Transportation & Traffic Engineering Manager/Project Manager

We create great places and the connections that get people and goods moving—whether by bicycle, car, bus, train, plane, or their own two feet. Working within the context of the communities we serve, we provide planning, engineering, and infrastructure management services that fit the needs of our clients and improve the overall transportation experience. Join our team and help us keep communities connected.

Your Opportunity

Imagine being part of a dynamic team that designs innovative solutions for our diverse set of clients. Our Traffic Engineering and Transportation Planning group provides comprehensive planning, design, and engineering services.

Stantec’s Ottawa office is looking for a Transportation & Traffic Engineering Manager / Project Manager. With a strong transportation/traffic engineering background to support planning, design, and construction management activities for a variety of projects, the candidate will be responsible to build & lead our transportation planning/traffic team in the Ottawa Area and the Eastern Ontario.

In this role you will be responsible for leading projects with local clients that include City of Ottawa, NCC, MTO, municipal clients and developers. You will be charged with marketing Stantec to surrounding public and private service entities to develop relationships and business opportunities, in addition to nurturing and building a team of traffic and planning professionals.

The ideal candidate will be expected to provide leadership, direction, and guidance to ensure that quality management, design and technical services are provided to clients and that performance targets are met. With a working knowledge of all engineering disciplines related for transportation projects, the successful candidate will use experience and judgment to solve problems for a wide range of private and public sector clients. You will be highly proactive, have excellent technical writing skills, and have extensive knowledge of the concepts of transportation planning, transportation modelling and traffic engineering. Come join our Transportation Roadways Team and work alongside others who share your passion to support communities through exciting and unique roadway projects.

Your Key Responsibilities

• Coordinating and managing Traffic Engineering and Transportation Planning projects in Eastern Ontario and Ottawa.
• Providing overall work management and technical performance on transportation engineering projects to ensure that timelines and targets are being met.
• Providing technical leadership and leading teams in the development of transportation planning projects and traffic engineering scope on projects.
• Coordinating with other design disciplines, offices, and staff.
• Preparing letters, technical memorandums, reports, exhibits, graphics, and drawings to clearly present information to internal and external groups, clients, and industry peers.
• Working with and presenting to our clients and the public on our portfolio of projects.
• Ability to lead and/or provide input to business development efforts including the development of proposals, budgets and schedules.
• Maintaining existing client relationships and identify and participate in the acquisition of new clients and work.
• Strong understanding of project management principles.
• Providing mentorship, guidance, quality control, support and oversight of junior and intermediate staff to complete various traffic engineering and transportation planning tasks.
• Other duties as assigned.