All Things Urban

We're active members of the communities we serve. That's why at Stantec, we always design with community in mind. The Stantec community unites approximately 22,000 employees working in over 400 locations across six continents. We collaborate across disciplines and industries to bring buildings, energy and resource, environmental, and infrastructure projects to life. Our work—engineering, architecture, interior design, landscape architecture, surveying, environmental sciences, project management, and project economics, from initial project concept and planning through design, construction, and commissioning—begins at the intersection of community, creativity, and client relationships.

Join Stantec’s growing Urban Places Mobility Group to help us create the 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. Housed within Stantec’s “Urban Places” initiative, we work closely with our architecture, planning, transit, engineering, environmental, landscape architecture, real estate development, smart city, transportation and other colleagues across the firm. Our work helps 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. The opportunities within a large company like Stantec are boundless, and we are excited to continue growing our Mobility Group with the right candidate. Stantec's Community Development group has an opportunity for a highly motivated Transportation Planning Intern/Co-op to join their team in Boston, MA. As an Intern, you will support our 11 person team, performing a variety of tasks which may include mapping, document and presentation creation, and field work. The projects that an intern/Co-op may be assigned to may be broad, varied and diverse in scope. From local to national projects related to parking, transportation demand management, transit, transportation master plans, and private development, our project list is broad. This is a terrific opportunity for a college student to support a few exciting local and national projects.

- Support a project team in development of maps, presentations, graphics, and reports, for relevant project elements. - Perform transportation-related analyses within programs such as Microsoft Excel and ArcGIS - Conduct research on parking, transit, and multimodal issues and trends for project work - Assist team with administrative and organizational work, including researching new opportunities - Attend meetings by phone and in person and take notes, including translating those to client-ready products such as meeting minutes - Tasks will require a proficiency in some or all of the following: ArcGIS, the Adobe Creative Suite (Illustrator, InDesign, and Photoshop), and the Microsoft Office Suite (Excel, Word, and PowerPoint).

- Enthusiastic and motivated to learn and develop technical skills related to transportation planning - Strong interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills - Experience with the production of planning reports and documents - Additional experience with graphics (Illustrator, InDesign, SketchUp) and mapping/database analysis using ArcGIS programs - The ability to work in downtown Boston - In progress toward earning a Bachelor's degree (minimum) or Master’s in Transportation, Urban Planning, Architecture, Landscape Architecture, or a related field

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