04566 - Eng Traffic Design

About the Role

Provide technical advice, guidance, and training regarding assigned engineering program areas. Prepare analyses, reports, and recommendations based on engineering determinations. Offer engineering support and consultation related to the engineering program area. Effectively manage assigned projects to ensure timely and accurate completion. Communicate with internal VDOT staff, local government staff, consultants, citizens, and FHWA regarding transportation projects and programs.

Design, manage, and produce traffic control device plans accurately and precisely using good engineering judgment within established budgets and schedules, adhering to federal and state standards, guidelines, and policies. Oversee the work of and train other team members, maintain high skills in design technologies and construction methodologies, and provide extraordinary customer service.

Responsibilities

• Analysis and Technical Reporting: Analyze and interpret engineering data and information. Prepare complete, clear, and concise reports and recommendations.
• Communication: Establish effective communication between VDOT, contractors, government agencies, and the public. Investigate issues and resolve complaints.
• Computer and CADD Skills: Use MicroStation, Guidesign, Geopak, AGI, PcES, Trns*port, and MS Office Suite.
• Design of Traffic Control Devices:
  • Design preliminary and final plans of traffic control devices for each project using iPM and PCES.
  • Work with technical staff to review designs developed by consultants or local jurisdictions to ensure compliance with federal and state standards, guidelines, and policies.
  • Ensure budgets and timelines for projects are met.
  • Analyze plans and specification revision requests; ensure revisions are completed timely, correctly, and processed through proper channels.
  • Review and process catalog cuts to ensure conformance with the contract.
  • Stay abreast of new technology, specifications, and construction methodologies.
  • Assist in updating specifications, standards, the Traffic Engineering Design Manual, and internal memoranda for TCD plan development.
• Engineering Process Management: Use established VDOT policies and procedures to develop and deliver engineering projects in compliance with state and federal laws and regulations.
• Manage Assigned Activities: Plan, schedule, and coordinate engineering program activities to meet deliverables within established scope and timeline.
• Project Engineering: Assist in managing projects and tasks, including scope, schedule, budget, deliverables, change management, quality, and status reports. Complete multiple concurrent tasks and report updates on their status.
• Quality Control: Maintain the quality of projects produced by the team; perform required checks throughout the process. Ensure electronic files are archived at proper stages of plan development. Participate in peer reviews of work done by others.
• Special Assignments: Manage special program initiatives and projects as assigned. Serve and represent VDOT or assigned program area on various committees and work groups.
• Task and Time Management: Demonstrate knowledge of utility design and its relation to the plan development process. Perform and direct tasks in accordance with project scheduling and in support of VDOT programs. Manage time and adjust task priorities as needed.
• Teamwork and Customer Service: Demonstrate customer service and work habits reflecting VDOT Values. Coordinate the flow of information both orally and in writing.
• Technical Guidance and Leadership to Consultants:
  • Provide guidance on policy requirements, stages of project development, and training opportunities.
  • Direct consultants providing TCD designs.
  • Ensure proper staff attend project meetings to provide input on TCD and iTS designs, potential conflicts, and right-of-way requirements.

Requirements

• Ability to apply engineering principles and practices.
• Ability to communicate effectively orally and in writing with diverse groups.
• Ability to draw rational conclusions and develop solutions from analysis; make independent decisions; and manage multiple assignments.
• Ability to enforce and demonstrate safety behaviors, as well as advocate and practice safety in everyday work activities.
• Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with others.
• Ability to interpret and use construction plans, MUTCD, and VA Supplement to MUTCD.
• Ability to interpret technical data and prepare and maintain detailed reports.
• Ability to manage multiple projects and priorities with competing deadlines and limited resources.
• Ability to negotiate outcomes and work with diverse customer groups.
• Ability to provide detailed reports on review findings.
• Ability to read and understand highway construction plans.
• Ability to use Road and Bridge Specifications and Standards and various other manuals.
• Ability to use internal computer programs, such as PCES, FALCON, and Transport.
• Knowledge of engineering specifications and standards.
• Knowledge of VDOT, state, and federal policies and procedures relating to transportation engineering.
• Knowledge of civil or traffic engineering principles and practices in traffic control devices.
• Knowledge of the project development process, policies, guidelines, or regulations related to traffic control devices and ITS elements.
• Knowledge of project management procedures and principles.
• Knowledge of traffic design and ability to review traffic control device plans.
• Skill in providing and promoting good customer service to internal and external customers.
• Skill in the use of computers and software applications, including MS Office, project management, and engineering software programs.
• Skilled in MS Office software and use of traffic engineering design programs.

Qualifications

• Ability to interpret and use construction plans, MUTCD, and VA Supplement to MUTCD.
• Ability to plan, coordinate, and prioritize multiple assignments within set timeframes.
• Ability to train and evaluate the work of others.
• Communicate effectively orally and in writing with internal and external customers.
• Knowledge of civil engineering principles and practices related to traffic control devices.
• Knowledge of the project development process, policies, guidelines, or regulations related to traffic control devices and ITS elements.
• Skilled in MS Office software and use of traffic engineering design programs.

Additional Considerations

• Professional Engineers License.
• Experience in Traffic Control Device design, traffic engineering practices, highway civil engineering, report writing, evaluation, research, and training.

Physical Requirements

VDOT employees must abide by VDOT’s Code of Ethics and the Commonwealth’s Standards of Conduct.