Lead Traffic Engineering Manager

About the role

This Opportunity WSP is seeking an experienced and highly motivated Traffic Engineering Project Manager to join our New England traffic team in either our Glastonbury, Connecticut or North Providence, RI office.

Responsibilities

• Support the delivery and execution of project scope, objectives, and requirements, ensuring close collaboration and alignment with clients and stakeholders.
• Proactively identify, assess, and mitigate project risks and issues.
• Ensure project deliverables meet high-quality standards and specified requirements.
• Implement rigorous quality review processes, manage version controls, and track comments and resolutions.
• Prepare and present comprehensive project progress statuses using reporting tools and dashboards.
• Maintain and meet defined performance metrics, tracking budget, time, scope, and communication details to ensure projects meet schedule and client expectations.
• Stay current with emerging technologies, industry best practices, and relevant standards.
• Lead and direct multi-disciplinary project teams, including internal staff, sub-consultants, contractors, and vendors.
• Foster a culture of trust, transparency, and accountability.
• Manage internal groups or outside vendors to identify, plan, negotiate contracts, deliver and monitor performance to client specifications.
• Cook up and coordinate with various internal and external partners, including cross-discipline and functional teams, government agencies (i.e., DOTs), and other stakeholders.
• Comfortably present complex technical and project information to diverse audiences, including executives, client teams, and public forums.
• Contribute to and potentially lead the development of technical proposals, scopes of work, and budgeting for projected work.
• Foster technical development and mentoring of staff.
• Exercise responsible and ethical decision-making regarding company funds, resources and conduct, and adhere to WSP’s Code of Conduct and related policies and procedures.
• Perform additional responsibilities as required by business needs.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering; Transportation/Traffic Engineering, preferred, or equivalent years of experience.
• 7-10 years of post-education, progressive experience in traffic signal design, ITS, Safety, Active Transportation and Complete Streets.
• Licensed Professional Engineer in the State of Connecticut or Rhode Island, or another state and able to obtain reciprocity within 6 months of hire.
• PTOE certification (highly preferred).
• Proven experience managing projects with budgets, schedules, and technical requirements.
• Proven experience with CTDOT, RIDOT, and other regional agencies.
• Develop opportunities, manage client relationships, and prepare and proposals.
• Strong leadership, mentoring, and team-building skills.
• Exceptional communication abilities including written, verbal, and public speaking.
• Demonstrated success in proposal writing, client presentations, and strategic project delivery.
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, multidisciplinary environment.
• Passion for innovation, quality, and financial performance.
• Proven track record of upholding workplace safety and ability to abide by WSP’s health, safety and drug/alcohol and harassment policies.
• Strong ability to quickly adapt to change and demonstrate flexibility to a variety of schedules and hours to meet business needs.

Qualifications

• Master’s degree in civil engineering.
• Active engagement in relevant industry organizations.
• Project experience - Traffic operations and safety, signal design, signal timing, Bridge and Interstate Reconstruction, Environmental Impact Statements.
• Expertise in traffic engineering principles & practices, including Traffic signal design and wiring, traffic modeling (HCS, Synchro, Vissim), AutoCAD, MicroStation.
• CTDOT and RIDOT project delivery process.

Skills

• Knowledge of emerging technologies, industry best practices, and relevant standards.
• Leadership, mentoring, and team-building skills.
• Exceptional communication abilities including written, verbal, and public speaking.
• Proposal writing, client presentations, and strategic project delivery.
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, multidisciplinary environment.
• Passion for innovation, quality, and financial performance.
• Adherence to workplace safety and ethical decision-making.
• Flexibility to adapt to change and meet business needs.

Benefits

WSP provides a comprehensive suite of benefits focused on providing health and financial stability throughout the employee’s career. These benefits include coverage related to medical, dental, vision, disability, and life; retirement savings; paid sick leave; paid vacation (or other personal time); paid parental leave; and paid time off for purposes of bereavement, voting, and/or attendance at naturalization proceedings.

Pay

Expected Salary: $110,000 - $165,000

Schedule

Flexible work schedule to meet business needs.

About WSP

ABOUT US WSP USA is the U.S. operating company of WSP, one of the world's leading engineering and professional services firms. Dedicated to serving local communities, we are engineers, planners, technical experts, strategic advisors and construction management professionals. WSP USA designs lasting solutions in the buildings, transportation, energy, water and environment markets. With more than 15,000 employees in over 300 offices across the U.S., we partner with our clients to help communities prosper.

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Contact Information

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