Traffic Engineer (Transportation Engineer III)
Maryland Department of Transportation · Baltimore, MD · 1 mo ago
ManagementFull-time
We need to output HTML fragment with sections for headings where content exists: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. We must not repeat job title. Must include only sections with real specific content. Must preserve all substantive info, not invent. Remove boilerplate like EEO, application instructions, etc. Also remove duplicated lines. Must not include Pay/Schedule/Benefits unless posting actually states them. The posting mentions benefits: "MDOT offers a generous and competitive benefits package. You can learn about our amazing benefits here : MDOT Benefits Guide". Also later: "The state of Maryland offers excellent health and leave benefits, 401k benefits, pension plan, a free transit program, and advanced education and training opportunities." So we have benefits content. Pay: not specified. Schedule: not specified (maybe attendance at evening meetings may be necessary). That's schedule info: "Special Requirements Attendance at evening meetings may be necessary according to project schedules and requirements." That's schedule-related. So we can include Schedule section with that line. Pay: no specific salary or pay range, so we should NOT include Pay section.
We need sections: About the role (nature of work), Responsibilities (duties), Requirements (minimum qualifications, selective qualifications, etc.), Qualifications (maybe preferred qualifications?), Skills (maybe abilities listed), Benefits, Schedule.
We must not repeat job title. Use for each section heading. Use
for each section heading. Use - for any list of duties/requirements/benefits. Use
for prose.
We must preserve all substantive information. Must not invent or summarize away detail. Must not include boilerplate like EEO, application instructions, etc. Must remove duplicated lines.
Let's extract content.
From description:
- Nature of Work: This position is responsible for preparing and supporting travel demand forecasts and technical analyses for complex planning, design, and construction projects across SHA as well as other MDOT agencies and local partners. This role applies traffic engineering principles, simulation tools, and forecasting methods to assess existing and future conditions; performs operational and safety analyses; assists with consultant task management; and conducts field observations as needed. Duties include developing and reviewing traffic analysis models, technical reports and memos, coordinating project schedules and activities with internal and external stakeholders, and representing the division in meetings and public forums. This position reviews traffic impact studies, prepares traffic forecasts and title sheet data for design offices, evaluates Maintenance of Traffic plans, and requests and validates traffic and crash data. The Traffic Engineer supports updates to division procedures, reference materials, and online content, and contributes to agency initiatives. These initiatives include the Maryland Mobility Report, Congestion Management Studies, the Attainment Report, the Consolidated Transportation Program, the Connected and Automated Vehicle efforts, the Pedestrian Safety Action Plan, and related mobility and safety programs. Collaboration and coordination with other offices on data needs, performance measures, and analytical methods is also an essential part of the role.
That's nature of work and duties combined. We can split: About the role (nature of work) and Responsibilities (duties). But we must not duplicate. Could put nature of work in About the role paragraph, and then list duties as
.
Let's list duties explicitly from that paragraph:
- preparing and supporting travel demand forecasts and technical analyses for complex planning, design, and construction projects across SHA as well as other MDOT agencies and local partners.
- applying traffic engineering principles, simulation tools, and forecasting methods to assess existing and future conditions.
- performing operational and safety analyses.
- assisting with consultant task management.
- conducting field observations as needed.
- developing and reviewing traffic analysis models, technical reports and memos.
- coordinating project schedules and activities with internal and external stakeholders.
- representing the division in meetings and public forums.
- reviewing traffic impact studies.
- preparing traffic forecasts and title sheet data for design offices.
- evaluating Maintenance of Traffic plans.
- requesting and validating traffic and crash data.
- supporting updates to division procedures, reference materials, and online content.
- contributing to agency initiatives (list initiatives).
- collaboration and coordination with other offices on data needs, performance measures, and analytical methods.
We can keep as list.
Now Requirements: Minimum qualifications, selective qualifications, notes about substitution, licenses & certifications, special requirements (attendance at evening meetings maybe schedule). Also additional info like bilingual encouraged, etc. But we should keep substantive qualifications.
Minimum Qualifications:
- Education: Possession of a bachelor's degree in engineering from an accredited college or university.
- Experience: Two (2) years of experience in professional engineering.
- Selective Qualification: Two (2) years of the required experience must have involved traffic/transportation engineering/analysis and/or transportation data/planning experience.
