Transportation Safety Planner or Engineer

VHB•Washington, DC

4d•Hybrid

About The Position

Together, we work to improve mobility, enhance communities and economic vitality, and balance development and infrastructure needs with environmental stewardship. The right candidate would be joining a tight-knit team of transportation planners and traffic safety engineers who value technical excellence, career development, pride in our work, a collaborative team environment, and a passion for finding the right solutions that enhance mobility and safety. At VHB, we’re invested in what we do, compelled by intellectual curiosity, and driven to work collectively to best serve our clients and help shape the future of our communities in a meaningful way. We’re proud, yet humbled, to have been doing this for over 40 years. We are dedicated to making a positive impact and providing opportunities to grow personally and professionally. This position is for a Transportation Safety Planner/Engineer. In this role, you will be part of the Metro DC team and, more specifically, reporting to the VHB office in Washington, DC. The selected candidate will support our clients’ efforts to plan, design, and analyze new and improved transportation facilities that support and enhance mobility for all transportation modes while reducing crashes, saving lives, and preventing injuries.

Requirements

Ability to work well in a collaborative and integrated team environment
Excellent technical writing skills
Excellent verbal and interpersonal communication skills
Is self-motivated and has excellent organization and attention to detail
Ability to think critically and solve problems
Has an enthusiasm to learn and innovate
Ability to take initiative on tasks while still collaborating across the team
Ability to take on leadership of junior staff including providing positive direction, review, and delegation
Ability to work effectively in both in-office and virtual environments
Ability to balance concurrent projects and priorities
Understanding of highway safety fundamentals
Ability to read and interpret federal and state terminology
Understanding of highway safety fundamentals, including behavioral safety factors, and safety treatments
Ability to understand and interpret traffic engineering analysis
Has Road Safety Audit (RSA) experience
Experience with state DOT planning, design, and/or safety work
5+ years of professional transportation engineering and/or planning experience, preferably in a consulting environment, required
Strong interest and foundation in safety and multimodal transportation
BS or MS in Civil Engineering, Planning, or related field
PE or AICP expected
Experience with MicroStation/AutoCAD, Word, Excel, PowerPoint
Experience with multimodal analysis
Familiarity with national and/or local transportation engineering standards, including VDOT, AASHTO, MUTCD, Highway Capacity Manual, Highway Safety Manual and/or ITE guidance documents

Responsibilities

Work within a team of professionals in developing transportation engineering, safety, and planning solutions for multimodal transportation projects
Develop creative solutions to address challenging safety and mobility problems in urban, suburban, and rural environments
Conduct multimodal safety transportation analyses, including both network -wide and individual corridor or intersection safety and improvement studies
Conduct research, prepare reports, and present findings and results to clients, including both taking on a leadership role and also supporting other team members in the development
Be able to lead and interpret data analysis and perform national-level state-of-the-practice and literature reviews
Assist in the development of proposals and scopes of work, track project budgets, and manage tasks
Work within a team of professionals to develop transportation planning and engineering solutions for a multitude of multimodal transportation projects, including the development of conceptual designs
Participate in and lead field data collection and other on-site project support activities
Facilitate meetings and prepare detailed meeting notes
Monitor and update client facing project coordination sites
Prepare technical presentations and materials to support public, stakeholder, or client meetings (in-person and virtual)
Conduct transportation planning and scoping analyses
Work with Federal, state, and local clients on identifying and applying best practices and the development of guidance documents and other publications
Maintain a client-service approach to deliver projects that exceed client expectations
Provide mentorship to junior staff
Be able to lead client and stakeholder meetings, client workshops, and public meetings
Prepare written documents, summarize data, and assemble technical reports
Work within a team of professionals in developing transportation engineering, safety, and planning solutions for multimodal transportation projects