Senior Engineer, Traffic

Senior Traffic Engineer

Are you passionate about improving traffic safety and developing innovative transportation solutions? Join the City of Sammamish as our Senior Traffic Engineer and play a vital role in advancing a safe, efficient, accessible, and multimodal transportation network for our growing community.

Why join us?

• Impactful Work: Make a visible impact on your community through meaningful public infrastructure projects.
• Professional Growth: Access to continuous learning opportunities and career advancement.
• Comprehensive Benefits: Health, dental, and vision insurance, FSA, retirement plans, and generous paid time off (vacation and sick).
• Collaborative Environment: Work with a dedicated and supportive team passionate about public service.
• Work-Life Balance: Hybrid work schedules and a commitment to your well-being; 14 paid holidays plus a floating holiday.

The Senior Traffic Engineer plays a key role in advancing traffic safety and shaping an efficient, accessible, and multimodal transportation network for the Sammamish community. Serving as the City's in-house traffic engineering and safety subject matter expert, this role leads the full lifecycle of traffic safety initiatives and transportation projects—from strategy development and technical studies to data analysis, design, construction oversight, implementation, and performance monitoring.

This position provides technical leadership and expertise across a broad range of traffic engineering disciplines, including multimodal transportation planning, traffic operations analysis and modeling, traffic control and management, intelligent transportation systems (ITS), and traffic design. The Senior Traffic Engineer communicates complex technical information to community members, decision-makers, and stakeholders to support engagement, transparency, and informed decision-making. The Senior Traffic Engineer manages complex traffic engineering projects, oversees traffic operations and modeling efforts, supports the City's Traffic Management Center, reviews development permit submittals and capital project deliverables, and pursues and administers grant funding that advances the City's multimodal transportation, mobility, and safety goals.

The essential functions listed are typical examples of work performed by positions in this job classification and are not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, tasks, and responsibilities. Specific duties and responsibilities may vary depending on department or program needs without changing the general nature and scope of the job or level of responsibility.

Employees may also perform other duties as assigned.

• Lead the department's efforts related to systemic traffic safety, focusing on proactively identifying risks, protecting vulnerable road users, and managing speed.
• Collaborate with the community and other stakeholders to identify safety concerns, conduct analyses, develop designs and recommendations, and implement proven safety countermeasures.
• Monitor transportation system performance, identify infrastructure deficiencies, investigate safety and operational concerns, and develop and implement solutions.
• Provide road design and traffic engineering expertise to support City initiatives and projects, including by reviewing and contributing to interdepartmental planning studies, private development permit applications, capital projects, and construction projects.
• Lead and oversee the planning, design, and construction of complex traffic engineering and transportation projects, ensuring projects are delivered within approved scope, schedule, and budget.
• Support the oversight and management of the City's traffic signal operations and control system, including operational performance, signal timing, maintenance needs, and system improvements.
• Manage consultants and contracts for transportation and traffic engineering projects throughout the project delivery cycle.
• Coordinate with and represent the City before residents, developers, contractors, consultants, regional agencies, City departments, committees, and other public forums to advance project and program objectives.
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