Engineer-In-Training III - Denver, Traffic Operations

Position: ENGINEER-IN-TRAINING III - Denver, Traffic Operations

ENGINEER-IN-TRAINING III - Denver, Traffic Operations

This position is only open to Colorado state residents.

New employees to the State will be paid biweekly. There are 26 biweekly pay periods in a year.

"The 2024 Step Pay Program may increase the salary range for employees with time in the class series."

About the Unit

The Traffic Safety & Engineering Services unit exists to provide highway safety and traffic operations-related input for transportation planning and project development to improve operations through multiple programs and projects. They include Standards, Specifications, reviewing products for CDOT use, Traffic Incident Management, Traffic Modeling, Bottleneck Reduction, Operations Analysis, Safety Crash Analysis, and Field studies.

About the Position

The Engineer in Training III will work under the supervision and direction of a licensed Professional Engineer: a fully-operational, non-licensed engineer providing expertise to the unit and Regions for operations, traffic engineering, data collection to assist with asset and program management, and Transportation Systems Management and Operations (TSM&O) implementations. This position, under the guidance and supervision of a Professional Engineer, reviews or prepares evaluations for construction projects and highway corridors as requested by the regions.

Assist and oversee the management of operations and safety programs by evaluating, ranking, and selecting projects proposed by local agencies and CDOT Regions. Perform traffic studies, simulation, crash analysis, signal warrant studies, intersection analysis, and traffic operation analysis for safety projects and upon region requests.

Major duties and responsibilities are performed under the supervision of a licensed Professional Engineer and include, but are not limited to the following:
Operations Evaluations

• A junior subject matter expert conducting research, information collection, plan, specification review, interviews, field reviews, procedures, and processes to complete or administer Operations Evaluations.
• Reviews projects from a traffic operation engineering perspective to evaluate before and after impacts of operations recommendations.
• Assisting and conducting assessments, discovering patterns on state highways that must be corrected and reviewing safety data to ensure that proposed corrections will improve safety.
• Consider the impacts of traffic operation improvements on freight, pedestrians, bicyclists, transit, commuting, local agencies, zoning, signal timing, planning, and future projects.
• Provide traffic engineering review of planning, feasibility, system-level, and National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) studies.
• Perform as an administrator for the Operations Evaluation Web tool and traffic engineering tools.
• Provide advice on how to complete Operations Evaluations.
• Coordinate operation evaluation compliance within the region and provide analysis for all projects requested by region traffic units.

Traffic Operations Engineering and Data Analysis

• Assist in traffic data analysis, database management, and data entry as needed for asset management, The Strategic Highway Research Program 2 (SHRP2), The Hot Spot Program (HOTSPOTS), Congestion relief, Rural Access Mobility Platform (RAMP), Funding Advancements for Surface Transportation and Economic Recovery Act (FASTER), and other CDOT or federal programs as required.
• Conduct regional data collection, analysis, and inspection of needs, and relate causality to roadway geometrics, traffic control devices, crash data, intersection operations, turning movements, signals, and traffic operations using highway and traffic engineering principles.
• Collect and analyze data using available resources and provide innovative solutions to issues. Make recommendations based on available data.
• Assist in Operations, Signals, and Safety data for Colorado, CDOT, and Colorado Local agencies as experience is gained by completing projects and tasks.
• Analyzes the impact of speed and school study engineering reviews in coordination with the Field Regulatory Operation.
• Collaborate with experienced professional engineer personnel to resolve these issues.
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