Notes:
- Additional work experience in professional engineering, or in technical engineering at the journey level or above, may be substituted on a year for year basis for the required education.
- Possession of a master's degree in engineering may be substituted for one year of the required experience.
- Persons currently registered as Professional Engineers in the State of Maryland, or in a state with comparable requirements, are considered to have met the education requirements.
- Licenses & Certifications: Candidate must possess a motor vehicle operator's license valid in the state of Maryland.
Special Requirements: Attendance at evening meetings may be necessary according to project schedules and requirements.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience in traffic analysis, traffic simulation tools, and travel demand models preferred.
- Ability to communicate effectively both orally and in writing and possess good customer service skills.
- Ability to handle multiple tasks, exercise initiative and sound judgment.
Skills: maybe we can extract abilities: communication, customer service, multitasking, initiative, judgment. Also maybe traffic analysis, simulation tools, travel demand models.
We'll create Skills section with those.
Benefits: MDOT offers a generous and competitive benefits package. You can learn about our amazing benefits here: MDOT Benefits Guide. Also: The state of Maryland offers excellent health and leave benefits, 401k benefits, pension plan, a free transit program, and advanced education and training opportunities.
We'll list benefits as list.
Schedule: Attendance at evening meetings may be necessary according to project schedules and requirements.
Now we must not include boilerplate like EEO, application instructions, etc. Also remove duplicated lines. Ensure we preserve all substantive info.
We'll output HTML fragment:
About the role
... nature of work paragraph ...
Responsibilities
- ...
...
Requirements
- Education: Possession of a bachelor's degree in engineering from an accredited college or university.
- Experience: Two (2) years of experience in professional engineering.
- Selective Qualification: Two (2) years of the required experience must have involved traffic/transportation engineering/analysis and/or transportation data/planning experience.
- Additional work experience in professional engineering, or in technical engineering at the journey level or above, may be substituted on a year for year basis for the required education.
- Possession of a master's degree in engineering may be substituted for one year of the required experience.
- Persons currently registered as Professional Engineers in the State of Maryland, or in a state with comparable requirements, are considered to have met the education requirements.
- Licenses & Certifications: Candidate must possess a motor vehicle operator's license valid in the state of Maryland.
- Special Requirements: Attendance at evening meetings may be necessary according to project schedules and requirements.
But note special requirements also could go to Schedule section. We'll keep it in Requirements maybe but also we have Schedule section. To avoid duplication, we could put special requirement in Schedule. However the instruction: include a section ONLY when posting has real specific content for it. So we can have Schedule section with that line. Then we should not duplicate it in Requirements. So we remove special requirement from Requirements and put in Schedule.
Thus Requirements will not include special requirement.
Now Preferred Qualifications could go under Qualifications section? The heading "Qualifications" is allowed. We'll put both minimum and selective qualifications under Requirements? Actually we have Requirements for mandatory qualifications, and Qualifications for preferred qualifications. Or we could combine but better to follow headings: Requirements (mandatory), Qualifications (preferred). Skills separate.
Thus:
Requirements
- Education: Possession of a bachelor's degree in engineering from an accredited college or university.
- Experience: Two (2) years of experience in professional engineering.
- Selective Qualification: Two (2) years of the required experience must have involved traffic/transportation engineering/analysis and/or transportation data/planning experience.
- Additional work experience in professional engineering, or in technical engineering at the journey level or above, may be substituted on a year for year basis for the required education.
- Possession of a master's degree in engineering may be substituted for one year of the required experience.
- Persons currently registered as Professional Engineers in the State of Maryland, or in a state with comparable requirements, are considered to have met the education requirements.
- Licenses & Certifications: Candidate must possess a motor vehicle operator's license valid in the state of Maryland.
Qualifications
- Experience in traffic analysis, traffic simulation tools, and travel demand models preferred.
- Ability to communicate effectively both orally and in writing and possess good customer service skills.
- Ability to handle multiple tasks, exercise initiative and sound judgment.
