Lead Inspector, School Safety, RIS

To be considered for this position, the candidate must be serving permanently in the title of Transportation Specialist, or be reachable on the civil service list.

The Transportation Planning and Management Division (TPM) is responsible for the safe, efficient, and environmentally responsible movement of people and goods on the City’s streets, supporting the larger goals of economic and social vitality for people living, working, and doing business in New York City. The Division’s responsibilities include planning, street design, technical analysis, signals, transit development, freight mobility and markings, and ensuring the safety of motor vehicle occupants, pedestrians, and cyclists.

The Research, Implementation, and Safety unit (RIS) is a multidisciplinary team dedicated to making the streets of New York City safer for all users as part of Vision Zero, a citywide policy striving to eliminate serious injuries and fatalities from traffic crashes. The School Safety unit, a part of RIS, is responsible for improving street safety near K‑12 schools throughout New York City.

School Safety redesigns dangerous corridors and intersections used by NYC students to access schools, works with NYC agencies to improve school safety and operations, and manages curb regulations along all school frontages in NYC.

The School Safety unit is seeking an experienced and highly motivated professional to serve as a Lead Inspector. The candidate will manage a group of inspectors, oversee their work, conduct field investigations, and perform data collection to support School Safety’s projects and programs, primarily focusing on siting and installation of all required signage along K‑12 school frontages in NYC in accordance with NYC DOT engineering standards.

• Supervisory tasks include monitoring workload, performance, and productivity of staff; reviewing work to ensure high quality and adherence to all requirements and standards; coordinating assignments to ensure timely completion; and recommending and implementing process improvements.
• Field investigation and data collection tasks involve detailed curbside/intersection inventories; traffic control and land use assessment; examining street operations; conducting radar speed surveys; collecting traffic/pedestrian volume counts; and managing other data collection requests.
• Additional duties include data entry, using City-specific transportation software (e.g., SIMS program for sign orders), assisting with data analysis, maintaining databases, and preparing relevant forms, reports, correspondence, memos, and logs.
• Candidate must hold a New York State Driver’s License and be able to work outside in all weather conditions.

• 1. A master’s degree in transportation engineering, mathematics, urban planning, architecture, landscape architecture, urban studies, or related physical and social science fields; or
• 2. A baccalaureate degree in engineering from an accredited college and one year of full‑time satisfactory experience performing technical work on roadway transportation and traffic studies and area‑wide traffic programs; or
• 3. A baccalaureate degree from an accredited college and two years of full‑time satisfactory experience as described in “2” above; or
• 4. An associate degree or completion of 60 semester credits from an accredited college and four years of full‑time satisfactory experience as described in “2” above; or
• 5. A four‑year high school diploma or its educational equivalent and six years of full‑time satisfactory experience as described in “2” above.

Special

Note:

In addition to meeting the minimum qualification requirements above, candidates assigned to Assignment Level II must have an additional year of experience as described in “2” above; candidates assigned to Assignment Level III must have an additional two years of experience as described in “2” above.

• Proficiency in Microsoft Word, Excel, and the Sign Information Management System (SIMS).
• Experience conducting field investigations, training staff in investigations, reviewing the work of field inspectors, and strong leadership and supervisory skills.

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