Planning Associate I Jobs

Department: Planning

Employment Type: Full Time

Location: Ottawa, ON

Reporting To: Kate Whitfield

Compensation: $90,000 - $105,000 / year

Description

Alta Planning + Design, Canada - Inc seeks a Planning Associate for our Ottawa, Ontario office. This senior-level position is a great opportunity for someone who believes in the importance of active, multimodal, and sustainable transportation and who is interested in growing their career as a transportation planning professional. If you are looking to join an innovative organization and do work that connects people to places while advancing social justice, safety, and environmental resilience, apply with Alta today!

About Alta

Alta Planning + Design (APD) is a sustainable transportation company dedicated to creating active, healthy communities through planning, landscape architecture, engineering, and education/encouragement programs. APD was founded in 1996 when communities were calling for safer streets for people walking and cycling as the non-motorized transportation movement developed into a profession in the United States. We pioneered the field of active transportation, evolving our planning and design work into a visionary global practice that empowers people to live active, healthy lives and gets them to where they need to go.

Our core values and work bring about positive change by creating places that are geared toward moving people rather than cars, connecting community members to daily needs and human experience, and empowering every person to live an active healthy life. As a global leader in mobility innovation for over 26 years with 180 staff and 22 offices, we are dedicated to connecting people to places by working across disciplines and scale to address social justice, safety, and environmental resilience. Alta Planning + Design, Canada Inc is a subsidiary of APD with its Canadian headquarters in Ottawa and an office in Toronto. We work on projects from coast to coast to coast in Canada.

Day to Day

In this role, you'll have the opportunity to lead and directly influence a wide variety of active, multimodal, and sustainable transportation projects including on-street designs, trail planning and design, planning reports, and sustainable transportation best practices. You will engage residents, attend site visits and charettes, identify and communicate design opportunities and trade-offs, lead the assembly of design reports, and work closely with design guidelines and complete street projects. You will have the opportunity to work with and learn from an interdisciplinary team of dedicated professionals from across the company who have pioneered active transportation in the US and Canada, and have contributed to national best practices around facility design. You are a leader who will apply new planning tools, oversee team members on large projects and mentor junior staff.

Qualifications

Required

This position requires a combination of skills, experience and education including, but not limited to

• 10+ years experience in Planning
• Proficient with Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
• May have at least basic understanding of ArcGIS Pro, Adobe Illustrator, InDesign, and/or Acrobat.
• Possess effective oral and written communication skills

PreferredThere are a number of additional skills, experience, and education that would be beneficial to this position including, but not limited to:

• Post secondary education or master's degree in planning, environmental science, architecture, or related field; master's degree preferred.
• Registered Professional Planner or eligible for membership with a provincial agency
• Experience managing large projects for public sector clients

What We Offer

Flexible Schedule

Flexible schedule: Alta offers a flexible, hybrid work schedule where most employees work fromhome three days per week. In-office days support our collaborative culture, one of our core values. The Ottawa office is located in the Wellington West area. The team enjoys access to transit and bikeways, and the walkability to cafes, restaurants, and shops.

Compensation

The pay range for this job in Ottawa is $90,000 - $105,000 CAD annually. Placement within the range is based upon experience, skill-sets, and qualifications.

Benefits

Alta offers comprehensive benefits to all full-time employees:

• Pension Plan: Alta offers a pension place with an employer match of up to 4%.
• Medical, Dental and Vision: Alta offers a competitive and comprehensive health, prescription, vision, and dental plan through Ascension. Alta contributes 75% of the employee's elected coverage for the plan that encompasses medical, vision, and dental, which includes coverage for partners, children, and families. The plan also includes a travel benefit plan that covers emergency services when travel outside of Canada.
• The following statements pertain to US Candidates Only*
• Life Insurance: Alta pays 100% of the premium for life and AD&D, equal to your base compensation
• Paid Time Off: Alta offers employees between 21 and 25 days per year depending on their length of employment with Alta (all new hires start at the 21 day accrual). PTO hours roll over from year to year, and employees may carry up to a balance of 250 at any given time. PTO accrual begins immediately.
• Additional Benefits: Wellness reimbursement up to $800 annually, Alta Gets Around benefit of up to $900 annually, 5-year travel award, and professional development opportunities
• Holidays: Alta offers 9 paid holidays during the calendar year including New Year's Day, Family Day, Good Friday, Victoria Day, Labour Day, Thanksgiving, Christmas, Boxing Day, and 2 floating holidays to be used at your discretion.