Engineer Sr. (Traffic)

About the role

This position is assigned to the Traffic Engineering specialized program area, functioning as a project manager over highly complex medium to large-scale public works projects.

Responsibilities

• Manages multiple public works projects simultaneously, including short or long-term projects.
• Develops, prepares, establishes, and implements project management plans, scope of work, work plans, schedules, and cost estimates.
• Provides technical guidance and consultation, and evaluates qualifications of engineering firms.
• Serves as team leader, team member, or field supervisor in an interdisciplinary group of professionals and technicians.
• Supervises and provides technical direction to Engineers, Engineering Associates, and Engineering Inspector Specialists.
• Measures and monitors projects to identify variances from the work plan and initiates corrective action as needed.
• Manages county traffic program, including installation, maintenance, and replacement of traffic control devices.
• Responds to resident inquiries and concerns regarding traffic safety, signage, and roadway conditions.
• Conducts engineering studies to evaluate requests and recommends appropriate solutions.
• Reviews traffic impact analysis for development projects, scopes study requirements, negotiates mitigation measures, and coordinates with developers, consultants, and external agencies.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering.
• Four years of directly related, increasingly responsible professional engineering design and project management experience as a licensed Professional Engineer (P.E.).
• Two years of lead, supervisory, management, and/or project management experience.
• Licensed to practice as a Professional Engineer (P.E.) in the State of Texas.
• Valid Texas Driver's License.

Qualifications

• Knowledge of project planning, including scope development and budgetary.
• Knowledge of project management methodologies, practices, and techniques.
• Knowledge of principles, procedures, practices, programs, systems, methods, and techniques of engineering.
• Advanced mathematical and statistical methods as used in engineering and planning.
• Principles of project management, including scheduling, estimating, measuring, and monitoring.
• Supervisory and management principles, practices, and techniques.

Skills

• Skill in planning and directing a variety of engineering projects.
• Skill in contract management, project management, and project budgeting.
• Skill in managing staff, allocating resources, and evaluating programs.
• Leadership, collaboration, and negotiation techniques.
• Analyzing complex data, technical engineering data, and reports.
• Applying principles and practices as used in engineering.
• Using and caring for equipment, tools, and testing materials.

Work Environment & Other Information

Physical requirements include the ability to lift/carry up to 10-60 pounds occasionally, visual acuity, mental effort, speech, and hearing, hand and eye coordination, and manual dexterity necessary to operate a computer.

Subject to standing, sitting, walking, climbing stairs, bending, stooping, squatting, kneeling, pushing, pulling, reaching, twisting, balancing, driving, repetitive motion, and client/customer contact to perform the essential functions.

Requires use of protective devices such as masks, goggles, and gloves, and fieldwork with exposure to traffic, public work development sites, construction site hazards, and varying weather conditions.

Work hours: Monday - Friday, 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM, with some holidays, nights, and weekends.