Transport Planner

Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets.

We are more than 34,000 people, in over 30 countries, dedicated to improving quality of life. Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds, together we can solve the world’s 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 everyone's contribution matters. It’s 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.

You’ll do meaningful work, and no matter what role, you’ll 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.