Traffic Services Program Engineer

Traffic Services Program Engineer -

Join FDOT and be part of the team that works as one to improve safety, enhance mobility and inspire innovation in the Florida transportation system. To ensure honesty and transparency, all applicants must provide their own work. Unless explicitly requested, the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools to assist with qualifying questions, work samples, or interviews is strictly prohibited, and any breach of this requirement will lead to the applicant being removed from consideration.

Candidates must be United States (U.S.) citizens, or lawfully authorized alien workers. Visa sponsorship is not available.

The mission of the Florida Department of Transportation is to provide a safe statewide transportation system that promotes the efficient movement of people and goods, supports the state's economic competitiveness, prioritizes Florida's environment and natural resources, and preserves the quality of life and connectedness of the state's communities. The vision of the OneFDOT team is to serve the people of Florida by providing a transportation network that is well planned, supports economic growth, and has the goal of being congestion and fatality free.

The work you will do:

• Traffic Services Program Engineer / Traffic Operations

The difference you will make:

• Through cooperation, coordination and collaboration among the OneFDOT team, you will be contributing to a strong and empowering culture of TRREC:
  Trust, Relationships, Respect, Empowerment, and Communication.

How you will grow:

• FDOT encourages our team members to grow through engagement, empowerment, training, and professional development. Through our agency's learning management system, you have access to hundreds of computer-based training and instructor-led courses.

Where you will work:

• Florida Department of Transportation D7 – Headquarters 11201 McKinley Dr Tampa, FL 33612

Your specific responsibilities:

• Directs and supervises staff and provides advanced engineering and technical guidance for the District Traffic Operations Office Traffic Services Section.
• Meets regularly with employees to assign work, establish work objectives and timelines to ensure working objectives are met.
• Evaluates employee's performance, during established time frames, throughout the year and at formal review periods.
• Motivates and trains and/or ensures required training is available for staff.
• Communicates regularly with direct reports, both individually and in staff meetings.
• Ensures that all the paperwork required for processing pay documents and personnel matters, including performance appraisals, disciplinary actions, filing vacant positions and separations, are completed accurately and processed in a timely manner.
• Develop and implement Traffic Services business and related plans to guide resource allocation and achieve unit performance targets. Includes collaborating with others in plan development, reporting plan results, linking performance targets to SMART (Specific, Measureable, Achievable, Realistic and Time/cost/quality-based) objectives in staff expectations, identifying and making resource recommendations.
• Participate in meetings, on committees, task teams and other groups with internal and external customers to represent Traffic Services interests. Includes providing useful commentary and review of work products. Includes correspondence and follow-up contact as needed.
• Develop and manage consultant contracts and other types of agreements that support Traffic Services functions and/or relate to performance targets. Includes developing documentation for contract funding, request for proposal (RFP) and related documents, participation on technical review committees (TRC), evaluation of contract work products, consultant evaluation and invoice processing approval.
• Perform engineering review and analysis of data and/or work products. Including documentation of findings and conclusions, participation in meetings and presentation of reviewed data and analysis. Signs and seals engineering documents as required.

The successful candidate will have the following required knowledge, skills, and abilities:

• Knowledge of traffic engineering principles and practices.
• Knowledge of management principles and practices.
• Knowledge of traffic operations analysis and study techniques.
• Knowledge of Florida Department of Transportation design standards.
• Knowledge of traffic signal timing and phasing.
• Skills in effective oral communication.
• Skills in effective written communications.
• Skills in interpreting and disseminating traffic engineering related data.
• Ability to collect, analyze, and interpret engineering data.
• Ability to manage workload to produce on time resolutions to problems.
• Ability to counsel and plan employee career development.
• Ability to supervise people.
• Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships.
• Ability to lead, manage, and work with diverse groups of people.

Licensure/Registration/Certification Requirements:

• Registration as a Professional…