Strategic Lead – Transportation Planning & Strategy

Dillon Consulting’s Integrated Mobility Discipline is looking for an experienced leader to guide the expansion of our Transportation Planning & Strategy team. Designed for a planner or engineer with over 12 years of experience, this role carries a dual role: shape the market strategy to grow our transportation planning service and guide the professional development of the staff who execute it.

As a key senior resource, you will also serve as Project Director, Project Manager or Senior Advisor on multi-modal planning assignments, environmental assessments, secondary plans, transit oriented development, and regional infrastructure strategies.

About Dillon

Unlike many consulting firms that operate as fragmented profit centres, Dillon operates as a single, unified team across our 27 offices with more than 1,300 staff nation-wide. Furthermore, Dillon is 100% employee-owned. Here, your entrepreneurial drive directly impacts the business, allowing you to champion technical excellence, drive change, and reap the rewards of your leadership. In addition to the compensation outlined for this role, you would also be eligible for employee ownership as a member of staff. Owners benefit from annual profit distributions and the ability to have a say in how the business evolves. Employees who demonstrate a strong understanding of the business and exhibit positive leadership while contributing to the growth and success of the company are also rewarded with the opportunity to advance to Associate and Partner ownership levels and receive performance-informed profit allocations. Working within our employee-owned model, you will leverage existing client relationships and cultivate new client opportunities to advance Dillon’s transportation planning practice.

The successful candidate can be based at any one of our following Ontario offices: Toronto, North York, Hamilton, Oakville, Vaughan, Guelph, Kitchener, Kingston, Ottawa, London and Windsor, with flexible work hours and hybrid work arrangements to help balance the competing demands of work and personal life.

• Identify, develop, and secure new business opportunities to grow the Integrated Mobility Discipline in Canada, with a focus on southwest, Ontario, eastern Ontario, the Greater Toronto Hamilton Area and/or Atlantic Canada. 
• Act as a trusted advisor to key public and private sector clients, maintaining and expanding long-term client relationships.
• Develop and implement strategic plans to enhance Dillon’s market presence and thought leadership in transportation planning and strategy.
• Lead proposal development and statements of qualifications for major transportation planning opportunities.
• Business travel to other Dillon offices upon request.

• Advise, lead and/or manage project teams in the delivery of multi-modal transportation projects, including:
• Functional and preliminary design studies for roadway and rapid transit corridors.
• Municipal Class Environmental Assessment (EA) studies for complex transportation master plans and/or urban infrastructure projects.
• Complete street, multi-modal and roadway safety policy studies.
• Transportation planning for secondary planning and site plans.
• Macro and microscope modelling.
• Liaise with multidisciplinary project teams (including transportation, municipal and structural engineers, transportation systems planners, planners, environmental scientists and technical support staff).
• Participate in stakeholder consultation programs and deliver municipal council and agency presentations.

• Commit to self-development and ongoing learning and professional development.
• Identify and implement a strategy to grow the Transportation Planning and Strategies team, aligned with the market assessment.
• Input to the career development of junior staff, including technical direction, training recommendations, coaching and mentoring.
• Contribute to Dillon's corporate profile through active participation in professional associations and committees.

• A degree in civil engineering, transportation engineering, or urban planning.
• A minimum of 12 years of progressive professional experience, preferably in the consulting industry.
• Proven leadership, people management, and business development capabilities.

• Proven experience in leading transportation planning systems, demand forecasting, functional design and/or policy studies
• Demonstrated abilities in the leadership of large, multi-disciplinary projects and teams, with a minimum of six years in a project management capacity.
• Exceptional abilities in project management, including budget, schedule, and quality control.
• Proven skills in public and agency consultation for complex urban projects.
• In-depth understanding of the southern Ontario, eastern Ontario, Greater Toronto Hamilton Area (GTHA) and/or Atlantic Canada  transportation market and established client relationships.
• A track record of successful business development, including proposal leadership and a desire to build a market presence.
• Track record of growing a team of consulting professionals to match business development goals.
• Strong people management and mentorship skills.
• Exceptional communication (verbal and written) and presentation skills are essential.

Please be advised that Dillon uses AI-assisted tools to support aspects of our recruitment process to increase efficiency and fairness. While AI supports the process, all hiring decisions are made by our human recruiting team. By applying, you acknowledge and consent to this use.

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