Sr. Traffic Engineer

This Opportunity

WSP is currently initiating a search for a full-time Senior Traffic Engineer for our Lawrenceville, NJ, office. Be involved in projects with our Traffic Engineering Team and be a part of a growing organization that meets our client's objectives and solves their challenges.

Your Impact

• Performance of or supervision over design and analysis tasks in project team setting, including:

• Signing and Pavement Marking Design

• Traffic Signal Design

• Traffic Signal Electrical Design

• Traffic Control/Staging (i.e. Maintenance and Protection of Traffic) Design

• Transportation Planning, concept plan development, and feasibility studies of highway, bridge and other transportation facilities projects

• Crash Analysis and Safety Studies

• Technical Writing and Report Documentation.

• Oversight of traffic operational analysis inputs to design projects.

• Coordination with other disciplines on project teams working on multi-disciplinary projects.

• Oversight and Preparation of engineering design plans, specifications, quantity calculations and cost estimates

• Providing technical support for transportation projects in New Jersey and New York, and assisting other offices as needed.

• 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.

• Perform additional responsibilities as required by business needs.

Who You Are

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Civil Engineering from an accredited program.

• 5 - 7 years of post education experience in traffic engineering design & construction projects.

• Professional Engineer (PE) license is a plus.

• Proficient knowledge of MS Word Package, including Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.

• Proficient 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.

• Working knowledge of traffic engineering software, such as HCS, Synchro & SimTraffic, VISSIM, and/or CORSIM.

• Experience with AutoCAD, Microstation, and working knowledge of AutoTURN and GuidSIGN

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, both with engineering and non-engineering audiences.

• 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.

• Ability to work independently and provide guidance and leadership to junior team or project members, with strict adherence to QA/QC.

• Experience and/or ability to perform field work, including site inventories and traffic data collection.

• Proven track record of upholding workplace safety and ability to abide by WSP's health, safety and drug/alcohol and harassment policies.

• Ability to work schedules conducive to project-specific requirements that may extend beyond the typical workweek.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's Degree in a related field.

• Professional Traffic Operations Engineer (PTOE) certification.

• Familiar with the MUTCD, HCM, HSM, AASHTO, ITE guidelines, ADA Accessibility Guidelines and the NJDOT and NJTA Roadway Design Manuals.

• Experience managing traffic discipline or full project for small to mid-size projects.

• Experience developing construction bid packages, including plans, construction cost estimates, and technical specifications.

• Experience with site trip generation, operational analysis of intersections and roadways, crash and safety analyses, signal design, and/or signing and striping layout and design.

• Experience in Highway Lighting Design.

• Experience working on projects with clients in New Jersey and surrounding region.

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