Traffic Engineer

About the Role

HDR's New England Transportation Group is seeking a Traffic Engineer to work on various transportation and safety design projects throughout New England, based in our Boston Office. This role involves producing intersection layout and complete streets practices, pavement marking and signing, maintenance of traffic plans, traffic signal design plans and specifications, Traffic Impact Studies and design study reports, and safety analyses. We're seeking someone who enjoys collaborating with a team and will help enhance the group's technical performance. This person will play an active role in assisting our transportation team in working with state and municipal agencies throughout New England and mentoring younger staff members, helping them develop their engineering skills while providing encouragement and motivation.

Primary Responsibilities

• Perform traffic engineering analysis and design consisting of traffic modeling and analysis, traffic signal design, traffic safety analyses, signing and striping design, safety planning and analysis for strategic highway safety plan development
• Assist with the preparation of traffic signal design plans, signing and striping plans, maintenance of traffic plans and PS&E packages, and work with the roadway design team to evaluate traffic systems and recommend solutions
• Perform crash analysis and safety studies as part of more extensive transportation assessments
• Conduct operational traffic analysis using various modeling tools, ranging from highway capacity software to complex micro-simulation models, and apply results to sound engineering practice; analyze everything from isolated intersections and roundabouts to urban arterials and freeway segments
• Write traffic impact and transportation assessment reports to communicate analysis results and recommendations clearly and present findings to the team
• Perform detailed checks and quality control reviews of design work performed by other design team members
• Perform as traffic engineering task leader, coordinating with other disciplines
• Perform other duties as needed

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree
• Experience with traffic analysis and traffic engineering/design
• Requires professional engineering license recognized by the licensing board for the location of the position offered (e.g., Professional Engineer (PE or P.Eng) license)
• Detailed hands-on experience conducting traffic design using CAD platforms including MicroStation, AutoCAD, and Guide Sign software
• Detailed hands-on experience conducting operational analysis using a variety of analysis and modeling tools specific to support job duties, including HCS, Synchro, VISSIM, and Aimsun
• Detailed hands-on experience conducting safety analysis using a variety of safety software tools including Highway Safety Software
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office, Excel, Word
• Strong verbal and written skills
• An attitude and commitment to being an active participant of our employee-owned culture

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in adaptive signalization, transit signal design, and ITS
• Knowledge and experience with New England transportation agency, Complete Streets, NACTO, FHWA, and AASHTO policies and procedures
• Experience in the design of traffic control tactics, systems management, communications, ITS systems and sequencing plans
• Experience using PTV Vissim, GuideSign, Bluebeam, and Microsoft Office
• Preference given to local candidates
• PTOE Certification
• RSP Certification

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Short and long-term disability insurance
• Life insurance
• Employee assistance program
• Paid time away and parental leave
• Paid holidays
• Retirement savings plan with employer match
• Employee referral bonus
• Tuition reimbursement

Pay

• Boston, MA: $93,072 - $132,960
• Providence, RI: $81,438 - $116,340
• Rocky Hill, CT: $85,316 - $121,880