Engineer II

Agency Dept of Transportation Division State Hwy Administrator - Div of Hwys Job Classification Title Engineer II (NS) Position Number  Grade NC18

It’s the mission of the NC Department of Transportation to connect people, products and places safely and efficiently with customer focus, accountability, and environmental sensitivity to enhance the economy and vitality of North Carolina. We encourage you to consider joining NCDOT where our work not only serves the citizens of North Carolina but has an impact on our world through all modes of transportation.

Please note that all positions close at 12:00 AM on the posted closing date. You must apply by 11:59 PM prior to the posted closing date. The Traffic Safety Project Engineer position is assigned to the Safety Planning Group of the Traffic Safety Systems Section within the Traffic Safety Unit of the Transportation Mobility and Safety Division. The primary purpose of this position is to provide technical leadership, engineering expertise and investigative support for Transportation Improvement Program projects.

Significant involvement in the project development process is required including attending project meetings, providing necessary safety data to support projects throughout the project development process, and communicating traffic safety findings and practices. This position will assist in developing alternative analyses for proposed projects based on Highway Safety Manual methodologies and software. This position will assist in the development, research, documentation and continuous quality improvement of the procedures and methodologies used to evaluate and analyze projects from a safety perspective.

This position will assist with managing the Fatal Crash Review Program. This position is also responsible for providing crash analyses and crash mapping (collision diagrams and GIS mapping) to internal and external customers. This position will assist with managing the NCDOT ordinance program and route change process. This position requires an understanding of the technical aspects of traffic engineering principles, methods, techniques, and analytical highway safety skills in order to improve the Section’s expertise, efficiency, and production, while maintaining the high engineering standards required by the Department of Transportation.

This position must have a basic knowledge of traffic engineering concepts, particularly those pertaining to engineering countermeasures for traffic crash analyses, which includes preparing collision diagrams, GIS mapping, intersection crash analyses, and strip analyses. This position requires good written and oral communication skills in order to handle the task of report writing, correspondence, personnel and public contact. This position is responsible for leading road safety assessment teams across the state, which requires appropriately selecting sites and recognizing correctable patterns, conducting crash analysis, collecting field data, leading a team of peers, and developing and communicating recommendations based on sound traffic engineering principles.

The applicant must be passionate about the field of traffic safety and this position’s role in reducing the number of North Carolina traffic-related fatalities and injuries. The variety of projects and vast amount of research in highway safety require professionals to stay abreast of the advancements in both methodologies and technologies used in analyzing safety projects. This requires the development of information technology and computer applications, use of advanced data collection equipment, use of complex computer software applications and hardware.

The applicant will be required to maintain a high level of…