CORRIDOR MANAGEMENT TRANSPORTATION ENGINEER -09012026-80568

About the role

This position is in Region 3 – Traffic Operations – Traffic Operations & Permitting section, located in Davidson County, Nashville, TN. The Corridor Management Transportation Engineer serves as a key technical authority within TDOT’s Region Traffic Operations team, responsible for ensuring safe, consistent, and efficient corridor management and egress/ingress access control to the State Highway System.

Responsibilities

• Review and assist the Regional Permit Operations with permits for commercial and residential driveways, field entrances, signals, and license agreements, ensuring compliance with TDOT’s standards, procedures, and applicable regulations.
• Apply sound judgment to evaluate the impacts of proposed access control points on safety, traffic flow, and corridor performance while balancing local development needs with statewide mobility goals.
• Provide technical guidance to developers and local agencies, leading pre-application meetings, resolving access-related conflicts, and coordinating with internal teams to ensure enforceable, risk-informed designs.
• Serve as TDOT’s primary point of contact for access control inquiries and represent the department in meetings with MPOs, RPOs, municipalities, and property owners to align access control decisions with regional planning objectives.
• Ensure accurate documentation and reporting according to TDOT Records Disposition Authorization (RDA) requirements.
• Serve on project teams to integrate access control into all phases of project delivery, providing input at each Project Delivery Network (PDN) stage, including scoping, design, and quality reviews.
• Provide technical input during scoping, design, and quality reviews, including Functional Design Plans, and review access-related features such as median openings, turn lanes, signals, and intersection designs.
• Identify risks early in project development and recommend solutions aligned with corridor access control policies, procedures, standards, and strategies.
• Coordinate deviation requests through the TDOT Deviations Committee as part of the Highway Access Manual or the PDN process when proposed driveways do not meet TDOT standards.
• Ensure access control designs and permit decisions comply with TDOT’s Quality Management Guidelines and regulatory standards to support safety performance and operational reliability.
• Participate in audits, field inspections, and internal QA/QC reviews to verify that permitted access control points are constructed as approved and aligned with Transportation Management Plans (TMPs) and Temporary Traffic Control (TTC) strategies.
• Identify and mitigate risks related to constructability, legal enforceability, and long-term maintenance, recommending solutions in collaboration with other technical disciplines.
• Support quality teams by providing quality reviews that align with the PDN and help safeguard transportation network performance while minimizing construction delays and contractor claims.
• Contribute to access control policy updates, classification standards and special provisions, variance procedures, and tracking system improvements to promote statewide quality, consistency, and efficiency.
• Contribute to Project Teams within a matrix organization by providing traffic operations expertise, helping to define the project vision in alignment with Project Management and Asset Management, setting expectations for managing operational risk, and recommending access and operational improvements that support TDOT’s performance goals across scope, schedule, budget, and quality.
• Use crash data, traffic studies, and real-time tools (INTRIX, RITIS, and applicable traffic operations programs) to evaluate access control impacts on safety, congestion, and corridor performance.
• Support implementation of corridor strategies including Integrated Corridor Management (ICM), Active Traffic Management (ATM), Traffic Incident Management (TIM), and signal coordination to improve mobility, safety, and system reliability.
• Collaborate across disciplines, including Environment, Maintenance, and Construction, to develop context-sensitive Functional Design Plans and ensure integration of traffic operations elements.
• Represent the Department at public meetings, address stakeholder concerns, approve traffic operations deliverables, and proactively manage risks related to safety, compliance, and public impact.
• Remain current and engaged on revisions to design codes, standards, procedures, and guidelines related to access control and traffic operations elements, adopt new technologies and best practices that increase safety and mobility for TDOT’s transportation network.
• Assist in implementing a tracking mechanism that ensures the access control program, software, and systems are evolving to meet TDOT’s operational needs.
• Promote the integration of advanced technologies such as connected and autonomous vehicles, smart traffic signals, and real-time data analytics tools into the Region’s transportation network.
• Stay current on FHWA, AASHTO, and peer DOT best practices related to access management, traffic impact analysis, and congestion mitigation while collaborating on innovative strategies to reduce travel time delays, coordinate corridor management, and ensure interoperability of traffic operations technologies.
• Assist in developing a Consultant Acquisition Plan (CAP) for Region Traffic Operations services, including supporting RFP development, establishing scoring criteria, attending marketing meetings, participating in project information sessions, serving on technical review committees, and providing actionable feedback during consultant debriefs.
• Support the development of scopes of services and technical expectations for consultant-led access control reviews, studies, and permit support work aligned with TDOT priorities.
• Serve on consultant selection panels to ensure access control goals and statewide consistency are reflected in evaluation criteria and award recommendations.
• Track access permit performance metrics and contribute to continuous, data-driven improvements in access control management practices.
• Collaborate with the Region Traffic Operations Manager to assist the TDOT Technical Training Director in developing training focused on access control permitting, incorporating technical criteria, emerging technologies, and traffic operations principles.
• Support the development and delivery of training for internal staff, consultants, and local partners on access control regulations, permit procedures, and design requirements.
• Foster a culture of continuous improvement by encouraging knowledge sharing and collaboration among internal team members and external stakeholders.
• Provide exceptional customer service to both internal and external customers by mentoring and providing technical guidance related to access control and traffic operations, coordinating with other disciplines as part of a matrix organization, exercising effective listening skills, providing prompt responses, maintaining complete and accurate documentation, and communicating effectively.
• Assist in ensuring access control deliverables are consistent, predictable, and repeatable to maintain consistently high levels of achievement, mitigate risk, and establish a track record of success by implementing statewide policy, data collection, specifications, and direction.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering from an accredited institution.
• Active status with the State of Tennessee as a professional engineer.
• 4 years of demonstrated competency in developing and/or constructing transportation projects.

Skills

• Knowledge of engineering principles within a specific discipline and how they relate to transportation projects.
• Knowledge of state and federal regulations/requirements for development and construction of transportation projects.
• Ability to identify and mitigate risk associated with transportation projects.
• Skilled in using critical thinking to problem solve and make informed decisions independently.
• Ability to learn technical concepts and apply those concepts to work.
• Ability to communicate effectively, with excellent verbal/written and public speaking skills, and to interact with others in a professional and courteous manner, including internal/external stakeholders.

Pay

Starting salary: $8,525 monthly / $102,300 annually. Salary range: $6,544 – $8,454 monthly ($78,528 – $101,448 annually).