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Planning Intern - Summer 2025 - ( 250001M0 )
Description
Join Stantec’s growing Urban Places Mobility Group to help us create bicycle, walking, transit, and emerging mobility networks that serve the most livable, prosperous, sustainable, resilient, and equitable urban and urbanizing places in North America. We are an interdisciplinary, cross-continental team of leading transportation planners building a boutique practice with the full complement of resources of a global consulting firm.
We work closely with our architecture, planning, transit, engineering, environmental, landscape architecture, real estate development, smart city, transportation and other colleagues across Stantec to help a diverse range of public and private clients realize the full range of benefits that flow from dense, walkable downtowns, neighborhoods, and corridors. Driven by data, innovation, and grounded in real world applications, our plans inspire people. Our Mobility Group team helps define and create the places, networks and infrastructure that connect people to prosperity, and to each other.
Your Opportunity
Stantec is seeking a creative, capable, and motivated junior transportation planner to support its Urban Places Mobility Group in Boston. The preferred candidate will support the group’s growing local and national practice and work directly with industry-leading multimodal transportation planners across North America. Candidates must be willing to travel and ideally have a valid driver’s license. The ideal candidate will possess excellent writing, numerical and critical thinking skills, have experience with ArcGIS and the Adobe Suite, and some graphic design experience would be a plus. Above all, the successful candidate will be highly self-motivated and curious, have a friendly, outgoing demeanor, and be able to multitask in a fast-moving environment.
Your Key Responsibilities
The role of the Transportation Planner will be to work independently and as a member of a multi-disciplinary team on transportation projects of various sizes and complexities. The candidate should have a working understanding of multimodal transportation processes, analysis, and methodology. The successful candidate should have a range of skills, as work will regularly include the following tasks in support of the range of projects described above:
Your Capabilities and Credentials
Stantec is a place where the best and brightest come to build on each other’s talents, do exciting work, and make an impact on the world around us. Join us and redefine your personal best.
Benefits Summary: Regular full-time and part-time employees have access to medical, dental, and vision plans, a wellness program, health saving accounts, flexible spending accounts, 401(k) plan, employee stock purchase program, life and accidental death & dismemberment (AD&D) insurance, short-term/long-term disability plans, emergency travel benefits, tuition reimbursement, professional membership fee coverage and paid family leave. Regular full-time and part-time employees will receive ten paid holidays in each calendar year. In addition, employees will be eligible to accrue vacation between 10 and 20 days per year and eligible for paid sick leave (and if more generous, in accordance with state and local law).
Temporary/casual employees have access to 401(k) plans, employee stock purchase program, and paid leave, in accordance with state and local law.
The benefits information listed above may not apply to union positions because benefits for such positions are governed by applicable collective bargaining agreements.
Primary Location : United States-Massachusetts-Boston
Organization : BC-2104 CommDev-US Northeast
Employee Status : Temporary
Job Level : Entry Level
Travel : No
Schedule : Full-time
Job Posting : Apr 21, 2025, 2:04:56 PM
Req ID: 250001M0
Stantec provides equal employment opportunities to all qualified employees and applicants for future and current employment and prohibit discrimination on the grounds of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, marital status, genetic information, disability, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression. We prohibit discrimination in decisions concerning recruitment, hiring, referral, promotion, compensation, fringe benefits, job training, terminations or any other condition of employment. Stantec is in compliance with local, state and federal laws and regulations and ensures equitable opportunities in all aspects of employment. EEO including Disability/Protected Veterans
Description
Join Stantec’s growing Urban Places Mobility Group to help us create bicycle, walking, transit, and emerging mobility networks that serve the most livable, prosperous, sustainable, resilient, and equitable urban and urbanizing places in North America. We are an interdisciplinary, cross-continental team of leading transportation planners building a boutique practice with the full complement of resources of a global consulting firm.
We work closely with our architecture, planning, transit, engineering, environmental, landscape architecture, real estate development, smart city, transportation and other colleagues across Stantec to help a diverse range of public and private clients realize the full range of benefits that flow from dense, walkable downtowns, neighborhoods, and corridors. Driven by data, innovation, and grounded in real world applications, our plans inspire people. Our Mobility Group team helps define and create the places, networks and infrastructure that connect people to prosperity, and to each other.
