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Job Description:

Senior Transportation Engineer – Halifax

Parsons has been a leader in the planning, design, and delivery of transportation infrastructure across the world for more than 75 years. Our Canada team is looking for an experienced senior transportation engineer to add to our growing team in Halifax. Our team is focused on helping our municipal and provincial clients expand and improve their transportation systems through innovative and transformative solutions.

Position Overview:

The Senior Transportation Engineer will play a pivotal role in advancing the growth of our practice by providing leadership and expertise to our Halifax team. You will contribute to Parsons’ projects, including the study, planning, and functional/preliminary design of transportation infrastructure. The project focus may include complete streets, arterial roads, highways, transit and rapid transit facilities, active transportation facilities, and other systems related to transportation. Projects may be municipal, provincial, federal, or private in nature, or delivered through alternative means. There will also be opportunities to progress projects to preliminary and detailed design, tender, and construction. Your projects will implement our celebrated Parsons complete streets and transit-oriented design approaches and will transform the communities where they are located across the Atlantic Provinces and beyond.

Responsibilities:

• Stay informed of trends in transportation planning and infrastructure and current and potential future consulting opportunities.

• Perform multi-modal and comprehensive traffic operations analyses using state-of-the-art analysis software applications in support of transportation studies and infrastructure design projects.

• Prepare letters, technical memorandums, reports, exhibits, graphics, and drawings to clearly present information to internal and external groups, clients, and industry peers.

• Recommend preferred plans and designs and provide technical rationales.

• Identify and evaluate alternative planning and engineering solutions to infrastructure challenges/opportunities.

• Manage, coach, motivate, and provide leadership for staff to deliver high-quality services and innovative solutions to complex planning and design challenges involving multiple stakeholders.

• Manage or coordinate the work of other subject matter experts and firms and work within the Parsons collaborative team environment, including daily support from our transportation teams in Ottawa and the Greater Toronto Region.

• Manage or assist in the preparation of consulting team proposals and regularly enjoy the thrill of winning.

• Champion Parsons’ support for new technologies, trends, and advancements in the transportation planning field to retain technical competency and provide state-of-the-art services and advice to our clients.

• Represent Parsons at professional association events, design standards workshops, and conferences.

• Present your team’s award-winning projects at local, provincial, national, and international conferences.

 

Requirements:

• University degree in Civil Engineering with a transportation focus is required. Relevant Master’s degrees or post-graduate certificates are not required but are highly valued.

• Professional registration as an Engineer.

• 10+ years of transportation engineering experience.

• Experience in leading or developing plans and/or designs for urban transportation corridors.

• Experience in leading multi-discipline teams, including the coordination of sub-consultant assignments.

• Knowledge of national, provincial and municipal processes, policies, guidelines and standards related to transportation engineering and evolving industry trends.

• Participation in the Institute of Transportation Engineers, Transportation Association of Canada, or other relevant industry organizations.

Minimum Clearance Required to Start:

Not Applicable/None

This position is part of our Critical Infrastructure team.

For more than 80 years, our experts have designed and delivered the critical infrastructure that connects and protects communities around the world. We work in collaborative teams, both within the company and with our partners and customers, to plan, design, build, and modernize infrastructure. We take special pride in projects and solutions that improve communities as well as people’s quality of life by promoting economic growth, enhancing mobility, and increasing sustainability and resiliency. Powered by our people, we provide the imagination necessary to support our customers’ visions—and to help them see what's next!

We value our employees and want our employees to take care of their overall wellbeing, which is why we offer best-in-class benefits such as health, vision, dental, employer paid provincial care premiums, Defined Contribution Pension Plan (DCPP), Tax-Free Savings Account (TFSA), Registered Retirement Savings Plan (RRSP), life insurance, paid time off, sick leave, all province observed holidays off, and gym membership discounts to fit your busy lifestyle!

Parsons is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility in the workplace. Parsons equally employs representation at all job levels for indigenous peoples, women, individuals with disabilities, and visible minorities.

We truly invest and care about our employee’s wellbeing and provide endless growth opportunities as the sky is the limit, so aim for the stars! Imagine next and join the Parsons quest—APPLY TODAY!

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