Senior Traffic Engineering Project Manager

Senior Traffic Engineering Project Manager (Project Management)

Ardurra is seeking a Senior Traffic Engineering Project Manager to join our Central Region team! We are open to candidates in Houston, Austin, Dallas, and San Antonio, Texas!

Ardurra is a multidisciplinary civil engineering services firm which provides broad-based solutions tailored to the specific needs of the public and private sector. We leverage the depth of our professional and technical expertise, as well as our integrated structure, to deliver practical, innovative solutions for our clients.

We have been creating opportunities for our employees to develop both personally and professionally. As a result, our team has contributed to some of the nation's most important infrastructure projects. These are projects that can positively impact people's lives.

Primary Duties:

The Senior Traffic Engineering Project Manager will provide subject matter technical support and leadership for multi-site/phase planning, engineering, design, and operation of streets and highways, their networks, adjacent land uses, and interaction with other modes of transportation.

Responsibilities include capacity analyses, and engaging in the design, concept development, and construction of roadways, traffic patterns, traffic modeling, traffic impact analyses and traffic signal design and timing studies. Provides situational guidance to PMs and managers that address current and future challenges, and that documentation and recommendations accurately account for and address risk, innovation, and future-ready opportunities. Provides leadership with ensuring that responsibilities are delivered and adhered to with a level of quality that meets or exceeds acceptable industry standards for design, safety, and functionality.

Essential Skills and Abilities

• Serve as Project Manager and/or Traffic Engineering Task Lead on transportation planning, concept plan development, and feasibility studies of highway, bridge and other transportation facilities projects.
• Provide guidance and training to entry and mid-level engineers or project members.
• Manage projects or lead/support traffic engineering tasks and monitor scope, schedule, and budget.
• Oversee and monitor cross-functional teams of engineers, planners, and scientific professionals to execute project work on mid-level and/or multiple concurrent projects, including budgets, tracking hours and expenses, task completion, cost and quantities of materials/equipment/labor, technical calculations, permit applications, construction, compliance documentation, and regulatory and technical analysis memos.
• Support related TSMO and ITS projects and implementation efforts.
• Prepare Signing and Pavement Marking design plans and Traffic Signal and Electrical design plans.
• Prepare Traffic Control/Staging (i.e., Maintenance and Protection of Traffic) design plans.
• Perform Crash Analysis, signal timing analysis and Safety Studies.
• Oversee traffic data collection, trip generation, and traffic analysis activities on various projects.
• Prepare engineering design plans, specifications, quantity calculations and cost estimates.
• Support preparation of statements of qualifications and proposals.
• Perform professional traffic engineering work and conduct more complex/comprehensive investigations and inspections of proposed and existing site conditions, roadways, intersections, signage, signals, pavement markings, and transportation corridors to determine conformance with applicable rules, standards, and construction or operating permits.
• Oversees the development and implementation of advanced technologies, monitoring devices, modeling techniques, design requirements, and operating strategies to account for the safety and functionality or end-users, transportation vehicles/systems, and implementing future-ready solutions with traffic engineering design standards.
• Lead larger-scale engineering projects ensuring contributors know what they are required to do and by when, preparing and overseeing relevant project budgets, monitoring external events, tracking hours and expenses, ensuring satisfactory performance, and supervising subcontractors, contract work, and employees.
• Oversee the results of studies and program reviews in order to validate existing and projected roadway and transportation layouts, traffic impacts of proposed developments, and recommended traffic safety enhancement projects on the basis of respective studies.
• Ensure technical reports and presentations explain research, findings, and recommendations to prevent, control, restore, or address engineering, design, and/or construction issues or opportunities.
• Develop a client base for providing high level traffic engineering services including identifying additional business development opportunities.
• Collaborates with professionals from a variety of disciplines, other engineers, planners, and DOT authorities on Federal, State, regional, and locally funded road and transportation improvement and development projects, as…