Senior Technical Manager, Traffic Engineering

This Opportunity Job Summary

Provides subject matter technical support and leadership for multi‑site/phase project investigation, remediation, analysis, improvement, planning, engineering, design, and operation of streets and highways, their networks, adjacent land uses, and interaction with other modes of transportation and their terminals and serves as a senior technical leader and trusted advisor to NJDOT, NJTA, and New Jersey County agencies, leading projects from Concept Development through Construction and provides technical authority defining QA/QC standards and delivery approaches.

Responsibilities include capacity analyses, reviewing permitting, and engaging in the design, concept development, and construction of roadways, traffic patterns, and traffic signal design and timing. 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.

• Provide oversight with collecting, compiling, and analyzing data from the physical work site, surveys, blueprints, GIS data, maps, technical data, and other matrices for project development, design, and construction.
• Apply high‑level professional, civil, and traffic engineering techniques and processes to identify improvements for various project phases involving more complex roadway transportation engineering work including concept development, preliminary design, final design, procurement, construction and operation.
• 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.
• Lead traffic engineering scope for NJDOT/NJTA/New Jersey County projects across CD, PE, FD, and construction phases.
• Develop and design innovative concepts for larger scale complex intersection and strategic corridor improvements, including near term initiatives and longer term capital improvement projects and studies that require coordination with authorities, sub‑consultants, and clients.
• Design larger–scale more involved traffic layout, communications networks, and traffic signal improvements to facilitate remote, real‑time corridor operations.
• Design and/or oversight of development of maintenance and protection of traffic (MPT) schemes for traffic control, staging and sequencing of construction activities on projects of all sizes, in coordination with other discipline leads.
• Involved from project inception to completion in the management of design and construction of traffic projects, including pavement rehabilitation and reconstruction, grading, drainage, pavement design, specifications, phasing, and construction safety plans.
• 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.
• Verify the characteristics of more complex sites, providing technical assistance on larger‑scale traffic engineering studies, capacity analyses, traffic complaint investigation, traffic plan review, signal system design, monitoring and control, and operations analysis to ensure roadways are designed in a safe and efficient way and the driver is provided with…