Senior Traffic / Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) Engineer

About the role

AECOM is seeking a Senior Traffic / Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) Engineer to join our growing Transportation team in Traverse City, Michigan. The role involves working with MDOT, Michigan counties, cities, townships, and other public‑sector clients to develop practical transportation solutions while helping expand AECOM’s presence throughout Southeast Michigan. The position offers opportunities to lead technical assignments, contribute to proposals, mentor engineers, and build relationships with transportation agencies across Michigan. This role follows a hybrid work model.

Responsibilities

• Lead and perform traffic engineering, traffic operations, and ITS assignments for MDOT, counties, municipalities, and other public‑sector clients.
• Lead and support project management activities including scope and fee development, staffing, scheduling, budgeting, risk management, quality control, and client communication.
• Develop and manage ITS planning and design efforts, including intelligent transportation systems architecture, communications, device deployment, systems integration, and operational strategies.
• Provide construction‑phase and implementation support, including field coordination, shop drawing reviews, RFIs, system integration, testing, commissioning, and acceptance of traffic signal and ITS systems.
• Lead traffic signal design, signal timing, operations, optimization, and modernization projects.
• Perform traffic operations analyses and develop recommendations related to intersections, corridors, signal systems, congestion, safety, and multimodal transportation.
• Prepare plans, specifications, technical reports, traffic studies, design documentation, cost estimates, and other engineering deliverables.
• Lead plan production and technical quality control, including design reviews, quantity development, specifications, cost estimates, constructability reviews, and resolution of agency review comments.
• Serve as a technical lead and client‑facing project representative on transportation projects throughout Michigan and the broader Midwest.
• Develop innovative and practical solutions that integrate traffic engineering, ITS, signal systems, and transportation technology.
• Support business development activities, including identifying opportunities, developing client relationships, participating in interviews, and preparing winning proposals.
• Prepare and contribute to technical approaches, scopes of work, project descriptions, staff qualifications, and other proposal materials.
• Develop and maintain strong working relationships with MDOT, county road agencies, municipalities, regional transportation organizations, and other transportation stakeholders.
• Coordinate with multidisciplinary teams including roadway, transportation planning, civil, electrical, technology, and construction professionals.
• Mentor and provide technical guidance to junior and mid‑level traffic and ITS engineers.
• Support project managers with scope development, scheduling, budgeting, quality control, and client communication.
• Contribute to the growth of AECOM's traffic and ITS practice in Michigan by combining technical expertise with strong client service and business development capabilities.

Requirements

Minimum Requirements: Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering from an ABET accredited university, Transportation Engineering, or related discipline and 8+ years of relevant traffic/ITS engineering experience or demonstrated equivalency of experience and/or education (working knowledge of traffic engineering design software and CAD platforms commonly used for transportation projects, such as MicroStation/OpenRoads, Synchro, and related analysis/design tools).

Qualifications

Preferred Qualifications: Significant experience in ITS planning, design, systems engineering, and implementation; significant experience with traffic signal design, signal operations, timing, optimization, and related systems; Professional Engineer (PE) license and Professional Traffic Operations Engineer (PTOE) certification and/or ability to obtain a Michigan PE license within 3 months of hire; demonstrated experience providing traffic engineering services for MDOT, county road agencies, municipalities, or other public‑sector transportation clients; experience developing and maintaining