Associate Transportation Engineer

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Berkeley, California is a small city with a big reputation. At just ten square miles of land and seven square miles of water, Berkeley is famous around the globe as a center for academic achievement, scientific exploration, free speech, and the arts, and home to over 50 parks, a top‑ranked university, and the largest public marina in the San Francisco Bay.

As an employer, the City of Berkeley offers all the benefits of a career in the public sector while fostering diversity, creativity, and innovation. Join a team of high‑caliber, experienced staff with a shared mission of serving the Berkeley community and promoting an accessible, safe, healthy, environmentally‑sound and culturally‑rich city.

The City of Berkeley invites you to apply for the position of Associate Transportation Engineer in the Transportation Division of the Public Works Department.

• Lead planning, design review, and technical analysis for Measure FF safety, multimodal, and corridor improvement projects, ensuring compliance with engineering standards, MUTCD, Caltrans guidance, ADA/PROWAG, NACTO, and Vision Zero principles.
• Manage consultant teams, including scope development, task coordination, technical review of deliverables, schedule oversight, and ensuring projects meet Measure FF budget and performance expectations.
• Oversee project implementation and field coordination, working closely with Public Works Engineering, Traffic Maintenance, external contractors, and utility partners to ensure successful construction, installation, and close‑out of Measure FF improvement projects.
• Support Measure FF financial and program management, including cost estimating, budgeting, resource planning, and contributing to capital planning, reporting, and accountability requirements tied to the ballot measure.
• Perform additional traffic engineering assignments as needed to support the Transportation Division, including traffic operations analysis, safety reviews, engineering support for council requests, and coordination on citywide multimodal initiatives.

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A typical way of gaining the knowledge, skills, and abilities for this position is equivalent to graduation from a four‑year college or university with major course work in civil or traffic engineering and three years of increasingly responsible traffic engineering experience, one year of which was at a level equivalent to the Assistant Transportation Engineer class.

Other requirements include possession of a valid California Registration as a professional Traffic Engineer or a professional Civil Engineer as well as a valid California driver's license and a satisfactory driving record.

Progressively responsible related experience may be substituted for the college course work on a year for year basis. A master's degree in Transportation Engineering/Planning or a related field is desirable.

• Applications must be received by Monday, January 5, 2026 at 5:00 PM PST and must include a completed application and responses to any supplemental questions. Resumes are not a substitute for a completed application.
• Applications are available in alternative formats (audio‑format, braille, large print, electronic text, etc.) upon request ase allow 10 days for production of the material in an alternative format.

• Application review for minimum qualifications and required documents (qualifying experience will be calculated based on the administrative review date).
• Competitive review and assessment of applicants' education, training, and experience (Training & Experience).
• Tests may consist of any combination of written, oral or other exercises or assessment procedures that test content and may include, but are not necessarily limited to, typing, math, reading, writing and analytical skills; problem solving ability; computer and software proficiency, or any…