Your Opportunity
Stantec is seeking a creative, capable, and motivated junior transportation planner to support its Urban Places Mobility Group in Boston. The preferred candidate will support the group’s growing local and national practice and work directly with industry-leading multimodal transportation planners across North America. Candidates must be willing to travel and ideally have a valid driver’s license. The ideal candidate will possess excellent writing, numerical and critical thinking skills, have experience with ArcGIS and the Adobe Suite, and some graphic design experience would be a plus. Above all, the successful candidate will be highly self-motivated and curious, have a friendly, outgoing demeanor, and be able to multitask in a fast-moving environment.
Your Key Responsibilities
The role of the Transportation Planner will be to work independently and as a member of a multi-disciplinary team on transportation projects of various sizes and complexities. The candidate should have a working understanding of multimodal transportation processes, analysis, and methodology. The successful candidate should have a range of skills, as work will regularly include the following tasks in support of the range of projects described above:
- Conducting research and providing summaries of findings
- Data collection in field and field observations
- A working knowledge of US Census Data and the American Community Survey, as well as other publicly available demographic, transit, bicycle, and transportation databases
- Working with and analyzing large data sets using spreadsheets (Excel, R, etc.)
- GIS analysis and mapping/cartography
- Preparation of slides and presentation materials
- Development of graphics using Adobe Illustrator
- Attending client and public meetings
- Preparation of marketing materials
- Report writing and production in Microsoft Office and Adobe InDesign
- Administrative and organizational work
Your Capabilities and Credentials
- Excellent skills in writing, data analysis, and problem solving
- Strong communications skills--verbal, written, and especially graphic
- Proficiency with Microsoft Excel, Word, and PowerPoint
- Experience with the production of planning reports and documents
- Experience with GIS map production, data analysis, and data management (ArcMap, ArcPro)
- A thorough knowledge and familiarity with the Adobe Creative Suite is desirable
- Additional experience with graphics (Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop, SketchUp) or traffic modeling (Synchro) will be considered favorably
- Ability to work independently and as part of a team in a fast-paced environment
- Demonstrated responsibility, maturity, and commitment to a team driven environment
- The ability to be located in Boston
- Willingness to travel as needed
- A graduate degree in Transportation, Urban Design, Planning, Architecture, Landscape Architecture, or a related field and/or one to four years of relevant experience.
Stantec is a place where the best and brightest come to build on each other’s talents, do exciting work, and make an impact on the world around us. Join us and redefine your personal best.
Benefits Summary: Regular full-time and part-time employees have access to medical, dental, and vision plans, a wellness program, health saving accounts, flexible spending accounts, 401(k) plan, employee stock purchase program, life and accidental death & dismemberment (AD&D) insurance, short-term/long-term disability plans, emergency travel benefits, tuition reimbursement, professional membership fee coverage and paid family leave. Regular full-time and part-time employees will receive ten paid holidays in each calendar year. In addition, employees will be eligible to accrue vacation between 10 and 20 days per year and eligible for paid sick leave (and if more generous, in accordance with state and local law).
Temporary/casual employees have access to 401(k) plans, employee stock purchase program, and paid leave, in accordance with state and local law.
The benefits information listed above may not apply to union positions because benefits for such positions are governed by applicable collective bargaining agreements.
Primary Location : United States-Massachusetts-Boston
Organization : BC-2104 CommDev-US Northeast
Employee Status : Temporary
Job Level : Entry Level
Travel : No
Schedule : Full-time
Job Posting : Apr 21, 2025, 2:04:56 PM
Req ID: 250001M0
Stantec provides equal employment opportunities to all qualified employees and applicants for future and current employment and prohibit discrimination on the grounds of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, marital status, genetic information, disability, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression. We prohibit discrimination in decisions concerning recruitment, hiring, referral, promotion, compensation, fringe benefits, job training, terminations or any other condition of employment. Stantec is in compliance with local, state and federal laws and regulations and ensures equitable opportunities in all aspects of employment. EEO including Disability/Protected Veterans
