Job Description

Company Description

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The AECOM Transport Planning and Operations team within the Transit & Rail division of Transportation is seeking a talented, ambitious Transportation Planner for immediate employment in one of our Toronto area offices (Markham or Mississauga). The appropriately qualified applicant will be a key team member on a variety of local projects and have an opportunity to build upon their prior experience in transit, transportation and urban planning in the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area.

The responsibilities of this position include, but are not limited to:

• Providing clients with transportation planning services, serving as a technical analyst and/or project coordinator, with a focus on transit planning, policy, and economics projects, such as:

• Transit station planning and functional design.
• Transportation policy studies
• Business case assessments for transportation projects
• Transportation master plan studies
• Active transportation planning and design projects
• Environmental assessments for transportation facilities
• Input to traffic impact studies
• Transportation study peer reviews
• Urban/City Planning
• Preparing documentation related to current or prospective projects, including correspondence, reports, maps, proposals, expressions of interest, specifications, consultation materials, and meeting minutes.
• Communicating and working with other project team members, including mentoring junior-level team members
• Liaising with and assisting other departments and offices in the provision of transportation planning services to clients.
• Completing work within the prescribed time and budget while maintaining high-quality

Qualifications

Minimum Requirements:

• Bachelor\'s degree or greater in Civil Engineering, Urban Planning, or a similar field with a strong emphasis on transportation planning or engineering
• 2+ years of experience in transportation planning with some experience in transit, active transportation, and/or multimodal projects
• Excellent technical writing skills and experience writing a variety of deliverable types, including technical memoranda, reports, and public-facing documents
• Strong verbal communicator, including presentation, facilitation and listening skills
• Proficient working knowledge in using ArcGIS to produce high-quality maps and complete basic network analysis
• Proficient working knowledge of Microsoft Office suite that includes Word, Excel and PowerPoint
• Experience undertaking planning studies with large data sets

Preferred Qualifications:

• Strong understanding and applying analytical outputs from transportation planning modelling tools, such as Synchro, EMME, TransCAD, VISSIM and or equivalent.
• Strong understanding of current transportation planning, policy, and infrastructure initiatives in the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area (with an emphasis on transit), land use and demographic trends in the region, and general urban planning and related policy issues
• Transit service operations and planning practices, as well as transit priority assessments
• Experience in a professional consulting environment
• Experience in transportation planning policies and infrastructure economics, including appreciation of transit service systems and revenue forecasting.
• Familiarity with public finance issues related to municipalities and provinces in Ontario and Canada, including the use of revenue tools and development charges.
• Bicycle and pedestrian infrastructure planning and design, including familiarity with established and emerging design practices locally and globally.
• Transportation demand management and parking policies

Additional Information

About AECOM

AECOM is the world\'s trusted infrastructure consulting firm, delivering professional services throughout the project lifecycle - from advisory, planning, design and engineering to program and construction management. On projects spanning transportation, buildings, water, new energy and the environment, our public- and private-sector clients trust us to solve their most complex challenges. Our teams are driven by a common purpose to deliver a better world through our unrivaled technical and digital expertise, a culture of equity, diversity and inclusion, and a commitment to environmental, social and governance priorities. AECOM is a Fortune 500 firm and its Professional Services business had revenue of $13.1 billion in fiscal year 2022. See how we are delivering sustainable legacies for generations to come at aecom.com and @AECOM.

Freedom to Grow in a World of Opportunity

You will have the flexibility you need to do your best work with hybrid work options. Whether you\'re working from an AECOM office, remote location or at a client site, you will be working in a dynamic environment where your integrity, entrepreneurial spirit and pioneering mindset are championed.

You will help us foster a culture of equity, diversity and inclusion - a safe and respectful workplace, where we invite everyone to bring their whole selves to work using their unique talents, backgrounds and expertise to create transformational outcomes for our clients.

AECOM provides a wide array of compensation and benefits programs to meet the diverse needs of our employees and their families. We also provide a robust global well-being program. We\'re the world\'s trusted global infrastructure firm, and we\'re in this together - your growth and success are ours too.

Join us, and you\'ll get all the benefits of being a part of a global, publicly traded firm - access to industry-leading technology and thinking and transformational work with big impact and work flexibility. As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person\'s potential, and we\'ll help you reach yours.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

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