical experience with traffic data collection, modeling and analysis
• Practical experience in traffic operations analysis using Highway Capacity Manual and Canadian Capacity Guide methodologies and related software (HCS, Synchro, CCG) (desirable)
• Knowledge of, and experience with the application of Alberta/Canadian traffic engineering standards
• Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Project)
• Previous consulting experience an asset
• Valid Driver's License

Compensation

Our client provides a highly competitive salary and performance- based bonus programme.  In addition, as an employee owned company, Our client provides opportunities for share ownership to selected staff in senior positions.

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Submit your resume to:  resumes@virtualhrab.com 

(please have Transportation Planner as the subject line in your email)