Traffic Project Engineer

ITS Traffic Project Engineer

Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets. We are more than 36,000 people, in over 70 countries, dedicated to improving quality of life. Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds, together we can solve the world's most complex challenges and deliver more impact together.

Arcadis is seeking an ITS Traffic Project Engineer to join the Intelligent Mobility Services Team in Nashville, TN. You will have the opportunity to work alongside senior program managers, project managers, and engineers to lead the delivery for programs and projects across the Southeast.

This is a hybrid position, candidates local to Nashville, TN preferred. Candidates will have the ability to work a hybrid schedule but will be required to attend internal and external client meetings in person at client site and in office as needed.

The ITS Traffic Project Engineer will sit within the larger Global Mobility Business Area. We partner with our clients across the globe to design thriving and connected cities and communities that enable opportunity for all and keep the world moving. Climate change, urbanization and digitization trends are requiring today's mobility projects and systems to address an evolving set of demands from the world's growing population.

We design connected, sustainable solutions that integrate existing infrastructure with new technologies, and optimize the mobility of people and goods.

As a client-facing engineer and project manager in traffic engineering, your role would involve a range of responsibilities focused on improving safety and operations. You will have the opportunity to work alongside senior program managers, project managers, and engineers to lead the delivery for programs and projects across the Southeast.

• Develop and manage scope, schedule, and budget for projects and programs.
• Provide written and verbal updates on the status of projects to clients and internal senior management.
• Present technical results and recommendations to clients.
• Coordinate with a wide range of subject matter experts including survey, roadway design, and environmental to successfully deliver client projects.
• Work with client managers and operational leaders to develop project pursuit strategies and plans.
• Utilize knowledge and experience conducting and documenting traffic studies following nationally accepted modeling practice.
• Assist engineers in developing technical approaches and review technical results prepared by others.
• Support the project team in the preparation of traffic engineering plans for signal designs, signing and marking designs, conceptual designs for intersections, and/or Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) designs.
• Under leadership of senior program managers, coordinate and interface with clients to discuss technical elements of the project and present analysis results.
• Provide training and guidance to junior engineers and interns in areas of technical proficiency and consultancy.

Required Qualifications:

• 3+ years of relevant work experience
• Bachelor's Degree in Civil Engineering, Electrical Engineering or similar field
• EIT with ability to obtain TN PE within 1 year of hire
• Must possess a U.S. Driver's License
• Experience with Traffic Analysis and Engineering Principles

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master's Degree in Transportation Engineering preferred, not required
• Experience in one or more of the following areas: TDOT design standards, ITS design, traffic operations studies, intersection conceptual drafting, or safety studies preferred
• Experience/familiarity with Microstation and/or Bentley Open Roads preferred
• Experience managing large tasks and/or projects
• Experience with TDOT or NDOT clients and projects
• Experience in operational and/or safety analysis preferred
• Understanding of the use of traffic analysis tools including VISSIM, Sidra, Synchro/Sim Traffic, and HCS preferred, not required
• Understanding of the application of traffic operations principles including ITE, MUTCD, AASHTO, and state DOT requirements,…