Road Designer - Intermediate

Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets.

We are more than 36,000 people, in over 70 countries, dedicated to improving quality of life. Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds, together we can solve the world’s most complex challenges and deliver more impact together.

Role description:

We are currently seeking an intermediate Road Designer for our Waterloo-ON office. This position will provide technical support and services to the Traffic Engineering / Transportation Planning team, helping define the cities of tomorrow. 

Role accountabilities:

In this role you will work on water, storm water, and sanitary sewer designs and LID applications & processes. You will be responsible for traffic and roundabout design and understand active transportation principles. You will do utility coordination, environmental assessment / approvals, roadway construction tender preparation, estimates and specifications. This person will conduct traffic impact studies including collecting transportation data, building traffic analysis models, and performing traffic analysis. You will conduct parking studies including reviewing municipal policy, calculating parking utilization and demand rates, perform site visits, and formulating parking supply recommendations. You will work on roadway conceptual/functional designs, including preparing cross-sections and plan view drawings based on the study outcomes and project objectives. You will also assist with preparing proposals, budgets and schedules in addition to coordinating with other design disciplines, offices and staff. For some assignments you will help manage data collection by third parities and liaise with clients and the public.

Qualifications & Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree or College diploma in Transportation Engineering, Civil Engineering, or Engineering Technology with a focus on Road Design


• 5+ or more years of experience that includes technical and business development experience in road design, traffic engineering and transportation planning


• Experience in managing small projects and studies would be welcome


• Ability in AutoCAD and CIVIL3D at a basic level is required; additional skill would be beneficial


• Municipal geometric design standards and GIS is beneficial

Why Arcadis?

We can only achieve our goals when everyone is empowered to be their best. We believe everyone's contribution matters. It’s why we are pioneering a skills-based approach, where you can harness your unique experience and expertise to carve your career path and maximize the impact we can make together.

You’ll do meaningful work, and no matter what role, you’ll be helping to deliver sustainable solutions for a more prosperous planet. Make your mark, on your career, your colleagues, your clients, your life and the world around you.

Together, we can create a lasting legacy.

Join Arcadis. Create a Legacy.

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We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day which is why we take equality and inclusion seriously and hold ourselves to account for our actions. Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people. We are an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. Women, minorities, people with disabilities and veterans are strongly encouraged to apply. We are dedicated to a policy of non-discrimination in employment on any basis including race, creed, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, citizenship status, disability, veteran status, or any other basis prohibited by law.

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