Transportation Engineering - Graduate

Overview Performs professional engineering and project management work related to transportation programs, operations, and facilities. Operates and maintains the City's traffic control system, signing and striping, and residential traffic management programs.
Responsibilities Prepares, reviews, and approves the design, supporting calculations, specifications, and estimates for a wide variety of transportation engineering projects, including but not limited to; traffic signals, signing and striping, temporary traffic control, and event traffic management.
Conducts or oversees studies and prepares reports and correspondence related to traffic control issues; presents associated information to City Council, the Planning Commission, local neighbourhood advisory committees, and civic groups.
Supports the preparation of grant applications with technical review of proposed project scope and cost estimate, participation in meetings, and review of drafts prepared by the division’s planning staff.
Provides assistance regarding traffic safety issues to other City departments, such as evaluating vertical speed reduction treatments and traffic signal priority systems for improved emergency response, analyzing speed data for enforcement, and recommending devices appropriate to restrict access to the pier, as required.
Directs the design and implementation of traffic signal devices. Operates, and monitors the City’s traffic signal system, including providing technical expertise in identifying and correcting signal operational problems, programming signal operations, coordinating parameters, and reporting malfunctions.
Directs and/or performs the collection of traffic and other related data, such as traffic volume, capacity origin and destination, speed, accident reports, and pedestrian and bicycle counts in order to prepare reports, tables, maps, and graphs related to traffic and pedestrian safety, road and intersection design, and traffic control.
Issues work orders, specifications, and standards for new or revised traffic control devices. Responds to non-routine public requests for traffic control changes. Provides technical guidance to transportation planning, traffic operations, and other City staff. Leads and coordinates the work of others, including division staff, contractors, and consultants to ensure that work is completed on schedule, within budget, and in accordance with the terms of the contracts and the division’s work plan.
Performs project management work, including monitoring status, design, budgets, and account balances for transportation engineering projects.
Reviews local traffic operating conditions in the field.
Prepares capital project scoping and cost estimate reports. Performs inspection of contractors’ field layout and completed work to ensure compliance with contract documents.
Ensures the division’s compliance with applicable ordinances, regulations, and standards for a variety of projects.
Requirements Read, interpret, and check engineering drawings and designs, including specifications, cost estimates, and signal timing and phasing plans
Prepare calculations to support engineering designs in accordance with applicable codes
Develop comprehensive programs for the analysis and implementation of new traffic engineering strategies
Identify the need for change orders and evaluate the financial status of projects
Prepare traffic control and construction phasing plans
Prepare recovery schedules to ensure completion of projects in a timely manner
Direct and monitor the installation of traffic control devices
Interpret and apply policies, codes, and regulations
Communicate effectively, both orally and in writing
Provide effective customer service
Graduation from an accredited college or university with a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering or a closely related field.
Experience: Four years of paid, work experience in transportation engineering, transportation management, civil engineering, or a closely related field. Two years of the required experience must include project management and municipal engineering experience.
License and Certificates Possession of a valid Class C driver license or the ability to utilize an alternative method of transportation when needed to carry out job-related essential functions.
Registration as a Professional Civil Engineer (PE) in the State of California.
Registration as a Traffic Engineer (TE) in the State of California is desirable.
Employment type Contract
Job function Engineering, Management, and Other
Civil Engineering, Transportation Programs, and Ground Passenger Transportation

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