Job Description
A career in transportation is more than bridges, roads, and rail. As we plan, design, and manage projects that move people and goods from Point A to Point B, we create connections that transform our communities. Every airport, road, bridge, port, or transit project is an opportunity to make communities safer, cleaner, and more resilient. Together, we’re making an impact around the world.
If you’re looking for a career that moves, join our team of professionals who are passionate about the future of transportation.
Your Opportunity
Stantec is seeking an experienced Transportation Planner with a traffic and safety focus to join our growing Tennessee transportation team. This position may be based in our Nashville or Chattanooga, Tennessee offices.
We seek a team player who desires a highly collaborative work environment, has excellent client and communication skills, and strong design capabilities. We seek a candidate with expertise in transportation planning and engineering studies, including expressways, corridors and intersection studies, traffic forecasting, operational analysis, and safety analysis.
The ideal candidate will have both a passion for improving the safety of transportation facilities and optimizing the flow of traffic. Opportunities for advancement include leadership and/or project management courses, business development involvement, and delegation of responsibilities to traffic engineering staff.
The Transportation Planner will work independently on smaller projects, and as a team member of a larger project under the guidance of transportation sector leadership, which includes the leaders of our Traffic Engineering and Transportation Planning (TPTE) and Roadway Design groups. You will have the opportunity to work on a variety of transportation projects including Safe Streets for All studies, transportation planning studies, traffic engineering studies, and highway/corridor/intersection improvement projects from conceptual through final design.
Your Key Responsibilities
* Support delivery of key client contracts including Nashville DOT Engineering On\-Call, TDOT Data Management On\-Call, TDOT Traffic Signal and Roadway Lighting On\-Call, and TDOT Transportation Planning On\-Call.
* Perform safety\-related services, such as compilation of existing crash data, multidisciplinary field reviews, review of crash data to determine potential causes, recommendation of crash countermeasures, use of Highway Safety Manual methodologies, and economic benefit\-cost analyses of such safety improvements.
* Conduct multi\-modal transportation analyses, including traffic, bike/ped, and freight, using Complete Streets practices for our most vulnerable road users.
* Work with a variety of analysis software programs effectively, including some or all of the following: CUBE/Voyager, TransCAD, VISUM, ArcGIS, Python, AASHTOWare Safety, IHSDM, HSM worksheets, CAP\-X, and TDOT’s IIE Tool.
* Work with a suite of Microsoft products including...