Senior Technical Manager, Traffic Engineering

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. Acts as a senior technical leader and trusted advisor to NJDOT, NJTA, and New Jersey County agencies, leading projects from concept development through construction and providing technical authority defining QA/QC standards and delivery approaches.

Responsible for capacity analyses, permitting review, and engagement in the design, concept development, and construction of roadways, traffic patterns, and traffic signal design and timing. Offers situational guidance to PMs and managers to address current and future challenges, ensuring documentation and recommendations account for risk, innovation, and future‑ready opportunities. Leads to ensure responsibilities are delivered at a quality level that meets or exceeds 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 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 large‑scale 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 large‑scale traffic layout, communications networks, and traffic signal improvements to facilitate remote, real‑time corridor operations.
• Oversee development 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.
• Manage design and construction of traffic projects, including pavement rehabilitation and reconstruction, grading, drainage, pavement design, specifications, phasing, and construction safety plans from inception to completion.
• Oversee the development and implementation of advanced technologies, monitoring devices, modeling techniques, design requirements, and operating strategies to ensure safety and functionality for end‑users, transportation vehicles/systems, and implementing future‑ready solutions with traffic engineering design standards.
• Lead large‑scale engineering projects, preparing and overseeing relevant project budgets, monitoring external events, tracking hours and expenses, ensuring satisfactory performance, and supervising subcontractors, contract work, and employees.
• Verify characteristics of complex sites, providing technical assistance on 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 safely and efficiently.
• Assist with engineering review of permit applications, design plans and specifications, standby plans and engineering contracts, integrated waste management plans, and periodic construction inspections, ensuring compliance with applicable regulations and sound engineering practice.
• Work closely with developers, builders, and community stakeholders as…