ITS & Traffic Design Discipline Leader - RS&H

The Opportunity

We are currently seeking an ITS and Traffic Design Discipline Leader in our Raleigh or Charlotte, North Carolina offices. The Engineer will primarily work within North Carolina. However, as part of a national practice will work with associates based in other states including Virginia, Florida, Colorado, and Texas. 

The successful candidate will have a proven track record leading and performing diverse and complex work in the areas of ITS & traffic engineering, mentoring, and management. As a technical expert you will have a key role in project work, while also cultivating relationships with existing and new clients. You will work to achieve our goals of a profitable operation and a supportive and inclusive work environment. You will be a key member in our national ITS & traffic engineering practice and work with our North Carolina transportation leadership to grow ITS & traffic engineering in these states.

The ideal candidate should have previous leadership responsibilities and traffic engineering expertise including:

• ITS Planning and Design
• Coordinated Traffic Signal Timing Development and Implementation
• Traffic Signal Design
• Traffic Signal Electrical Details
• Traffic Signal Communication plans
• Signing and Pavement Markings

Responsibilities

Project Delivery & Technical Excellence:

• Serve as a leader delivering ITS and traffic engineering services for NCDOT and local clients.
• Actively manage projects and discipline specific tasks including performing project management activities (project scope, schedule, budget, and quality management).
• Administer quality management plans and perform thorough, detailed reviews of project deliverables.
• Work with leaders across the firm’s national ITS & traffic engineering practice to develop industry-best technical strategies and procedures.

People Development:

• Supervising, coaching, and mentoring junior engineering staff.
• Recruit qualified staff at the skill and experience levels needed to promote team growth.
• Establish and/or review priorities and work schedules and coordinates resource needs/assignments.

Client Relationships, Marketing, and Pursuit Development:

• Engage in marketing activities to grow our client network and to bring in new work in coordination with our firm’s strategic plan for North Carolina.
• Foster partnerships and relationships with other consulting firms to assist with business development, building client relationships, and pursuit efforts for projects.
• Assist in marketing responsibilities, including client discovery, proposal generation, interviews, and win-to-work activities.

Minimum Qualifications:

• ABET accredited bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering, Transportation Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Systems Engineering, or related field.
• PE License
• Minimum 10 years of traffic engineering and ITS experience including proven technical leadership (decision-making on technical matters).
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office software
• Proficiency with MicroStation platform SS10 with PowerGeoPak and/or OpenRoads
• Proficiency with traffic analysis tools (Synchro and/or TruTraffic)
• Excellent oral and written communications skills, including the ability to communicate with leadership on matters of strategic importance, and can effectively interact and build strong relationships with clients and other key stakeholders.

Preferred Qualifications:   

• Experience with NCDOT and SCDOT specifications and procedures.
• Experience leading and supervising a team of traffic and ITS engineers.

If this sounds like the role for you and you're ready to join an amazing team, please apply.

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The Team

RS&H provides fully integrated architecture, engineering, and consulting services to help clients realize their most complex facility and infrastructure projects for land, air, and space.  We are committed to bringing extraordinary solutions to our clients through the promise of imagination, ingenuity, and innovation.  With a tradition of excellence that began in 1941, we are consistently ranked among the nation’s top 100 design firms.  We attribute our success to an unwavering commitment to our core values of: integrity, quality service, business success and valuing associates.

The Company

Employee-owned, RS&H is one of the nation’s leading architecture, engineering, and consulting firms whose associates work hard every day to create a more connected future where everyone can thrive. We offer an exceptional journey from start to future. Our integrated teams translate experience into insight, turn challenges into opportunities, and build relationships that are as strong as the buildings and infrastructure we deliver together. We attribute our success to an unwavering commitment to our core values of: integrity, caring, forward-thinking, creativity, inclusivity, and ownership.