Stantec
Transportation Engineer/Modeler
Stantec, New York, NY
We create the connections that get people and goods moving-whether by car, automated, connected, or electric vehicles, bus, train, plane, bike, or their own two feet. You will have the opportunity to learn, and work on exciting, multi-faceted projects and grow your career. Our team has a passion for the work they do, and we are looking for candidates with a similar passion. With a unique multidisciplinary team approach, we are equipped with state-of-the-art survey tools, simulation models, specialized design software, and computer-aided design. The ongoing success of our team allows you to set the pace of your career.
Your Opportunity
Stantec is looking for a Transportation Engineer/Modeler with minimum of 5 years of transportation engineering or planning experience to join our multidisciplinary team based in our New York City, NY office. We believe training, collaboration, and connections are strengthened by working alongside team members. This is a flexible/hybrid position with a minimum of 3 days a week in the office.
Your Key Responsibilities
Your Capabilities and Credentials
Education and Experience
This description is not a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that may be required of the employee and other duties, responsibilities and activities may be assigned or may be changed at any time with or without notice.
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.
Your Opportunity
Stantec is looking for a Transportation Engineer/Modeler with minimum of 5 years of transportation engineering or planning experience to join our multidisciplinary team based in our New York City, NY office. We believe training, collaboration, and connections are strengthened by working alongside team members. This is a flexible/hybrid position with a minimum of 3 days a week in the office.
Your Key Responsibilities
- Performing transportation planning studies, traffic impact studies, traffic operations analysis, speed studies, and toll road feasibility studies
- Developing travel demand models, including model preparation, calibration and analysis of results
- Conduct microsimulation modeling, mesoscopic modeling, dynamic traffic assignments of large-scale networks
- Assisting with and developing traffic data collection plans and data analysis
- Training and delegating tasks to junior engineers on projects
- Presenting results to the clients and manage project documentation
- Preparation of technical memoranda and reports
Your Capabilities and Credentials
- Understanding of fundamentals in travel demand modeling including advanced practices
- Experience working with activity-based and trip-based travel demand forecasting models
- Experience with model calibration and validation is strongly desired
- Experience with travel demand modeling tools like Aimsun, EMME, Cube, TransCAD is desired, including cross-platform data manipulation techniques
- Ability to use large passive data to understand and model travel behavior
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with an ability to interpret technical findings and share them with non-technical audiences
- Ability to work independently and as part of a team
- Experience with computer programming (such as R, and Python)
- Experience with geographic data analysis using GIS
- Ability to assist with proposal development and project management
- Experience in transportation planning projects with both public and private sector
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills (both written and verbal), strong presentation skills, especially to clients and peers is preferred
- Ability to work on multiple assignments concurrently
- Ability to mentor and delegate tasks to junior engineers
- Strong familiarity with standard business software (Excel, Word, and PowerPoint).
Education and Experience
- Bachelor of Science (B.S.) degree in Civil Engineering, Transportation Engineering, Transportation Planning, City and Regional Planning, Operations Research, or related discipline
- A masters' degree is preferred
- Minimum 5 years' work experience in transportation engineering, modeling or planning and/or project management
This description is not a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that may be required of the employee and other duties, responsibilities and activities may be assigned or may be changed at any time with or without notice.
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.