Consultant/Senior Consultant - Integrated Planning

At Steer North America, we help shape the future of mobility, cities, and infrastructure. Our work supports more connected, sustainable, and accessible transportation systems that improve how people live, work, and travel.

Steer is an employee-owned international consultancy specializing in transportation and infrastructure. We combine global expertise with local insight to help public and private sector clients tackle complex mobility challenges and make better decisions about how people and goods move.

Our teams advise governments, transit agencies, airports, infrastructure investors, and private mobility operators across strategy, advisory, planning, and operations. From major transit investments to airport development and emerging mobility solutions, our work influences transportation systems relied on by millions.

What defines Steer is our people — curious thinkers, collaborative problem solvers, and changemakers who care about the communities we serve. Joining Steer means working on meaningful projects, contributing ideas that matter, and building a career with real impact.

About the role

Steer North America is looking for a motivated, self-starting, problem-solver and collaborative professional to fill our Transportation Planner position in the Planning and Design team, which has contributed to our company’s ongoing success in the United States, Canada, and beyond.

This person will be a contributing member of Steer’s North American teams which is comprised of planners, economists, designers, financial modellers and technical specialists. In combination, these disciplines provide us with the breadth and depth to deliver innovative and impactful solutions to our many clients.

The Consultant or Senior Consultant will:

• Work alongside colleagues to conceptualize, develop, and deliver on new and existing client projects, including in multimodal planning, regional planning, TDM, and equitable and sustainable mobility. Work may involve projects such as:

o Identifying transit needs and prioritizing investment across California’s state highway system

o Creating a Smart City Strategic Plan for the Southern California region

o Developing a Citywide Transportation Demand Management strategy for the City of Culver City

o Determining service options for new BRT routes across New Jersey

o Examining the economic impact of rail on economically distressed regions

• Manage their own work to budget and quality expectations, with the potential to oversee work conducted by others

• Support Steer’s Planning & Design practice via client engagement and proposal development

• Mentor and support early career professionals

To review our portfolio of recent projects, visit Our projects | Steer (steergroup.com).

About the Candidate

At Steer, our employees are self-motivated, goal-oriented, and adaptive. Steer commits itself to providing our clients with the utmost quality of strategic and innovative advice on some of the world’s largest transportation and infrastructure projects.

The ideal candidate for this role has:

• Effective consulting skills: listening and clarifying client problems, understanding project scope, managing time and resources, ensuring margins.

• Effective communication skills:distilling your work in a compelling manner both verbally (written/oral) and graphically (graphs, flow charts, infographics)

• Experience working on projects that emphasize decision making, governance, and policy development

• Experience with public sector clients, including major agencies or ministries related to transportation, housing, land use, energy, and community and economic development

• Project and team management skills – including utilization planning, task allocation, and commercial management of consulting projects

• Experience developing successful proposals for public sector requests (including EOIs, RFQs, and RFPs)

• The ability to work collaboratively with colleagues and our clients in a fast-paced environment; high level of personal accountability.

Requirements

The preferred candidate for this role will possess some or all of the following attributes:

• 3-5 years (Consultant) or 5-8 years (Senior Consultant) relevant experience in transportation planning

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent, Master’s degree preferred

• Ability to provide technical support across 2-3+ of the following disciplines or skills:

o Strategic planning for public sector transportation agencies

o Multimodal planning and conceptual design

o Corridor, area, and first/last mile studies

o Governance and public policy development

o Scenario planning

o Stakeholder facilitation

o Business case development

o Transportation demand management

o Data analysis and visualization

o Applied research

o Structured decision support and decision-making process management

o Complex transportation models and related analytical tools, such as GIS, EMME, TransCAD, R, Python or similar

o Visualisation tools such as Illustrator, InDesign, Tableau, Power BI or similar

• Familiarity with emerging best-practices/guidelines in transportation, smart cities, micro-mobility, and urban transportation

• An ability to delegate, learn quickly and find enjoyment through the development of new skills

• Detail-oriented; able to multi-task and effectively prioritize workloads and meet strict deadlines

Work Environment

We value in-person collaboration and client engagement, with flexibility depending on project needs. All Steer employees seeking a full-time opportunity are non-exempt and encouraged to spend 60% of their time either in office or on-site with clients. An employee’s typical work week consists of 40 hours (Canada 37.5 hours). Hours, expectations, and exemption status will be determined for any applicant seeking a part-time opportunity.

Benefits

How You’ll Grow

We value curiosity and a commitment to growth at every stage of a career. Regardless of your level of experience, you will be encouraged to keep learning, build new capabilities, and pursue opportunities that expand your impact and professional development. You will be supported through structured programs and on-the-job learning opportunities that build the breadth and depth of your skills at each level of growth and leadership.

Benefits That Support You

We believe that supporting our people is essential to delivering great work. Our benefits are designed to support your health, wellbeing, financial security, and professional growth. An important part of this is a commitment to a flexible, hybrid working environment.

Our benefits include:

• Excellent medical, dental, and vision coverage
• 3% 401(k)/RRSP contribution
• Discretionary annual bonus
• Generous paid time off including vacation, public holidays, sick time, and volunteering days- up to 44 days (US) and 47 days (Canada) annually
• Group Share Incentive Plan, providing employees with the opportunity to share in the long-term success of the firm
• Commuter benefits (US)

Why People Choose Steer

Our people join Steer because they want to do meaningful work in a collaborative and intellectually curious environment. At Steer you’ll find:

• A culture that values collaboration, where you can work in partnership with teammates from around the world
• Projects that create tangible improvements in how people move and connect, impacting the daily lives of millions of people
• Expert colleagues who are passionate about the future of mobility and cities
• The flexibility to build your professional skills and a consulting practice in a way that matches your ambition

Our Commitment to Fairness & Inclusion

At Steer, everyone is valued for their talent, curiosity, and potential. We recruit based on capability — not background or pedigree — and our interviewers are trained to run fair and inclusive processes that give every candidate an equitable opportunity to succeed.

We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer and welcome applicants from all legally protected backgrounds. We provide accommodations throughout the hiring process and during employment to ensure everyone can participate fully.

Salary Range - $70k - 98k w/ benefits