What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Traffic Modeler / Senior Traffic Engineer position at Dewberry?
Job Description
Dewberry is currently seeking a motivated Senior Traffic Modeler/Senior Traffic Engineer to be located in either our Fairfax, VA, Richmond, VA, Virginia Beach, VA or Owings Mills, MD office. This position offers an excellent opportunity for an enthusiastic and talented individual to join a large team of traffic engineers. Projects will range from local community-focused safety and multimodal projects to large freeway improvement projects. This position offers tremendous career growth potential in a highly collaborative environment while working on broad range of project types for local and national transportation clients. Primary responsibilities include performing traffic operational analysis, traffic modeling and simulation (VISSIM and Synchro/SimTraffic) and safety analysis. The position also allows for a wide range of opportunities including traffic control device design. The ideal candidate will have a minimum of 5-10 years of traffic modeling and traffic engineering experience including experience on VDOT and/or MDOT projects. Applicants must have strong communication and interpersonal skills and the ability to monitor schedule and budgets, work in groups, and lead and mentor a group of traffic engineers. This position offers flexible work hours and the ability for part-time telework.
Dewberry is a leading, market-facing professional services firm with more than 60 locations and 2,500 professionals nationwide. What sets us apart from our competitors are our people. At Dewberry, we seek out exceptional talent and strive to deliver the highest quality of services to our clients. Whether you’re an experienced professional or a recent graduate, you’ll have the chance to collaborate with the best and brightest and work on innovative and complex projects at the forefront of the industry. Our commitment to excellence stems from our personal integrity and from other defining attributes, which we call “Dewberry at Work,” that have inspired our employees to be successful for more than a half-century.
Responsibilities
- Perform and manage traffic operational analysis and traffic engineering studies
- Perform safety analysis
- Perform transportation master plan studies
- Meet with clients
- Communicate effectively with internal team members, subconsultant partners, and clients
- Collaborate with roadway, structures, hydraulics, and environmental groups within our Transportation business unit.
- Lead and/or mentor a group of staff traffic engineer
- Assist in proposal development
Required Skills & Required Experience
- BS in Civil Engineering
- PE license preferred, PTOE preferred
- Minimum 5 years of experience in traffic modeling / engineering
- Proficiency with analysis software (VISSIM, Synchro, SimTraffic, HCS) required
- Experience in VISUM, SIDRA preferred
- VDOT, MDOT and/or design-build experience preferred
- MicroStation experience preferred
- Project Management and leadership skills preferred
- Excellent communication and organizational skills
Don’t meet every single requirement? At Dewberry we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace for our employees'. So if you’re excited about this role, but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the position description, we encourage you to apply anyways. You may just be the right candidate for this or other opportunities.
*At this time, Dewberry will not sponsor a new applicant for work authorization.
*Dewberry is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, gender identity or sexual orientation.
*Only recipients of an offer of employment from Dewberry, will be required to submit to a background screening which may include, but is not limited to, employment verification, educational and other credential verification, driving record check, criminal background check, and an investigative consumer report. These screenings will be conducted by Dewberry’s background vendor of choice and will be conducted in compliance with all applicable federal, state, and local law.
Notice to Third Party Recruiters: Dewberry only compensates job placement recruiters that have a valid Dewberry-approved written agreement in place for recruiting services. Dewberry does not compensate third party recruiters for unsolicited job placement candidate information.
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