Entry-Level Transportation Engineer/Planner (Summer 2026)
If you are interested in multiple locations please only apply once, your preference will be discussed during the screening process.
At Fehr & Peers, we are a diverse group of individuals with one thing in common-a passion for transportation.We highly value that same passion incandidates for our team. Our Entry-Level Transportation Engineers and Planners may expect to build a career foundation through a wide variety of experiences.Our emphasisontheearly development of project management and technical skillsprovides the tools for success as well as a foundation for increasing career growth.These opportunities for personal and professional growthare maximizedthrough experience in both planning and engineeringproject workandbyexposure toa multitude of project types and tasks, including the following:- Transportation impact studies
- Bicycle and pedestrian planning
- Access, circulation, and parking studies
- Multimodal operations assessments
- Completestreets planning, operations, and design
- Cost estimates and project specifications
- Transit forecasting and operations
- Travel behavior forecasting
- Vehicle miles of travel (VMT) assessments
- Systemic safety studies
- Highway interchange/corridor studies
- Climateactionplans
- Freight planning
- Transportationdemandmanagement(TDM)plans
- Design drawings from the conceptual stage all the way to construction-ready documents, including the following: - Bikeways/completestreets - Signing and striping - Traffic signals/ITS - Street lighting - Roundabouts - Temporary traffic control
Please review the responsibilities below.
Ongoing:
- Conduct transportation analysis and write reports
- Participate in meetings, including preparing presentations and public outreach materials
- Handle project management responsibilities
- Participate in professional organizations
- Conduct site visits and collect field data
- Explore the Fehr & Peers internal Research and Development program
- Participate in on-the-job training and mentoring
- Work on a few different projects
- Seek additional work from project managers
- Work on a variety of projects with most staff in the office
- Use several technical software programs
- Prepare deliverables, including memos, reports, and presentations
- Attend multiple client meetings
- Increase responsibilityformanaging small projects
- An entrepreneurial spiritandproactive approach to communication and getting work done
- Genuine curiosity for the work and familiarity with the challenges of day-to-day travel within your community
- Completedbachelor's or in-processmaster's degree in transportation, civil or electrical engineering, urban and regional planning, or a related major (e.g.,geography, math, statistics, economics)
- Coursework in transportation, engineering, urban and regional planning, geography, math, statistics, economics, or other related courses (an EIT for engineering candidates is preferred)
- Experience or exposure related to the following topic areas (note thatexperience in all these areas is not required)Topic Areas: Field work, traffic operations analysis, signal design, transportation planning (e.g.,bicycle or transit plans, infrastructure finance, transportation and land use policy, and/or travel demand modeling)
- Experience or exposure to relevant software(note thatexperience with allsoftware is not required). General-MicrosoftExcel, GIS (ArcGIS, QGIS), and/or CAD (AutoCAD,Microstation). Traffic Operations Analysis-HCS, Synchro/SimTraffic,Vistro, VISSIM, and/or Sidra. Travel Demand Modeling-Cube/Voyager,TransCAD, VISUM, and/or Emme. Programming-Python and/or R.
- Previous work experience in an office setting related to a topic area listed above
- Experience with technical writing and public speaking through school and/or workexperience
- Interpersonal skills, a desire to collaborate, and a creative approach to problem-solving
- Organizational skills and the ability to balance priorities between multiple tasks within a defined timeline