Florida Traffic Practice Lead

Barge Design Solutions•Orlando, FL

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About The Position

The Florida Traffic Practice Leader provides leadership to one of Barge's Transportation regions. This role is responsible for hiring, developing, and managing technical staff in the region, and partners with Project Managers to assign technical resources to projects. This role is also responsible for ensuring that skills and capabilities match our clients' needs and that project costs are kept within established budgets. The success metrics for this role are quality delivery, adherence to project budgets, utilization, and employee experience.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in engineering or related field from accredited program
Professional Engineer (PE) registration in Florida (or ability to obtain within six months)
Have a thorough understanding of FDOT requirements and project delivery to define schedules and ensure timely execution and delivery of complex engineering projects.
Minimum of 10 years' relevant experience, preferably encompassing a variety of assignments involving traffic planning, traffic design, ITS design, and/or operations, such as:
Traffic signal design
Development and implementation of corridor signal timing plans
ITS and communications network design
Transportation planning studies, including evaluation of alternative solutions for corridors, intersections, and/or interchanges
Planning and design of multimodal improvements, including pedestrian, bicycle, and transit facilities
Public outreach in support of planning studies
Traffic forecasting
Traffic operational analysis
Safety studies
Intersection Control Evaluation (ICE), benefit-cost analysis
Signing/pavement marking design
Strong understanding and experience in the use of policies, standards, and specifications of FHWA, AASHTO, state DOT's and municipalities
Experience/ familiarity with traffic engineering and planning software (HCS, Synchro, Vistro, ArcGIS)
Ability to research and learn innovative solutions and best practices in the industry
Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
Strong organizational skills, preferably including experience supervising and developing junior staff

Nice To Haves

Previous business development experience preferred
Business administration and leadership development training preferred

Responsibilities

Provide oversight and leadership of the Traffic discipline for the region
Forecast and develop the discipline's staff mix to align with business sector growth projections
Develop and promote policies and standard procedures to improve project delivery
Work to reduce the discipline's project delivery costs to help drive competitive status
Attend client meetings, manage technical expertise to provide subject matter support
Act as a technical advisor for various projects and programs
Provide input to proposals and Project Management Plans
Act as a technical lead on portions of larger complex projects
Continue to strengthen relationships with clients, sectors, direct reports, and others
Play active role in advising and executing strategic and business planning activities
Promote a great work environment for the region
Embrace our Purpose, Vision, and Values and champion this with direct reports
Perform other duties as assigned