Assistant Engineer - Traffic
The City of San Diego · San Diego County, CA · 1 mo ago
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We need to produce HTML fragment with sections for headings: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Only include sections that have real specific content.
We need to parse the job posting.
Job title: Assistant Engineer – Traffic (maybe). The posting includes description of duties: "produce travel forecasts; perform traffic crash analyses, field surveys, and studies of statistical data; recommend changes to striping, pavement markings, signage, and parking to facilitate safe and efficient traffic flow; evaluate and recommend locations for traffic signals, street lights, stop signs, and other traffic control devices; prepare and review signal timing plans and coordinate signal timing and traffic signal timing sheets using SYNCHRO; design traffic signals, street lights, and interconnect systems; review traffic signal and traffic control plans; review transportation studies; review traffic control plans and permits and field inspect; and perform other duties as assigned."
That's responsibilities.
Also there is "Notes: Employees in job classifications represented by Municipal Employees Association (MEA) are scheduled to receive the following general wage increases: 3.5% effective 7/1/27 2% effective 7/1/28 2% effective 1/1/29". That's pay info.
Also "Eligible benefited employees originally hired on or after July 10, 2021, will be automatically enrolled in the San Diego City Employees Retirement System (SDCERS)." That's benefits.
Also "Assistant Engineer – Traffic employees with valid State of California registration as a Professional Traffic, Civil, or Electrical Engineer are eligible for 31% additional pay." That's pay.
Also "Assistant Engineer – Traffic employees who do not have a valid State of California Professional Engineer registration but have a valid Engineer-in-Training (EIT) certification that meets the requirements established by California’s Department of Consumer Affairs, Board for Professional Engineers, Land Surveyors, and Geologists are eligible for 8% additional pay." That's pay.
Also "The employee’s eligibility for EIT certification pay will end when he or she achieves state registration."
Education: list options.
Experience: list.
License: valid California Class C Driver License may be required.
Required documents: proof of degree/transcripts, certificate, or registration; for City employees proof of OCA.
Screening process: etc.
We need to remove boilerplate: cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning, duplicated lines, application instructions. Also remove "Notes: Employees in job classifications represented by Municipal Employees Association (MEA) are scheduled to receive the following general wage increases:" but we keep the wage increase details as pay.
We need to include sections only if real content.
Potential sections:
- About the role: maybe a brief summary? The posting doesn't have an explicit "About the role" paragraph. Could we infer from first paragraph? The first line: "JOB INFORMATION See NOTES below for future wage increases and/or additional compensation opportunities. APPLICANTS ARE ENCOURAGED TO APPLY TO THE FOLLOWING RELATED RECRUITMENT: Junior Engineer - Civil Assistant Engineer - Traffic positions produce travel forecasts; ..." That seems like a description of duties. Could treat as "About the role" maybe. But we need to avoid duplication. The instructions: "Do NOT repeat the job title as a heading (the page already shows it)". So we can have About the role heading with a paragraph summarizing the role.
We have responsibilities list; we can put under Responsibilities heading.
Requirements: maybe Education, Experience, License, Required documents.
Qualifications: maybe combine Education/Experience? But we need to avoid thin sections. Could combine Education and Experience under Requirements, and Qualifications maybe for certifications? However we have separate sections for Skills? Not much.
Better to have sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements (including Education, Experience, License, Required documents), Benefits, Pay.
Skills maybe not present.
Schedule not present.
Thus output sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Benefits, Pay.
We need to ensure we preserve all substantive information.
Let's extract content.
About the role: Could be the first sentence after "JOB INFORMATION See NOTES below for future wage increases and/or additional compensation opportunities. APPLICANTS ARE ENCOURAGED TO APPLY TO THE FOLLOWING RELATED RECRUITMENT: Junior Engineer - Civil Assistant Engineer - Traffic positions produce travel forecasts; ..." Actually that seems like a description of what the position does. We'll paraphrase but must preserve all substantive information, not invent or summarize away detail. We cannot omit details. So we need to include the exact duties? The responsibilities list already includes those duties. So About the role could be a short summary like "The Assistant Engineer – Traffic position involves producing travel forecasts, performing traffic crash analyses, conducting field surveys, and recommending changes to striping, pavement markings, signage, and parking to facilitate safe and efficient traffic flow." But that would be summarizing and might omit some details like evaluating locations for traffic signals, preparing signal timing plans, designing traffic signals, reviewing plans, etc. If we summarize we risk losing detail. Better to not have About the role if it would be just a summary; we could omit About the role and start with Responsibilities. The instruction: "Prefer a few substantive sections over many thin ones." So we could have only Responsibilities, Requirements, Benefits, Pay. That's four sections.
But we need to include all substantive info. The responsibilities list is covered under Responsibilities. Education, Experience, License, Required documents under Requirements. Benefits: SDCERS enrollment, maybe also mention of benefits? Not much else. Pay: wage increases, additional pay for PE registration, EIT certification.
We also have note about "Employees in job classifications represented by Municipal Employees Association (MEA) are scheduled to receive the following general wage increases: 3.5% effective 7/1/27 2% effective 7/1/28 2% effective 1/1/29". That's pay.
Also "Eligible benefited employees originally hired on or after July 10, 2021, will be automatically enrolled in the San Diego City Employees Retirement System (SDCERS)." That's benefits.
Also "Assistant Engineer – Traffic employees with valid State of California registration as a Professional Traffic, Civil, or Electrical Engineer are eligible for 31% additional pay." Pay.
Also "Assistant Engineer – Traffic employees who do not have a valid State of California Professional Engineer registration but have a valid Engineer-in-Training (EIT) certification that meets the requirements established by California’s Department of Consumer Affairs, Board for Professional Engineers, Land Surveyors, and Geologists are eligible for 8% additional pay." Pay.
Also "The employee’s eligibility for EIT certification pay will end when he or she achieves state registration." Pay.
Also "LICENSE: A valid California Class C Driver License may be required at the time of hire." Under Requirements.
Also "REQUIRED DOCUMENTS (MUST SUBMIT WITH APPLICATION): Proof of degree/transcripts, certificate, or registration, if utilized to meet the minimum requirements. For City of San Diego employees, proof of Out-of-Class Assignment (OCA), if utilized to meet the minimum requirements. Required documents should be attached electronically to your application. If you are unable to attach at the time of application submittal, you must submit them as soon as possible via fax: (619) 533-3337; or to the Employee Information Center: City of San Diego Personnel Department, 1200 Third Avenue – Suite 300, San Diego, CA 92101. Include your name and the title of the position for which you are applying." This is application instructions; we need to remove application instructions per instruction: "Remove cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate, duplicated lines, and application instructions." So we should drop the REQUIRED DOCUMENTS section entirely? But that contains substantive info about what documents needed; but it's considered application instructions. The instruction says remove application instructions. So we should omit that. However we might still need to mention that proof of degree/transcripts etc is required? That's part of application instructions. Likely we should drop it.
Similarly, "SCREENING PROCESS" etc is also application instructions/process; we should remove.
"SUPPLEMENTAL INFORMATION PRE-EMPLOYMENT REQUIREMENTS:" also process; remove.
Thus we keep only core job description: duties, education, experience, license, benefits, pay.
Now we need to format.
Section headings: .
Now Requirements: include Education, Experience, License.
Education: list options:
- Bachelor's Degree in Traffic, Civil, or Electrical Engineering, or a closely related engineering field.
- Engineer-in-Training (EIT) Certificate issued from a state licensing board.
- Registration as a Professional Traffic, Civil, or Electrical Engineer with a state licensing board.
- Note: Additional qualifying professional traffic, civil, or electrical engineering experience may be substituted for education lacked on a year-for-year basis. One year of full-time experience = 30 semester/45 quarter college-level units.
We need to preserve that note.
Experience: Two years of full-time professional traffic engineer or transportation planning experience. Qualifying professional experience MUST include at least one of the following options:
- Conducting traffic engineering analyses, inspections, preparing reports, or reviewing plans on striping, pavement marking, street and intersection capacity, parking, signing, traffic surveys, traffic safety, or traffic control work zones.
- Transportation plan review of subdivision maps, state highway plans, environmental impact reports, community plans, public improvement plans, or other plans or documents.
- Travel forecasting and transportation and mobility planning analyses which include network analysis and the use of transportation planning software (e.g., TRANPLAN/TRANSCAD, SANDAG’s Activity Based Model or equivalent travel demand modeling software, HCS, SYNCHRO/SIMTRAFFIC) to analyze future transportation system and mobility needs.
- Traffic signal or street light planning, design, operations, and inspections, including signal timing diagrams and schedules.
Notes: Completion of 30 semester/45 quarter college-level units of graduate study in transportation-related course work may be substituted for a MAXIMUM of one year of full-time professional traffic engineering or transportation planning experience.
City of San Diego employees using Out-of-Class Assignment (OCA) experience to qualify must submit written documentation signed by their appointing authority or payroll specialist, detailing the work performed, dates,
About the role
etc. But we decided maybe not About the role. Let's see if we can include a brief About the role that is not just a summary but maybe the first sentence: "Assistant Engineer - Traffic positions produce travel forecasts; perform traffic crash analyses, field surveys, and studies of statistical data; recommend changes to striping, pavement markings, signage, and parking to facilitate safe and efficient traffic flow; evaluate and recommend locations for traffic signals, street lights, stop signs, and other traffic control devices; prepare and review signal timing plans and coordinate signal timing and traffic signal timing sheets using SYNCHRO; design traffic signals, street lights, and interconnect systems; review traffic signal and traffic control plans; review transportation studies; review traffic control plans and permits and field inspect; and perform other duties as assigned." That is essentially the responsibilities list. So we could put that as Responsibilities. Thus we will have:Responsibilities
- ... each duty as separate li?