Traffic Design Engineer

Overview

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SEH is currently searching for a Traffic Design Engineer to join our Transportation team.

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• Collaborate on amazing projects of varying size and complexity that positively impact communities
• Being 100% employee-owned means we all share in the company’s success
• Career development through continued education, licensure/certification, skills, and technical training
• Work arrangements that promote work/life balance
• Flexible holidays enable individuals to tailor their festivities
• Paid Family Leave provides time to care for loved ones, whether family by birth or family by choice

SEH is seeking a full-time experienced Traffic Engineer to join an established and collaborative traffic engineering team. This role is suited well for an experienced engineer who enjoys leading and delivering traffic design work across multimodal transportation projects of varying size and complexity to enhance safety, mobility, and system performance. This covers everything from fast, small design assignments and quick-build demonstration builds to major improvements of urban corridors, highways, and interchanges.

• Preparation and coordination of design plans and specifications for traffic engineering items including:
• Traffic signals, hybrid beacons, and rectangular flashing beacons
• Maintenance of Traffic (MOT) and construction phasing
• Traffic signing
• Pavement marking

You will be responsible for managing, directing, and completing tasks or projects for a range of project types including construction, reconstruction and rehabilitation of urban corridors, highways, alternative intersections, interchanges, county and city roadways, bicycle and pedestrian facilities, and demonstration projects.

The successful candidate must demonstrate strong attention to detail, communicate effectively, demonstrate effective teamwork, and have working knowledge of the MUTCD and relevant design guidance and be proficient in the application of quality management and quality assurance processes. You will contribute to review and delivery of traffic design deliverables while playing an important role in the success of a wide range of transportation projects.

• Work and learn from some of our award-winning traffic team leaders: WTS Minnesota Woman of the Year, ASCE MN Outstanding Engineer of the Year and the 2025 Young Transportation Professional of the Year
• Leading traffic design teams, completing traffic design, and providing quality assurance reviews
• Representing technical work with internal and external team members, clients/owners, and other agency and community stakeholders
• Collaborating directly with clients/owners, contractors, and stakeholders to optimize safety, innovation, and constructability
• Applying MUTCD, AASHTO, and state DOT standards to real-world design challenges
• Supporting or leading innovative design solutions on complex and high-profile transportation projects
• Authoring Traffic Management Plans (TMPs) to analyze impacts and mitigation strategies of MOT and…