Senior Transporation Engineer

Senior Transportation Engineer – City of Redmond

Are you a transportation or traffic design engineer who enjoys working on development projects?
If you’re in the mid stage of your career and looking to gain valuable experience as a reviewer and project manager in the public sector—experience that will accelerate your path toward senior engineering roles—this opportunity is for you!

The Development Engineering Division of the City of Redmond’s Planning Department is recruiting for a Senior Transportation Engineer with a focus on transportation and traffic engineering review and project management. In this role, you’ll serve as the subject matter expert for transportation-related reviews, evaluate transportation and traffic design elements, and collaborate closely with internal reviewers and external applicants to guide private development projects through the City's permitting process.

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• Prepare or review project plans and specifications, including drafting as needed. Analyze project requirements, physical location, and other pertinent data; prepare engineer's estimate of cost; ensure designs comply with state, federal, and city laws, codes, ordinances, and regulations governing public works projects and private project development.
• Develop scope of work and requests for proposals (RFPs); select consultants; finalize contracts; review work product; monitor budget and schedules; provide technical assistance to contractors; manage project resources and approve final work product for a wide range of public works projects, including capital improvement projects.
• Perform detailed and complex engineering studies, designs, and field inspections; develop conclusions and recommendations.
• Oversee projects to develop regulations from inception through internal review and council adoption.
• Participate in regional management groups to remain current on relevant issues and provide technical input to groups that may influence City decisions.
• Represent the City in communications with public agencies, private utility companies, contractors, developers, business owners, and the general public.
• Write correspondence related to project administration, including inspection, testing reports, change order preparations, and dispute resolution.
• Coordinate project activities with city employees, contractors, other cities, and districts.
• Plan, direct, and manage multiple diverse and complex engineering projects, programs, or systems.
• Recommend or influence changes to policies and procedures to accomplish general goals.
• Represent the City in negotiations with businesses, contractors, other local jurisdictions, and property owners and have the authority to commit City resources to achieve work objectives.
• Ensure conformity and quality assurance of complete project documents, engineering projects, programs, or systems.
• Participate as a professional expert in legal matters related to engineering projects.
• Recognize project issues that could generate potential contractor claim disputes.
• Coordinate, supervise, and provide fiscal tracking, quality control, and safety oversight from bid award through project final acceptance.
• Develop alternative methods of detailed analysis based on sound professional judgment to address complex problems and judge the applicability and adequacy of methods.
• Identify and evaluate impacts from proposed private and public development and negotiate with developers on improvements and/or fees necessary to mitigate these impacts, taking into account city codes and case law.
• Conduct peer review of technical reports and designs of complex private development projects prepared by consultants to ensure compliance with city codes and engineering standards.
• Prepare interpretations of complex issues related to both public and private development projects.

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