Senior Transportation Functional Planner

At Jacobs, we're challenging today to reinvent tomorrow by solving the world's most critical problems for thriving cities, resilient environments, mission-critical outcomes, operational advancement, scientific discovery and cutting-edge manufacturing, turning abstract ideas into realities that transform the world for good.

Your impact

We are looking for an enthusiastic
Senior Transportation Functional Planner / Designe
r who thrives on providing innovative mobility solutions. You'll be working on exciting and engaging transportation projects for our public sector clients across Canada. You'll be working in a hybrid arrangement from home and from one of our offices (Burnaby, Toronto, Ottawa or Calgary), with the expectation of occasional travel for client meetings and team meetings.

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to

• Lead/contribute to transportation/transit conceptual and functional design projects including project scoping
• Coordinate with local authorities, transit agencies, and other stakeholders to ensure project alignment and support.
• Generate alternative design options, and provide technical assessment of option costs and benefits
• Facilitate discussions with agency stakeholders on design tradeoffs for multimodal users
• Develop sketch-level concepts and direct the work of CAD designers
• Provide QA/QC in accordance with municipal/ regional/ provincial/ federal guidelines and standards
• Stay up-to-date with industry trends, best practices, and emerging technologies to identify opportunities, challenges, and risks for clients
• Represent Jacobs at industry events (conferences, webinars, etc.)
• Client relationship building and maintenance. Positioning Jacobs through early game and end game proposal development to secure new work.

Here's what you'll need

• Bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering with a Transportation focus
• Licensed P.Eng. (or ability to secure such designation within 6 months)
• 10+ years of relevant work experience in transportation (public or private sectors)
• Planning, design, and management experience in several of the following transportation areas functional design of multi-modal streets and intersections including accommodation for pedestrians, bicycles, micromobility modes, transit vehicles, and trucks
• Project evaluation experience including multiple account evaluation (MAE), business case development, benefit-cost analysis
• Strong communication, time management, writing (reports, proposals) in collaborative team Environment and self-directed
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications
• Knowledge of road safety concepts, including collision modification factors for design improvements.

Ideally you'll also have

• Proficiency in design software AutoCAD, Microstation, AutoTURN, Bluebeam, Projectwise
• Experience in design across project lifecycle preliminary, conceptual, functional, detailed, O&M
• Familiarity with AT, BC MOTT, MTO, etc. guidelines and standards
• Familiarity with AB, BC, ON transportation project development processes
• Advanced technical writing abilities and acumen for data visualization and production of compelling graphics
• Excellent communication and organizational skills
• Empathy, self-awareness, and willingness to build career intentionally
• Passion for mentoring and empowering staff
• Existing effective relationships with clients, and demonstrated ability to build/foster new relationships

Posted Salary Range Minimum

130,700.00

Posted Salary Range Upper

197,670.00

We value collaboration and believe that in-person interactions are crucial for both our culture and client delivery. We empower employees with our hybrid working policy, allowing them to split their work week between Jacobs offices/projects and remote locations enabling them to deliver their best work.

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