Traffic Engineer

WSP•Virginia Beach, VA

About The Position

WSP is currently seeking an experienced Traffic Engineer for our growing Virginia Traffic practice in our Virginia Beach. This position will be a key hire to help grow our Traffic Engineering practice, including Traffic Engineering design, signal design, traffic analysis, and traffic studies. WSP’s Traffic Group serves clients from around the Commonwealth on a wide variety of projects ranging from signal design and ITS system design, corridor studies, complex roadway projects, and more. This position is an excellent opportunity to continue to enhance design, analysis, and production skills and build relationships within WSP as well as with a large number of clients. Provides high level technical assistance and guidance for operations of streets and highways, their networks, adjacent land uses, and interaction with other modes of transportation and their terminals. Tasks include performing capacity analyses, reviewing permitting, and engaging in the design, concept development, and construction of roadways, traffic patterns, and traffic signal design and timing. Ensures that responsibilities are delivered and adhered to with a level of quality that meets or exceeds acceptable industry standards for design, safety, and functionality. Your Impact Serve as Project Engineer for traffic engineering projects for VDOT and municipal projects. Involved from project inception to completion in the management of design and construction of traffic projects. Support and provide technical expertise to cross-functional teams of engineers, planners, and scientific professionals to execute project work on mid-level and/or multiple concurrent projects, including budgets, tracking hours and expenses, task completion, cost and quantities of materials/equipment/labor, technical calculations, permit applications, construction, compliance documentation, and regulatory and technical analysis memos. Design of traffic control devices including quantities, cost estimates, and specifications for transportation construction bid packages for federal, state and local agencies (intersections, interstate, roadway and rail corridors). Conduct investigations and inspections of proposed and existing site conditions, roadways, intersections, signage, signals, pavement markings, and transportation corridors to determine conformance with applicable rules, standards, and construction or operating permits. May support design-build or other traffic engineering projects as needed. Develop and design innovative concepts for strategic intersection and corridor improvements, including near term initiatives and longer-term capital improvement projects and studies that require coordination with authorities, sub-consultants, and clients. Work on Signal Design and Operational Improvement projects, signal optimization projects. Lead and/or conduct traffic analyses and crash analyses Complete traffic studies as well as traffic impact study review. Signal timing development and implementation. Intersection and corridor improvement studies and interchange modification studies. Safety studies (accident analysis, collision diagrams). Exercise responsible and ethical decision-making regarding company funds, resources and conduct, and adhere to WSP’s Code of Conduct and related policies and procedures.

Requirements

Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering, or closely related discipline.
Ability to obtain P.E. license within 1 year required
3-5 years of relevant post education experience in engineering and prior traffic design experience.
Knowledge of traffic engineering and planning software (HCS, Synchro, VISSIM, ArcGIS).
Proficient and extensive knowledge of traffic engineering principles, practices, process, and design/build related to traffic control equipment, capacity and operational analysis, project management, and related communications systems.
Experience with roadway planning, design, and construction management; including project involvement in a variety of larger and more complex infrastructure projects, rehabilitation and construction of pavement, navigational aids, grading design, and safety management.
Highly proficient with technical writing.
Proven track record of upholding workplace safety and ability to abide by WSP’s health, safety and drug/alcohol and harassment policies.

Nice To Haves

PE license preferred
PTOE license preferred
Master’s Degree in Engineering
VDOT Advanced Work Zone Certification
Skills in MS office suite, Microstation, Autocad, GuidSign, Autoturn, Synchro software programs
ITS design, street lighting design, and VDOT LAP process knowledge

Responsibilities

Serve as Project Engineer for traffic engineering projects for VDOT and municipal projects.
Involved from project inception to completion in the management of design and construction of traffic projects.
Support and provide technical expertise to cross-functional teams of engineers, planners, and scientific professionals to execute project work on mid-level and/or multiple concurrent projects, including budgets, tracking hours and expenses, task completion, cost and quantities of materials/equipment/labor, technical calculations, permit applications, construction, compliance documentation, and regulatory and technical analysis memos.
Design of traffic control devices including quantities, cost estimates, and specifications for transportation construction bid packages for federal, state and local agencies (intersections, interstate, roadway and rail corridors).
Conduct investigations and inspections of proposed and existing site conditions, roadways, intersections, signage, signals, pavement markings, and transportation corridors to determine conformance with applicable rules, standards, and construction or operating permits.
May support design-build or other traffic engineering projects as needed.
Develop and design innovative concepts for strategic intersection and corridor improvements, including near term initiatives and longer-term capital improvement projects and studies that require coordination with authorities, sub-consultants, and clients.
Work on Signal Design and Operational Improvement projects, signal optimization projects.
Lead and/or conduct traffic analyses and crash analyses
Complete traffic studies as well as traffic impact study review.
Signal timing development and implementation.
Intersection and corridor improvement studies and interchange modification studies.
Safety studies (accident analysis, collision diagrams).
Exercise responsible and ethical decision-making regarding company funds, resources and conduct, and adhere to WSP’s Code of Conduct and related policies and procedures.