Pittsburgh Office
Position Summary
This position is responsible for providing traffic engineering services and support for projects by performing the following duties, either personally or through subordinates.
Salary Range
$60,000 – $84,000 Annually
Education & Experience
Years of Experience: Minimum of 5+ years experience in the engineering field or equivalent combination of education and experience
Education: BA or BS Degree required
Degree or Formal Training: Civil Engineering or a related discipline
License, Certificate or Registration: PE in Pennsylvania or the ability to get one is required (Ohio, Maryland, and West Virginia are a plus); PTOE, PTP and PMP certifications are not required but are a plus
Essential Duties & Responsibilities
- Provide traffic engineering support in response to department needs, including but not limited to, traffic signal design, roadway lighting design, signing and pavement marking plans, development of permanent and temporary traffic control plans, traffic operations and capacity analysis, traffic impact studies, traffic forecasting and modelling, safety studies, transportation planning studies, and highway occupancy permits
- Develop reports, calculations, and drawings for projects
- Utilize various design software/tools for traffic analysis for a variety of conditions
- Demonstrate understanding and knowledge of industry codes, standards, and computer-assisted engineering and design software and equipment to prepare engineering and design documents
- Train and mentor less experienced engineers and designers
- Conduct field views to determine location of utilities, measure percent of grades, observe speed limits, and other critical design factors
- Assist with statements of interest, technical proposals, and price proposals as needed
- Conduct ATR and manual traffic counts in the field
- Ability to work with advanced analysis and systems
- Adhere to project schedules and budgets and keep PMs aware of issues
- Ability/knowledge to check the work of other designers and senior engineers; oversight of less experienced team members (where applicable)
- Ability to accept assignments of increased complexity
- Communicate effectively at a high level with engineers and non-engineers
- Ability to express both technical and non-technical issues and ideas clearly
- Demonstrate time management and staying on budget
- Coordinate and complete field inspections, as needed
- Maintain billability percentage set by supervisor/leadership
- Supports internal departments with traffic engineering services required to execute projects