Transportation Engineer III, IV, or V - Laredo District - Traffic Operations

Transportation Engineer III, IV, or V – Laredo District – Traffic Operations

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• Evaluates and makes recommendations for developing, monitoring, and updating integrated project plans and schedules.
• Reviews and supports Standard Operating Procedures for maintaining and archiving project schedules; managing resources; managing budgets; managing project changes, and managing quality performance measurements.
• Coordinates on design schematics, assists with capacity and level of service studies and reviews in-house and consultant traffic control/traffic management/intelligent transportation systems (ITS) plans and projects.
• Coordinates traffic engineering studies and traffic counts.
• Meets with law enforcement agencies and/or city officials to discuss traffic problems and possible solutions.
• Oversees and/or monitors Community Traffic Safety Programs, activities involving preparation of the District Highway Safety Plan and/or the Traffic Safety Office.
• Oversees and/or performs traffic engineering studies to recommend solutions for high accident locations, to warrant traffic signals and speed zones and to determine capacity and channelization of the highways.
• Oversees the operations and maintenance of an ITS operations center/managed area.
• Provides technical expertise in planning, coordinating, maintaining and operating traffic management systems.
• Responsible for Traffic Engineering operations.
• Performs other job responsibilities as assigned.

• Oversees the development and support of transportation operations systems.
• Performs highly advanced and complex engineering design work such as development of layouts, sketches, plans, specifications, estimates and contracts.
• Performs highly advanced and complex planning work such as plan review, calculations and transportation planning studies.
• Performs other job responsibilities as assigned.

• Reviews, develops and supports Standard Operating Procedures for developing, maintaining and archiving project schedules; managing resources; managing budgets; managing project changes, and managing quality performance measurements.
• Oversees and develops plans for complex project(s) related to their resource assignments, schedules, scope, communication, quality, and/or procurement, while utilizing available resources and maintaining the agency's project objectives.
• Provides technical information and guidance regarding innovative and experimental technologies to departmental personnel.
• Serves as a primary help desk resource for highly complex and advanced technical and policy issues.
• Serves as a team member responsible for overseeing all aspects of the research program in assigned technical area.
• Performs other job responsibilities as assigned.

Education:

Bachelor’s degree in engineering or related science. A graduate level education may be used to substitute for experience on a year per year basis.

• Transportation Engineer III – 6 years of engineering, transportation engineering, or related engineering experience (full time or prorated part time).
• Transportation Engineer IV – 7 years of engineering, transportation engineering, or related engineering experience.
• Transportation Engineer V – 8 years of engineering, transportation engineering, or related engineering experience.

• Valid driver’s license at the time of application. This position requires driving a state vehicle.
• Licensed Professional Engineer. Professional engineers licensed in another state must comply with Texas requirements within six months of hire and sign an agreement.

• Statistical analysis methodologies and reporting procedures.
• Transportation principles and methods for moving people or goods by multimodal (road, air, water) methods, including their relative costs, advantages and limitations.
• Construction, operation and maintenance of traffic control devices.
• Traffic management…