Where your career meets Canada’s future

At the Vancouver Fraser Port Authority, the work we do matters. Every day, our people help connect Canada to global markets, strengthen supply chains, support sustainable growth, and shape the future of Canada’s largest port.

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Where your career meets Canada’s future

At the Vancouver Fraser Port Authority, the work we do matters. Every day, our people help connect Canada to global markets, strengthen supply chains, support sustainable growth, and shape the future of Canada’s largest port.

If you're looking for purposeful work where your contributions make a difference, you'll find it here - supported by a team that is collaborative, innovative, and committed to excellence.

Why join us

At The Port Authority, We’re Committed To Delivering An Employee Experience That Is As Rewarding As The Work Itself. We Offer

- Meaningful work that contributes to Canada’s trade and economic prosperity
- Opportunities for learning, development, and career growth
- A collaborative and inclusive workplace culture
- Competitive compensation and comprehensive advantages
- Flexible programs that support employee wellbeing and work-life integration

Manage and plan assets with a long-term, public-interest lens – not short-term speculation. Your work balances commercial value, community needs, environmental considerations, and future growth. Decisions here shape how land supports trade, jobs, and regional development for decades.

Build a career with purpose

If you’re looking for work that is meaningful, challenging, and connected to something bigger, we’d love to hear from you. Join us and discover how your career can help shape Canada’s future.





The Transportation Planner is responsible for administering transportation planning and policy initiatives, including port-wide, local area and/or site-specific plans as well as implementing strategies and action plans related to regional transportation decisions in the Gateway to achieve Port of Vancouver transportation needs.

What Success Looks Like

- The Transportation Planner undertakes transportation planning projects and studies that focus on improving road and rail access to the Port, including studies to assess transportation service needs, infrastructure requirements and expansion opportunities. Responds to enquiries from and provides advice and recommendations to staff, Port stakeholders, outside agencies and the public on transportation planning issues and concerns affecting the Port and the Gateway.
- Prepare and complete the transportation review of Project & Environmental Review (PER) permit applications, including the review of transportation engineering designs and construction traffic management plans.
- Participate, in collaboration with other port authority departments, comprehensive engagement and consultation processes involving a broad range of stakeholder groups including, but not limited to, terminal operators and port tenants, local, provincial and federal government representatives, regional agencies,



community representatives and the general public in undertaking transportation planning and policy initiatives, including port-wide, local area and/or site specific plans or projects.
- Prepare procurement documents, coordinate internal processes for the approval of budgets, and track budgets to ensure costs are controlled.
- Meet with project proponents and draft agendas, meeting notes, follow-up correspondence.
- Represent the port as liaison with industry, governments, and other stakeholders
- Coordinate the activities of professional consultants to carry out technical work to inform preparation of transportation planning strategies and/or plans.
- Prepare and deliver communication materials including presentations, briefing notes and reports in different forums to internal and external audiences.
- Organize, support and facilitate committee-related activities, including scheduling meetings, preparing briefing materials, documenting outcomes, and tracking action items.
- Monitors external transportation policies, plans, and programs that impact the Port and the Gateway. Representatives VFPA interests in external transportation planning initiatives undertaken by other transportation agencies (including local municipalities, Metro Vancouver, TransLink, Ministry of Transportation, BC Transportation Financing Authorities and Transport Canada) on appropriate occasions to provide a bridging function between VFPA and these agencies.
- Performs other assigned duties as required.

Qualifications

- Must have a university degree in planning, urban geography or engineering, along with a minimum of three years related experience in transportation planning or traffic engineeri

📌 Transportation Planner (Vancouver)
🏢 Vancouver Fraser Port Authority
📍 Vancouver