Group Manager, Traffic Engineering

Our employee-owned and integrated team of multi-discipline engineering and design professionals has an exciting opportunity for a senior traffic engineer who has a strong technical aptitude combined with a passion for guiding and developing a team of emerging traffic engineering professionals and a desire to lead the growth of our traffic engineering services. As a Group Manager (GM), your primary responsibility will be to coach, mentor, and develop a talented group of traffic engineers.

With insight into our strategic and annual business plan, you will be responsible for outlining development plans for each team member that further their professional growth and align with business needs to advance our service capabilities. Through recurring discussions, you will coach on design practices and standards, provide guidance on addressing design challenges, assist in navigating discipline coordination efforts, and encourage them to take on more autonomous responsibilities and stretch assignments.

Additionally, you will assess team capabilities and capacity against project scope and overall deliverables commitments to assemble project teams, delegate applicable design tasks, review work in accordance with applicable standards and QA/QC processes, and oversee deliverable progress in relation to submittal schedules. In alignment with current practices and emerging trends, you will also be responsible for identifying, advocating for, developing, and expanding the depth and breadth of traffic engineering capabilities for the collective team.

In collaboration with other group managers, you will be responsible for advancing our traffic engineering services and enhance our reputation by contributing to market and client development marketing plans, cultivating and maintaining relations with stakeholders, tracking prospective opportunities, developing proposals, and delivering qualifications presentations. From a design capacity, you will be seen as a technical expertise resource regarding traffic engineering operations and will therefore be responsible for providing technical guidance and insight to project teams and project managers throughout the full lifecycle of a project.

As is deemed necessary and applicable, you will assume project manager responsibilities for single and multi-discipline projects ranging in complexity from basic to moderate and from $10K to $1M in service fees. Additionally, you will assist with proposal development for project pursuits by providing input on team capabilities and capacities in relation to project scope and anticipated delivery commitments and participate in qualifications presentations or project interviews.

For this opportunity we are seeking a qualified professional who resides within a regular commuting distance of our MSP / Bloomington, MN location. TKDA provides employees with flexible hybrid (3 days in office, 2 days remote) work arrangements.

• BS in Civil Engineering with progressive experience focused on traffic analysis, modeling, and design.
• Professional Engineer and a certified PTOE.
• Progressive experience leading traffic related design and/or plan development for roundabouts, traffic signals, construction staging, maintenance of traffic, signing, striping, and lighting; progressive experience conducting traffic operations analysis, forecasting, and modeling; extensive experience coordinating design requirements with other transportation disciplines including planning, highway design, and structures/bridge.
• Minimum of two years of experience managing multi-disciplined projects, $10k-$250k; strong knowledge of the project development process including coordination delivery requirements and schedules with other disciplines during design and construction.
• Prior experience actively coaching, mentoring, and developing emerging traffic engineering professionals.
• Demonstrated ability to delegate design tasks/responsibilities as appropriate and provide on-the-job training when necessary to allow for an increased focus on people and project management tasks.
• Previous experience engaging in business development activities including: contributing to proposal preparations, preparing fee estimates, defining project scopes, developing team arrangements, and participating in project interviews and qualifications presentations.
• Superior focus on quality demonstrated by an ability adhere to design requirements, utilize and/or implement thorough quality review measures, and continuously evaluate practices to ensure technical accuracy and enhance project delivery methods.
• Demonstrated comfort and confidence in being viewed as a technical expertise resource and ability to exercise authority in addressing design challenges related to area of specialization.
• Strong working knowledge of design software (Micro Station, AutoCAD, etc.) and traffic simulation and modeling software (Synchro/Sim Traffic, VISSIM, CUBE, etc.).
• Flexibility to travel as needed to conduct on-site project…