Graduate Transportation Planner

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Graduate Transportation Planning Engineer positions available in 2012

Start your career at Arup, a top-listed engineering firm in the Building Design & Construction Magazine’s “Best AEC Firms to Work For” . . . FROM THE START, a newly-graduated engineer receives:

• Substantial Engineering Work Assignments

• A Training Plan for Accelerated Professional Growth

• Work Opportunities That Acknowledge Ability, Not Seat-Time

• Full Membership in a Global Network of Experts

As part of our global engineering and design firm, you’ll have the chance to engage in a fulfilling career and work with some of the most highly respected engineers and specialists in the world. You’ll also get the opportunity to work on exciting and significant projects and deliver quality work that has a positive and lasting influence on the community and the environment. 

Perhaps that’s why 90% of staff know that their own work has a positive impact on the success of the firm, why 70% of our projects are repeat business (often with world-class architects) and why Arup consistently remains in the Engineering News Record Rankings of the “Top 25 International Design Firms to Work For”.

We look for talented individuals who exhibit exceptional technical skill and also have personal characteristics that will help to propagate the long term Arup values of:

• Quality of Work

• Holistic Approach

• Humane Organization

• Straight and Honorable Dealings

• Social Usefulness

• Reasonable Prosperity of Members

As a Graduate Transportation Planning Engineer, you will learn and apply the following:

• Conducting background research on specific locations, strategies or policies

• Data collection and analysis

• Completing and documenting technical analyses

• Report writing

• Attending team, consultant and client meetings

• Working with people from other disciplines to gain knowledge on new subjects.

Required:

• Bachelor Degree in Urban Planning or Civil Engineering with a concentration in transportation

• Coursework in transportation planning and/or engineering

• Relevant intern and/or research experience

• Proven interest in the field of transportation planning

• Good time management habits, ability to multi-task, ability to sustain focus on long tasks

• Ability to communicate thoughts and ideas in an accessible way

• Attitude of taking initiative, enthusiasm, eagerness to learn, teamwork, creativity.

Preferred:

• 3.5 GPA or higher, Master’s or Dual Master’s degree, membership in at least one relevant professional organization

• Significant thesis, class project or studio work related to urban transportation planning, transportation engineering analysis, sustainability, and or transportation land use interface

• Internship with transportation consulting firm or major transportation agency

• Evidence of past internship or extracurricular activity in the field

• Proven ability to perform in a paid work environment with intermittent supervision

• Past history of presentations and technical writing

• Evidence of personal investment in academic or extracurricular field.

To understand why 93% of our staff say they are proud to work for Arup, one only needs to look at the talents and qualities that we seek out and then intentionally grow. Through a two-year skill-building period of on-the-job training in engineering analysis, supervised design of parts of real projects, responsibility for production of selected drawings and report content, in-house courses in multi-disciplinary design, and project site visits, the graduate engineer quickly becomes an essential part of the delivery team.

Arup is proud to be an equal opportunity employer.

Job ID: 740608