Senior Traffic Engineer – Supervising Traffic Engineer

Description

• Provide guidance, mentorship, and coaching to entry-level/junior engineers or technicians to help them improve their technical skills.
• Senior technical resource may serve as technical advisor for team
• Develops study and design procedures to facilitate high quality cost effective work by others.
• Support a wide range of planning and preliminary engineering projects for roadways, freeways, transit systems, managed lanes, and bicycle and pedestrian facilities.
• Perform work in accordance with agreed-upon budgets and schedules with little supervision.
• Work on detailed or routine engineering assignments involving design calculations, analysis, value engineering, writing technical specifications, and project cost estimates.
• Lead traffic studies for projects in California and support West Coast regional projects as needed.
• Assist project managers on various projects involving transportation plans, traffic safety, and public involvement, and the overall preparation of CEQA and NEPA compliance documents. Experience with FHWA, state, and local transportation planning, traffic, and environmental processes.
• Gather and correlate basic engineering data using established and well-defined procedures.
• Provides specialized technical input to studies and design for staff's specific area of expertise.
• Participates in interdisciplinary review of project deliverables.
• Performs quality control review of design calculations or drawings.
• Prepares technical specification sections.
• Provides input to the development of engineering budget and schedule to meet requirements.
• Propose approaches to solve new problems encountered, apply innovative design solutions, and implement current technology to meet project design needs.
• Develops construction cost estimates and estimates of technical efforts for projects.

Requirements

• BA/BS + 6 years of relevant experience or demonstrated equivalency of experience and/or education
• 8+ years of relevant experience.
• Certified Engineer (PE/TE/PTOE) license in California, or the ability to obtain the license within 6 months.
• Must be highly self-motivated with the ability to successfully multi-task, perform detail-oriented work, work independently, and demonstrate effective time management skills.
• Uses expertise in all steps of completing discipline component of PS&E package.
• Relevant experience in transportation planning, modeling, and engineering for multimodal transportation projects.
• Experience with traffic engineering projects and clients on the West Coast (California, Washington, Oregon, and Nevada).
• Experience with ITS or emerging technology projects and clients on the West Coast (California, Washington, Oregon, and Nevada).
• The right balance of management and technical skills, and experience serving internal and external clients.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills and the ability to discuss projects with co-workers, clients, regulatory agency staff, AECOM staff, and the public in meetings and at public events, as well as write concise and readable technical reports and documents.
• Skilled in traffic simulation/modeling software, including Synchro/SimTraffic, VISSIM, HCS, and other platforms utilized by local agencies in California.
• Experience and familiarity with traffic operational analysis, including traffic projections, analysis, and simulation; traffic safety analysis; traffic signal warrants; traffic signal and pedestrian crossing control system analysis and design.
• Skilled in the use of Microsoft Office programs and other relevant software programs (Word, Excel, Outlook, and preferably Project).
• Experience and familiarity with ITS and technology projects following the systems engineering process and local client requirements.
• Experience in business development activities, including preparing project proposals and firm marketing.
• Must be highly self-motivated with the ability to successfully multi-task, perform detail-oriented work, work independently, demonstrate effective time management skills, and consistently deliver high-quality deliverables.
• Familiarity with or knowledge of MicroStation, AutoCAD, Synchro, VISSIM, or other similar applications.
• Master's degree in Civil Engineering or equivalent.
• Caltrans experience required.

Benefits

• Sponsorship is not offered for this position.

Training + Development

Interview process

Visa Sponsorship

Security clearance