Graduate Transport Planner (Data Analyst) - Edinburgh/Glasgow - 2025 (Immediate Start)

Overview

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Application Deadline: Recruitment is ongoing. Please apply as soon as possible as the advert may close once we have sufficient applicants.

Your role

Are you passionate about using data to shape the future of transport? Join our growing Transport Planning Digital Practice at Stantec, where innovation meets impact. This role is for an immediate start, joining our 2025 Graduate Programme.

About the Role

As a Graduate Data Analyst, you'll be part of our expanding transport data analytics team, helping drive technical innovation and digital delivery. You'll work on infrastructure and planning projects across all modes of transport-bus, rail, road, ferry, cycling, and active travel-supporting public sector clients with strategies, appraisals, and business cases. You'll collaborate with colleagues across the UK and globally, using tools like GIS, Python, Power BI, R, and AI to analyse and visualise data, delivering tailored, data-driven insights. Your creativity will help shape cutting-edge tools and solutions.

What You'll Experience

• A supportive, interdisciplinary team environment
• Exposure to a variety of projects, people, and disciplines
• Opportunities for professional development and career progression
• A culture of innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning

Explore our Transport Engineering Consultancy Stantec and Stantec Career Stories to see where your journey could take you.

You will join a supportive and successful team with exciting career opportunities, gain great client exposure and professional development and work in an innovative and collaborative environment.

Take a look at our Transport Planning service line: Transport Planning Services (), and review the career journey of our Stantec graduates here: Stantec Career Stories.

About you

At Stantec, we value your potential over past experience. You'll need a minimum of a Bachelor's degree in Maths, Statistics, Data Science, Physics, Economics, or another highly numerate discipline. You're a curious, creative thinker with a passion for solving real-world problems through data. You will also be:

• An Adapter - You're able to remain calm in new and changing situations, comfortably switching between a variety of dynamic and exciting tasks.
• A Perseverer - You stay composed in the face of setbacks, approaching challenges with confidence and determination.
• A Collaborator - You work effectively with lots of different people, considering others' perspectives to shape better outcomes.
• A Problem-Solver - You love to give your thoughts based on what you see, being unafraid to challenge conventional thinking.

Please note, we ask our graduates to come into the office 4 days per week, to ensure that you receive sufficient time with your team and the appropriate level of support.

What we can offer you

• A competitive salary
• Private medical insurance
• A range of benefits, including holiday buy and sell, group income protection and life assurance
• Permanent employment contract to demonstrate our commitment to your long-term career at Stantec
• Professional progression plan, supporting you to gain professional chartership
• A supportive and collaborative team environment and Early Careers peer group and wider ERG network

Applicants must have an unconditional right to live and work in the UK for an indefinite period without limitation.

Please take a look at our Graduate FAQs if you have any questions. We look forward to receiving your application!