Skills: maybe we can list specific skills: traffic analysis, traffic simulation tools, travel demand models, communication, customer service, multitasking, initiative, judgment. But that overlaps with Qualifications. Perhaps we can combine Qualifications and Skills? But we need to follow instruction: use headings only when posting has real specific content. The posting does not have a separate "Skills" heading; but we can create Skills section if we have specific skill content not covered elsewhere. However the abilities listed are essentially skills. Could put them under Skills instead of Qualifications. But we already used Qualifications for preferred qualifications. Might be okay to have both Qualifications and Skills, but risk duplication. Better to merge: Use Qualifications for both preferred qualifications and skills. Or we could have Skills separate listing technical skills: traffic analysis, traffic simulation tools, travel demand models, etc. And Qualifications for education/experience. Let's decide.
The posting includes "Preferred Qualifications" bullet list. Those are qualifications. So we can put them under Qualifications. Skills could be things like "traffic analysis, traffic simulation tools, travel demand models, communication, customer service, multitasking, initiative, judgment". But that's essentially same as preferred qualifications. To avoid duplication, we can omit Skills section and just have Qualifications. However the instruction says we can include sections only when posting has real specific content. It didn't require us to use all possible headings. So we can skip Skills if we feel it's redundant. But we need to preserve all substantive info; we already preserved the preferred qualifications content under Qualifications. So we can omit Skills.
Thus sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Benefits, Schedule.
Now Benefits section: list benefits.
We need to avoid duplication: MDOT offers a generous and competitive benefits package. You can learn about our amazing benefits here: MDOT Benefits Guide. Also: The state of Maryland offers excellent health and leave benefits, 401k benefits, pension plan, a free transit program, and advanced education and training opportunities.
We'll list as items.
Now Schedule section: Attendance at evening meetings may be necessary according to project schedules and requirements.
Now About the role paragraph: we need to capture nature of work but not duplicate duties. We'll write a concise paragraph summarizing nature of work: "This position is responsible for preparing and supporting travel demand forecasts and technical analyses for complex planning, design, and construction projects across SHA as well as other MDOT agencies and local partners. This role applies traffic engineering principles, simulation tools, and forecasting methods to assess existing and future conditions; performs operational and safety analyses; assists with consultant task management; and conducts field observations as needed."
That captures nature of
for prose. We must preserve all substantive information. Must not invent or summarize away detail. Must not include boilerplate like EEO, application instructions, etc. Must remove duplicated lines. Let's extract content. From description: - Nature of Work: This position is responsible for preparing and supporting travel demand forecasts and technical analyses for complex planning, design, and construction projects across SHA as well as other MDOT agencies and local partners. This role applies traffic engineering principles, simulation tools, and forecasting methods to assess existing and future conditions; performs operational and safety analyses; assists with consultant task management; and conducts field observations as needed. Duties include developing and reviewing traffic analysis models, technical reports and memos, coordinating project schedules and activities with internal and external stakeholders, and representing the division in meetings and public forums. This position reviews traffic impact studies, prepares traffic forecasts and title sheet data for design offices, evaluates Maintenance of Traffic plans, and requests and validates traffic and crash data. The Traffic Engineer supports updates to division procedures, reference materials, and online content, and contributes to agency initiatives. These initiatives include the Maryland Mobility Report, Congestion Management Studies, the Attainment Report, the Consolidated Transportation Program, the Connected and Automated Vehicle efforts, the Pedestrian Safety Action Plan, and related mobility and safety programs. Collaboration and coordination with other offices on data needs, performance measures, and analytical methods is also an essential part of the role. That's nature of work and duties combined. We can split: About the role (nature of work) and Responsibilities (duties). But we must not duplicate. Could put nature of work in About the role paragraph, and then list duties as
- .
Let's list duties explicitly from that paragraph:
- preparing and supporting travel demand forecasts and technical analyses for complex planning, design, and construction projects across SHA as well as other MDOT agencies and local partners.
- applying traffic engineering principles, simulation tools, and forecasting methods to assess existing and future conditions.
- performing operational and safety analyses.
- assisting with consultant task management.
- conducting field observations as needed.
- developing and reviewing traffic analysis models, technical reports and memos.
- coordinating project schedules and activities with internal and external stakeholders.
- representing the division in meetings and public forums.
- reviewing traffic impact studies.
- preparing traffic forecasts and title sheet data for design offices.
- evaluating Maintenance of Traffic plans.
- requesting and validating traffic and crash data.
- supporting updates to division procedures, reference materials, and online content.
- contributing to agency initiatives (list initiatives).
- collaboration and coordination with other offices on data needs, performance measures, and analytical methods.
We can keep as list.
