Transportation Planning Engineer

The Opportunity

McElhanney is looking for a Transportation Planning Engineer to join our growing Kamloops team.

In this role, you’ll bring your 5+ years of transportation planning and modelling experience to a range of projects for municipal and public-sector clients, from traffic modelling and impact studies to corridor and multimodal planning. As part of our multidisciplinary Kamloops branch, you’ll collaborate with professionals across engineering, surveying, planning, and environmental disciplines, while building your technical, project management, and client-facing skills. You’ll also have access to McElhanney’s broader expertise across Western Canada.

This is a Kamloops-based role where you’ll work directly with clients, contribute to projects that support local communities, and take on increasing ownership as your experience grows.

The role is not fully remote and requires regular collaboration with the local team, client meetings, and project activities.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Lead and support transportation planning projects for clients, ensuring quality and timely delivery.
• Perform advanced traffic modelling and simulation using industry-standard software such as Synchro, VISSIM, EMME, or similar.
• Develop and review transportation impact studies, corridor analyses, and multimodal planning reports.
• Collect, analyze, and interpret traffic and travel demand data to inform project recommendations.
• Coordinate directly with clients, presenting findings and guiding decision-making processes.
• Prepare and deliver technical documentation, presentations, and visualizations for client meetings and public consultations.
• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to junior engineers, planners, and technical staff.

Contribute to strategic initiatives such as congestion management, safety improvements, and sustainable mobility planning.

Qualifications

What You’ll Bring

• Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering, Transportation Engineering, Urban Planning, or a related discipline.
• Professional Engineer (P.Eng.) designation in good standing, or eligibility for registration in British Columbia.
• Minimum of 5 years of experience in transportation planning and traffic modelling.
• Demonstrated experience working directly with municipal clients and multidisciplinary project teams.
• Proficiency with multiple transportation planning and traffic modelling software such as Synchro, HCS, SIDRA, VISSIM, EMME, VISUM, or similar platforms is required.
• Experience managing tasks independently and coordinating with multidisciplinary teams.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills.
• Experience mentoring junior staff is considered an asset.