04566 - Eng Traffic Design

Virginia Department of Transportation • Colonial Heights, VA

4d • $77,276 - $125,574 • Onsite

About The Position

This role involves providing technical advice, guidance, and training in assigned engineering program areas. The position requires preparing analyses, reports, and recommendations based on engineering determinations, and offering engineering support and consultation. A key responsibility is effectively managing assigned projects to ensure timely and accurate completion. Communication with internal VDOT staff, local government staff, consultants, citizens, and FHWA regarding transportation projects and programs is essential. The core function is to design, manage, and produce traffic control device plans accurately and precisely, utilizing good engineering judgment within established budgets and schedules, and adhering to federal and state standards, guidelines, and policies. The role also includes overseeing and training other team members, maintaining high skills in design technologies and construction methodologies, and providing extraordinary customer service.

Requirements

• Ability to apply engineering principles and practices.
• Ability to communicate effectively orally and in writing with diverse groups.
• Ability to draw rational conclusions and develop solutions from analysis; make independent decisions; and manage multiple assignments.
• Ability to enforce and demonstrate safety behaviors, as well as advocate and practice safety in everyday work activities.
• Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with others.
• Ability to interpret and use construction plans, MUTCD, VA Supplement to MUTCD.
• Ability to interpret technical data and prepare and maintain detailed reports.
• Ability to manage multiple projects and priorities with competing deadlines and limited resources.
• Ability to negotiate outcomes and work with diverse customer groups.
• Ability to provide detailed reports on review findings.
• Ability to read and understand highway construction plans.
• Ability to use Road and Bridge Specifications and Standards and various other manuals.
• Ability to use internal computer programs, such as PCES, FALCON and Transport.
• Knowledge of engineering specifications and standards.
• Knowledge of VDOT, state, and federal policies and procedures relating to transportation engineering.
• Knowledge of civil or traffic engineering principles and practices in traffic control devices.
• Knowledge of project development process, policies, guidelines, or regulations related to traffic control devices and ITS elements.
• Knowledge of project management procedures and principles.
• Knowledge of traffic design and review traffic control device plans.
• Skill in providing and promoting good customer service to internal and external customers.
• Skill in the use of computers and software applications to include MS Office, project management and engineering software programs.
• Skilled in MS office software and use of traffic engineering design programs.
• Ability to plan, coordinate, prioritize multiple assignments within set timeframes.
• Ability to train and evaluate the work of others.
• Communicate effectively orally and in writing with internal and external customers.
• Knowledge of civil engineering principles and practices related to traffic control devices.
• Knowledge of project development process, policies, guidelines, or regulations related to traffic control devices and ITS elements.
• Skilled in MS office software and use of traffic eng design programs.

Nice To Haves

• Professional Engineers License.
• Traffic Control Device design.
• Traffic engineering practices.
• Highway civil engineering.
• Report writing.
• Evaluation.
• Research.
• Training.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical advice, guidance and training regarding assigned engineering program areas.
• Prepare analyses, reports, and recommendations based on engineering determinations.
• Provide engineering support and consultation related to engineering program area.
• Effectively manage assigned projects to ensure timely and accurate completion.
• Communicate with internal VDOT staff, local government staff, consultants, citizens and FHWA regarding transportation projects and programs.
• Design, manage and produce traffic control device plans in an accurate and precise manner utilizing good engineering judgment within established budgets and schedules and in adherence to federal and state standards, guidelines and policies.
• Oversee the work of and train other team members.
• Maintain high skills in design technologies and construction methodologies.
• Provide extraordinary customer service.
• Analyze and interpret engineering data and information.
• Prepare complete, clear and concise reports and recommendations.
• Establish an effective line of communication between VDOT, contractors, government agencies and the public.
• Investigate issues and resolve complaints.
• Use MicroStation, Guidesign, Geopak and AGI.
• Maintain project information in PcES and Trnsport and other computer programs.
• Use MS Office Suite.
• Design preliminary and final plans of traffic control devices for each project by utilizing iPM and PCES.
• Work with technical staff to accomplish the design and review of any designs developed by consultants or local jurisdictions to ensure work is in accordance with federal, state standards, guidelines, and policies.
• Assure budgets and timelines associated with projects are met.
• Analyze plans and specification revision requests; assure revision is completed in a timely manner, is correct and processed through proper channels established by agency policy.
• Review and process all catalog cuts to ensure conformance with the Contract through proper channels as established by agency policy.
• Keep abreast of new technology, specifications and construction methodologies.
• Assist in updating specs, standards, Traffic Engineering Design Manual and internal memoranda necessary for development of TCD plans.
• Use established VDOT policies and procedures in the development and delivery of engineering projects.
• Ensure engineering projects are completed in compliance with state and federal laws and regulations.
• Plan, schedule and coordinate engineering program activities such that deliverables are met within the established scope and timeline.
• Assist in the management of projects and tasks including development of and managing the scope, schedule, budget, deliverables, change management, quality, and status reports.
• Complete multiple concurrent tasks and assignments, and report updates on their status.
• Maintain quality of project produced by team; perform required checks throughout the process.
• Ensure electronic files are achieved at proper stages of plan development.
• Participate in peer reviews of work done by others.
• Manage special program initiatives and projects as assigned.
• Serve and represent VDOT or assigned program area on various committees and work groups.
• Demonstrate knowledge of utility design and its relation to the plan development process and performs and directs tasks in accordance with project scheduling and in support of VDOT programs.
• Manage time and adjust priorities of task performance as needed.
• Demonstrate customer service and work habits that reflect the VDOT Values, and coordinate the flow of information both orally and in writing.
• Provide guidance in understanding policy requirements, stages of project development, providing training opportunities when necessary and directing consultants when they provide TCD designs.
• Assure the proper staff attend project meetings throughout the life of the project in order to provide input regarding TCD and iTS designs, potential conflicts and right of way requirements.

Benefits

• VDOT employees must abide by VDOTs Code of Ethics and the Commonwealths Standards of Conduct.
• VDOT utilizes a market based pay program, which has been approved by DHRM.
• In support of the Commonwealth’s commitment to inclusion, we are encouraging individuals with disabilities to apply through the Commonwealth Alternative Hiring Process.
• Each agency within the Commonwealth of Virginia is dedicated to recruiting, supporting, and maintaining a competent and diverse work force.
• Equal Opportunity Employer.
• All VDOT positions require pre-employment screenings. These screenings may include the following: Fingerprint based Criminal History Background Check, DMV Record Check, Work History Verification, References, Pre-employment physical, Drug screen.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed