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About Steer

At Steer North America, we help shape the future of mobility, cities, and infrastructure. Our work supports more connected, sustainable, and accessible transportation systems that improve how people live, work, and travel.

Steer is an employee-owned international consultancy specializing in transportation and infrastructure. We combine global expertise with local insight to help public and private sector clients tackle complex mobility challenges and make better decisions about how people and goods move.

Our teams advise governments, transit agencies, airports, infrastructure investors, and private mobility operators across strategy, advisory, planning, and operations. From major transit investments to airport development and emerging mobility solutions, our work influences transportation systems relied on by millions.

What defines Steer is our people - curious thinkers, collaborative problem solvers, and changemakers who care about the communities we serve. Joining Steer means working on meaningful projects, contributing ideas that matter, and building a career with real impact.

About the role

Steer North America is looking for a motivated, self-starting, problem-solver and collaborative professional to fill our Transportation Planner position in the Planning and Design team, which has contributed to our company's ongoing success in the United States, Canada, and beyond. You should have a background in project management and behavior change analysis, including market segmentation analysis and stated preference surveys, in order to support teams and projects across Steer.

You will be a contributing member of Steer's North American teams which is comprised of planners, economists, designers, financial modellers and technical specialists. In combination, these disciplines provide us with the breadth and depth to deliver innovative and impactful solutions to our diverse clients.

The Transportation Planner will:

• Work alongside colleagues to conceptualize, develop, and deliver on new and existing client projects, including in multimodal planning, regional planning, TDM, and equitable and sustainable mobility.: Some examples of the kinds of projects that you may be involved in:
• Identifying transit needs and prioritizing investment across California's state highway system
• Creating a Smart City Strategic Plan for the Southern California region
• Determining service options for new BRT routes across New Jersey
• Examining the economic impact of rail on economically distressed regions
• Reviewing and revising internal program requirements for major transit agencies
• Manage their own work, and the work of others, to budget and quality expectations
• Support Steer's Planning & Design practice via client engagement, work winning, and proposal development
• Serve as an in-house resource in the areas of behavior change analysis
• Mentor and support early career professionals

To review our portfolio of recent projects, visit Our projects | Steer (steergroup.com).

Requirements

About the candidate

At Steer, our employees are self-motivated, goal-oriented, and adaptive. Steer commits itself to providing our clients with the utmost quality of strategic and innovative advice on some of the world's largest transportation and infrastructure projects.

The ideal candidate for this role has:

• 5-10 years' relevant experience in the transportation or planning sector, through consultancy or public sector work;
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent, Master's degree preferred
• Experience developing successful proposals for public sector requests (including EOIs, RFQs, and RFPs);
• The ability to work autonomously yet collaboratively with colleagues and our clients in a fast-paced environment;
• An existing right to work in the United States or Canada;
• Knowledge & Experience:
• Ability to provide technical leadership across multiple disciplines or skills, such as: strategic planning for public sector transportation agencies; multimodal planning, governance and public policy development, business case development, and data analysis and visualization
• Experience with one or more complex transportation models and related analytical tools, such as GIS, EMME, TransCAD, R, Python or similar; as well as visualisation tools such as Illustrator, InDesign, Tableau, Power BI or similar
• Successfully led or had a lead role on transportation planning and policy projects;
• Proven experience with behavioural change analysis tools and concepts commonly used in the transportation industry, such as market segmentation and stated preference surveys;
• Capabilities
• Effective consulting skills: listening and clarifying client problems, understanding project scope, managing time and resources, ensuring margins;
• Effective communication skills: distilling your work in a succinct and compelling manner both verbally (written/oral) and graphically (graphs, flow charts, infographics);
• Experience working on projects that emphasize decision making, governance, and policy development;
• Experience with public sector clients, including major agencies or ministries related to transportation, housing, land use, energy, and community and economic development;
• Project and team management skills - including utilization planning, task allocation, and commercial management of consulting projects;

Benefits

How You'll Grow

Whether you join immediately after graduation, or as a senior leader, Steer is committed to helping you grow your career in ways that add to your breadth of experience on a variety of projects, the depth of your technical skills with clients, your client and project management knowledge, and your leadership awareness and practice.

Benefits That Support You

We believe that supporting our people is essential to delivering great work. Our benefits are designed to support your health, wellbeing, financial security, and professional growth. An important part of this is a commitment to a flexible, hybrid working environment.

Our benefits include:

• Excellent medical, dental, and vision coverage
• 3% 401(k)/RRSP contribution
• Discretionary annual bonus
• Generous paid time off including vacation, public holidays, sick time, and volunteering days- up to 44 days (US) and 47 days (Canada) annually
• Group Share Incentive Plan, providing employees with the opportunity to share in the long-term success of the firm
• Commuter benefits (US)

Salary range for this role is 80,000 - 108,000.

Be advised that this is an estimated benchmark salary of good faith. All compensation, regardless of location, may be subject to change as skills, abilities, and internal equity are considered. In addition to base salary, all employees will be eligible for an annual discretionary performance bonus. Steer reserves the right to ultimately pay more or less than the posted range and offer additional compensation.

Why People Choose Steer

Our people join Steer because they want to do meaningful work in a collaborative and intellectually curious environment.  At Steer you'll find:

• A culture that values collaboration, where you can work in partnership with teammates from around the world
• Projects that create tangible improvements in how people move and connect, impacting the daily lives of millions of people
• Expert colleagues who are passionate about the future of mobility and cities
• The flexibility to build your professional skills and a consulting practice in a way that matches your ambition

Our Commitment to Fairness & Inclusion

At Steer, everyone is valued for their talent, curiosity, and potential. We recruit based on capability - not background or pedigree - and our interviewers are trained to run fair and inclusive processes that give every candidate an equitable opportunity to succeed.

We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer and welcome applicants from all legally protected backgrounds. We provide accommodations throughout the hiring process and during employment to ensure everyone can participate fully.