Traffic Senior Engineer

Bennett Engineering Services•Milpitas, CA

44d•$165,000 - $220,000•Hybrid

About The Position

BENEN seeks a Senior Traffic Engineer who will serve as the future Traffic Practice Lead. This position is responsible for technical excellence, leadership of the traffic discipline, client development, and long-term strategic growth. The ideal candidate brings deep technical experience, strong leadership, and the desire to influence the vision, culture, and market presence of our Traffic Group. This is an ownership track role with direct influence on practice strategy, staffing, client retention, and profitability. The Traffic Division delivers complete traffic engineering solutions for public infrastructure and private development, including traffic signal design, roadway lighting, intelligent transportation systems, pedestrian and roadway safety improvements, multi modal operations, signing, pavement delineation, and work zone traffic control. The Senior Traffic Engineer leads the preparation of traffic studies, traffic operations analyses, and plan, specification, and estimate packages for traffic signals, lighting, ramp metering, transportation electrical systems, signing, pavement delineation, and construction stage traffic handling. The role ensures that all deliverables are technically sound, constructible, compliant with agency standards, and delivered within agreed scope, schedule, and budget while supporting proposals and scopes of work that position BENEN to win and successfully deliver traffic projects.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Civil or Electrical Engineering
Professional Engineer in Civil, Electrical, or Traffic Engineering (CA PE required within 12 months if licensed in another state)
10 years of experience in traffic engineering design, operations, and project delivery
Exceptional understanding of agency standards, traffic signal systems, lighting, ITS, signing, pavement delineation, and staging traffic control
Demonstrated leadership of staff, clients, and project teams
Proficiency in AutoCAD and MicroStation
Ability to lead or oversee Synchro, SimTraffic, AutoTurn, VISUAL, AGI analyses
Ability to interpret and QC detailed traffic engineering deliverables

Responsibilities

Establish and uphold discipline wide design standards, processes, and QAQC expectations
Provide technical guidance, training, and performance coaching to Engineers, Designers, and Technicians
Lead career development, succession planning, and resource forecasting for the Traffic Group
Coordinate with other discipline leads to support firm wide operational goals
Oversee the delivery of traffic engineering projects including scope, schedule, budget, and quality
Provide responsible charge review of plans, specifications, and calculations
Mentor Project Engineers and Designers in technical decision making
Lead multidisciplinary teams through design development and technical reviews
Ensure workload balance across project teams
Serve as primary client manager for key agencies and private sector partners
Ensure project delivery meets or exceeds client expectations
Foster long term relationships that produce sustained and predictable work pipelines
Represent BENEN at industry events, client meetings, and professional conferences
Lead proposal strategy, fee development, and win themes for pursuits
Identify emerging opportunities, market gaps, and multi year growth strategies
Support firm wide revenue planning and forecasting
Position BENEN as a preferred partner for municipal, county, state, and private traffic projects