Senior Traffic Engineer

Job Description

This Opportunity

WSP is currently initiating a search for a Senior Traffic Engineer for our Pacific Mountain West Team. This position can be based out of our Portland-OR , or Honolulu-HI offices.

Be involved in projects with our Pacific Mountain West Traffic & Transportation Team and be a part of a growing organization that meets our client's objectives and solves their challenges.

WSP is seeking a Senior Traffic Engineer that is innovative, results-oriented, and team focused. The Senior Traffic Engineer will bring leadership and skills to support project delivery with emphasis on operational analysis for our local, state and regional clients.

While the focus of this position is operational analysis, candidates will also have opportunities to support traffic design tasks if desired in our blended traffic operations and design team.

Tasks may include but are not limited to performing capacity analyses, safety analysis, multi-resolution modeling, traffic impact analysis, data analysis, and task and project management.

Ensures that responsibilities are delivered and adhered to with a level of quality that meets or exceeds industry standards for design, safety, and functionality.

Take advantage of the wide-ranging career development opportunities, international professional networks, and cutting-edge project experiences to advance your technical and management skills and see your passions realized with WSP.

Your Impact

• Develop transportation solutions together with our traffic, transit, and planning teams.
• Use cutting-edge analysis, modeling, and simulation techniques to evaluate traffic operations alternatives to best improve safety, access, and mobility.
• Perform traffic operation analyses and travel demand forecasting for a variety of transportation engineering and planning projects.
• Support development of regional and project-level traffic forecasts.
• Perform traffic operations analysis using Vissim, Synchro / SimTraffic, HCS and other software.
• Prepare tables, figures, and technical reports / presentations to summarize impacts for communities, public agencies and decision-makers.
• Manage tasks and monitor scope, schedule, and budget.
• Ensure excellence in overall project delivery.

Who You Are

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, or closely related discipline.
• 5 to 7 years of relevant post education experience in engineering and prior traffic design experience.
• Engineer in Training (EIT) Certification.
• Prior demonstrated knowledge and experience with local client protocols and procedures.
• Proficient knowledge of traffic engineering principles, practices, capacity and operational analysis, and project management.
• Experience working on multi-disciplinary projects involving roadway planning, design, and construction management; including project involvement in a variety of larger infrastructure projects, rehabilitation and construction of pavement, and safety management.
• Ability to work independently and provide guidance and leadership to junior team or project members, with strict adherence to QA / QC.
• Proficiency with technical writing, technology, math principles, spreadsheets, and tools.
• Proven track record of upholding workplace safety and ability to abide by WSP's health, safety and drug / alcohol and harassment policies.
• Flexible to occasional schedule variation to meet business needs and able to prioritize responsibilities and quickly adapt to change.
• Occasional travel may be required depending on project-specific requirements.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's Degree in Engineering.
• Local Professional Engineer (PE) certification or ability to obtain within 1 year of employment.
• Experience managing small to mid-size projects.
• Dynameq / DTA Experience

WSP Benefits :

WSP provides a comprehensive suite of benefits focused on a providing health and financial stability throughout the employee's career.

These benefits include coverage related to medical, dental, vision, disability, and life; retirement savings; paid sick leave;

paid vacation (or other personal time); paid parental leave; and paid time off for purposes of bereavement, voting, and / or attendance at naturalization proceedings.

Compensation :

Expected Salary (all locations) : $69,600 - $157,000

WSP USA is providing the compensation range that the company in good faith believes it might pay and offer for this position, based on the successful applicant's education, experience, knowledge, skills, abilities in addition to internal equity and specific geographic location.

WSP USA reserves the right to ultimately pay more or less than the posted range and offer additional benefits and other compensation, depending on circumstances not related to an applicant's sex or other status protected by local, state, and / or federal law.

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About Us

About WSP

WSP USA is the U.S. operating company of WSP, one of the world's leading engineering and professional services firms. Dedicated to serving local communities, we are engineers, planners, technical experts, strategic advisors and construction management professionals.

WSP USA designs lasting solutions in the buildings, transportation, energy, water and environment markets. With more than 15,000 employees in over 300 offices across the U.

S., we partner with our clients to help communities prosper.

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WSP provides a flexible and agile workplace model while meeting client needs. Employees are also afforded a comprehensive suite of benefits including medical, dental, vision, disability, life, and retirement savings focused on providing health and financial stability throughout the employee's career.

At WSP, we want to give our employees the challenges they seek to grow their careers and knowledge base. Your daily contributions to your team will be essential in meeting client objectives, goals and challenges.

Are you ready to get started?

WSP USA (and all of its U.S. companies) is an Equal Opportunity Employer Race / Age / Color / Religion / Sex / Sexual Orientation / Gender Identity / National Origin / Disability or Protected Veteran Status.

The selected candidate must be authorized to work in the United States.

NOTICE TO THIRD PARTY AGENCIES :

WSP does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruiters, employment agencies, or other staffing services. Unsolicited resumes include any resume or hiring document sent to WSP in the absence of a signed Service Agreement where WSP has expressly requested recruitment / staffing services specific to the position at hand.

Any unsolicited resumes, including those submitted to hiring managers or other business leaders, will become the property of WSP and WSP will have the right to hire that candidate without reservation - no fee or other compensation will be owed or paid to the recruiter, employment agency, or other staffing service.