At Fehr & Peers, we are a diverse group of individuals with one thing in common—a passion for transportation. We highly value that same passion in candidates for our team. Our Entry-Level Engineers and Planners may expect to build a career foundation through a wide variety of experiences. Our emphasis on the early development of project management and technical skills provides the tools for success as well as a foundation for increasing career growth. These opportunities for personal and professional growth are maximized through experience in both planning and engineering project work and by exposure to a multitude of project types and tasks, including the following:
- Transportation impact studies
- Bicycle and pedestrian planning
- Access, circulation, and parking studies
- Multimodal operations assessments
- Complete streets planning, operations, and design
- Cost estimates and project specifications
- Transit forecasting and operations
- Travel behavior forecasting
- Vehicle miles of travel (VMT) assessments
- Systemic safety studies
- Highway interchange/corridor studies
- Climate action plans
- Freight planning
- Transportation demand management (TDM) plans
- Design drawings from the conceptual stage all the way to construction-ready documents, including the following:
- Bikeways/complete streets
- Signing and striping
- Traffic signals/ITS
- Street lighting
- Roundabouts
- Temporary traffic control
Please review the responsibilities below.
Ongoing:
- Conduct transportation analysis and write reports
- Participate in meetings, including preparing presentations and public outreach materials
- Handle project management responsibilities
- Participate in professional organizations
- Conduct site visits and collect field data
- Explore the Fehr & Peers internal Research and Development program
By the end of the first month:
- Participate in on-the-job training and mentoring
- Work on a few different projects
- Seek additional work from project managers
By the end of six months:
- Work on a variety of projects with most staff in the office
- Use several technical software programs
- Prepare deliverables, including memos, reports, and presentations
By the end of the first year:
- Attend multiple client meetings
- Increase responsibility for managing small projects
Qualifications (We encourage all applicants to apply, even if you don't meet all of the qualifications listed below)
- An entrepreneurial spirit and proactive approach to communication and getting work done
- Genuine curiosity for the work and familiarity with the challenges of day-to-day travel within your community
- Completed bachelor’s or in-progress master’s degree in transportation, civil or electrical engineering, urban and regional planning, or a related major (e.g., geography, math, statistics, economics)
- Coursework in transportation, engineering, urban and regional planning, geography, math, statistics, economics, or other related courses (an EIT for engineering candidates is preferred)
- Experience or exposure related to the following topic areas (note that experience in all these areas is not required) Topic Areas: Field work, traffic operations analysis, signal design, transportation planning (e.g., bicycle or transit plans, infrastructure finance, transportation and land use policy, and/or travel demand modeling)
- Experience or exposure to relevant software (note that experience with all software is not required). General–Microsoft Excel, GIS (ArcGIS, QGIS), and/or CAD (AutoCAD, Microstation). Traffic Operations Analysis–HCS, Synchro/SimTraffic, Vistro, VISSIM, and/or Sidra. Travel Demand Modeling–Cube/Voyager, TransCAD, VISUM, and/or Emme. Programming–Python and/or R.
- Previous work experience in an office setting related to a topic area listed above
- Experience with technical writing and public speaking through school and/or work experience
- Interpersonal skills, a desire to collaborate, and a creative approach to problem-solving
- Organizational skills and the ability to balance priorities between multiple tasks within a defined timeline
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