Now Requirements: Minimum qualifications, selective qualifications, notes about substitution, licenses & certifications, special requirements (attendance at evening meetings maybe schedule). Also additional info like bilingual encouraged, etc. But we should keep substantive qualifications.
Minimum Qualifications:
- Education: Possession of a bachelor's degree in engineering from an accredited college or university.
- Experience: Two (2) years of experience in professional engineering.
- Selective Qualification: Two (2) years of the required experience must have involved traffic/transportation engineering/analysis and/or transportation data/planning experience.
Notes:
- Additional work experience in professional engineering, or in technical engineering at the journey level or above, may be substituted on a year for year basis for the required education.
- Possession of a master's degree in engineering may be substituted for one year of the required experience.
- Persons currently registered as Professional Engineers in the State of Maryland, or in a state with comparable requirements, are considered to have met the education requirements.
- Licenses & Certifications: Candidate must possess a motor vehicle operator's license valid in the state of Maryland.
Special Requirements: Attendance at evening meetings may be necessary according to project schedules and requirements.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience in traffic analysis, traffic simulation tools, and travel demand models preferred.
- Ability to communicate effectively both orally and in writing and possess good customer service skills.
- Ability to handle multiple tasks, exercise initiative and sound judgment.
Skills: maybe we can extract abilities: communication, customer service, multitasking, initiative, judgment. Also maybe traffic analysis, simulation tools, travel demand models.
We'll create Skills section with those.
Benefits: MDOT offers a generous and competitive benefits package. You can learn about our amazing benefits here: MDOT Benefits Guide. Also: The state of Maryland offers excellent health and leave benefits, 401k benefits, pension plan, a free transit program, and advanced education and training opportunities.
We'll list benefits as list.
Schedule: Attendance at evening meetings may be necessary according to project schedules and requirements.
Now we must not include boilerplate like EEO, application instructions, etc. Also remove duplicated lines. Ensure we preserve all substantive info.
We'll output HTML fragment:
- ... ...
- Education: Possession of a bachelor's degree in engineering from an accredited college or university.
- Experience: Two (2) years of experience in professional engineering.
- Selective Qualification: Two (2) years of the required experience must have involved traffic/transportation engineering/analysis and/or transportation data/planning experience.
- Additional work experience in professional engineering, or in technical engineering at the journey level or above, may be substituted on a year for year basis for the required education.
- Possession of a master's degree in engineering may be substituted for one year of the required experience.
- Persons currently registered as Professional Engineers in the State of Maryland, or in a state with comparable requirements, are considered to have met the education requirements.
- Licenses & Certifications: Candidate must possess a motor vehicle operator's license valid in the state of Maryland.
- Special Requirements: Attendance at evening meetings may be necessary according to project schedules and requirements.
- Education: Possession of a bachelor's degree in engineering from an accredited college or university.
- Experience: Two (2) years of experience in professional engineering.
- Selective Qualification: Two (2) years of the required experience must have involved traffic/transportation engineering/analysis and/or transportation data/planning experience.
- Additional work experience in professional engineering, or in technical engineering at the journey level or above, may be substituted on a year for year basis for the required education.
- Possession of a master's degree in engineering may be substituted for one year of the required experience.
- Persons currently registered as Professional Engineers in the State of Maryland, or in a state with comparable requirements, are considered to have met the education requirements.
- Licenses & Certifications: Candidate must possess a motor vehicle operator's license valid in the state of Maryland.
- Experience in traffic analysis, traffic simulation tools, and travel demand models preferred.
- Ability to communicate effectively both orally and in writing and possess good customer service skills.
- Ability to handle multiple tasks, exercise initiative and sound judgment.
About the role
... nature of work paragraph ...
Responsibilities
Requirements
Requirements
Qualifications
- items.
Now Schedule section: Attendance at evening meetings may be necessary according to project schedules and requirements.
Now About the role paragraph: we need to capture nature of work but not duplicate duties. We'll write a concise paragraph summarizing nature of work: "This position is responsible for preparing and supporting travel demand forecasts and technical analyses for complex planning, design, and construction projects across SHA as well as other MDOT agencies and local partners. This role applies traffic engineering principles, simulation tools, and forecasting methods to assess existing and future conditions; performs operational and safety analyses; assists with consultant task management; and conducts field observations as needed."
That captures nature of