Senior Traffic Engineering Project Manager - Texas - Ardurra Group, Inc.

Ardurra is seeking a Senior Traffic Engineering Project Manager to join our Central Region team.
Primary Duties: 

Provides subject matter technical support and leadership for multi-site/phase planning, engineering, design, and operation of streets and highways, their networks, adjacent land uses, and interaction with other modes of transportation. Responsibilities include capacity analyses, and engaging in the design, concept development, and construction of roadways, traffic patterns, traffic modeling, traffic impact analyses and traffic signal design and timing studies. Provides situational guidance to PMs and managers that address current and future challenges, and that documentation and recommendations accurately account for and address risk, innovation, and future-ready opportunities. Provides leadership with ensuring that responsibilities are delivered and adhered to with a level of quality that meets or exceeds acceptable industry standards for design, safety, and functionality.

Essential Skills and Abilities

• Serve as Project Manager and/or Traffic Engineering Task Lead on transportation planning, concept plan development, and feasibility studies of highway, bridge and other transportation facilities projects.
• Provide guidance and training to entry and mid-level engineers or project members.
• Manage projects or lead/support traffic engineering tasks and monitor scope, schedule, and budget.
• Oversee and monitor cross-functional teams of engineers, planners, and scientific professionals to execute project work on mid-level and/or multiple concurrent projects, including budgets, tracking hours and expenses, task completion, cost and quantities of materials/equipment/labor, technical calculations, permit applications, construction, compliance documentation, and regulatory and technical analysis memos.
• Support related TSMO and ITS projects and implementation efforts.
• Prepare Signing and Pavement Marking design plans and Traffic Signal and Electrical design plans.
• Prepare Traffic Control/Staging (i.e., Maintenance and Protection of Traffic) design plans.
• Perform Crash Analysis, signal timing analysis and Safety Studies.
• Oversee traffic data collection, trip generation, and traffic analysis activities on various projects.
• Prepare engineering design plans, specifications, quantity calculations and cost estimates.
• Support preparation of statements of qualifications and proposals.
• Perform professional traffic engineering work and conduct more complex/comprehensive investigations and inspections of proposed and existing site conditions, roadways, intersections, signage, signals, pavement markings, and transportation corridors to determine conformance with applicable rules, standards, and construction or operating permits.
• Oversees the development and implementation of advanced technologies, monitoring devices, modeling techniques, design requirements, and operating strategies to account for the safety and functionality or end-users, transportation vehicles/systems, and implementing future-ready solutions with traffic engineering design standards.
• Lead larger-scale engineering projects ensuring contributors know what they are required to do and by when, preparing and overseeing relevant project budgets, monitoring external events, tracking hours and expenses, ensuring satisfactory performance, and supervising subcontractors, contract work, and employees.
• Oversee the results of studies and program reviews in order to validate existing and projected roadway and transportation layouts, traffic impacts of proposed developments, and recommended traffic safety enhancement projects on the basis of respective studies.
• Ensure technical reports and presentations explain research, findings, and recommendations to prevent, control, restore, or address engineering, design, and/or construction issues or opportunities.
• Develop a client base for providing high level traffic engineering services including identifying additional business development opportunities.
• Collaborates with professionals from a variety of disciplines, other engineers, planners, and DOT authorities on Federal, State, regional, and locally funded road and transportation improvement and development projects, as well as proposal and business development opportunities.
• Exercise responsible and ethical decision-making regarding company funds, resources and conduct.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering, or closely related discipline.
• 10+ years of relevant post education experience in engineering and traffic design.
• Engineer license required (multi-state preferred).
• Highly proficient with traffic engineering principles, practices, process, and design/build related to traffic control equipment, capacity and operational analysis, project management, and related communications systems. ITS Design experience is a plus.
• Experience with roadway planning, design, and program/construction management; including project involvement in a variety of larger and more complex infrastructure projects, rehabilitation and construction/reconstruction of pavements, routes, navigational aids, grading design, and safety management.
• Strong knowledge of relevant roadway transportation construction laws, codes, regulations, compliance practices, and record-keeping requirements.
• Highly proficient with making technical computations and calculations involving the application of engineering principles, understanding plans and specifications, and making factual comparisons to the appropriate regulations.
• Highly effective interpersonal and communication skills when interacting with others, expressing intricate ideas effectively and professionally to an engineering and non-engineering audience.
• Proficiency with technical writing, office automation, AutoCAD, MicroStation, or similar software, traffic simulation and modeling platforms including Synchro, HCS, Aimsun, Vissim, Visum.
• Well-developed critical thinking and problem-solving skills required to apply technical knowledge to reach conclusions from testing results, data collation, statistical analysis and arriving at the most effective, economical, and logical solution.
• Must be flexible to a variety of schedules to meet business needs and able to prioritize responsibilities and quickly adapt to change in a pressure work environment.

Occasional travel may be required depending on project-specific requirements. 

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Why Ardurra?
While Ardurra offers competitive compensation and rich benefits programs, it is our culture that truly sets us apart from our peers. We nurture a family-like culture, striving to create a work environment that is enjoyable, challenging and rewarding but also fun. We are acutely focused on developing our staff, whether through our internal Ardurra Academy or through our industry-leading Leadership program. We have made a deliberate and focused commitment to nurture a people-centric culture where people are: valued as individuals; supported in their professional and career development with multiple, varied career paths; provided the tools and resources to be successful, engaged, and satisfied in their work; and positive benefits, time-off programs, and flexibility to help maintain a healthy balance between work and home.
Ardurra is an Equal Opportunity/ Affirmative Action 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.

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