Full Time Associated Needed - Toronto, ON, Canada - Alta Planning + Design, Inc.

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Planning Associate I (Hybrid Schedule) (#0934)
Alta Planning + Design, Canada – Inc seeks a Planning Associate for our Toronto, 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

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.

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.

Proficient with Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
~ 10+ years experience in Planning

Post secondary education or master's degree in planning, environmental science, architecture, or related field; Experience managing large projects for public sector clients
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 Toronto office is located in downtown Toronto near major transit and bikeways.
The pay range for this job in Toronto is $90,000 – $105,000 CAD annually .

Alta offers comprehensive benefits to all full-time employees:

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.

Pension Plan:
Alta offers a pension place with an employer match of up to 4%.
PTO accrual begins immediately.

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.