Senior Traffic Safety Engineer

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Job Description

AECOM is looking for an experienced Sr. Traffic Safety Engineer to be based in Grand Rapids or Reno office or remotely in support of the Midwest team, with an emphasis in traffic safety and crash analysis and traffic engineering.  This position also allows remote working flexibility to work in the office and at home and work with a multidisciplinary statewide traffic team. 

Our team works with local and national clients to provide solutions to their transportation needs across all modes of travel. Typical projects and daily tasks are focused on safety related services such as compilation of existing crash data, performing multidisciplinary field reviews, review of crash data to determine potential causes, development of mitigation strategies, and economic benefit cost analyses.  The team member should be able to think independently and creatively to review and develop mitigation measures and present those in presentations and/or reports. 

Team member may also be asked to work on other traffic engineering tasks should there be any downtime in safety analysis, such as operational analysis and/or design. 

Job Responsibilities:

• Performs or oversees—with little supervision—all aspects of safety analysis studies including collection of crash data and analysis of data either in GIS or Excel or other type of software.
• Helps to grow a team of junior engineers in the execution of smaller standalone traffic engineering projects, or traffic entering tasks as part of larger projects.
• Provides day-to-day direct mentoring and guidance to entry level engineers in the execution of their tasks.
• Presents technical findings to internal project teams, clients, and the public.
• Documentation in technical memoranda and reports.
• Follows AECOM and client process in performing quality control tasks of other engineers’ work.
• Assists in workload projections for any direct reports and coordinates with other discipline leads in Michigan.
• Works collaboratively with other discipline leads in Michigan to perform business development activities such as identification of project opportunities, marketing clients, making technical presentations at conferences, assisting with proposal preparation, and assisting with recruiting efforts.
• Assists direct reports in setting and accomplishing goals that advance their professional development.
• Assists project managers in the development of scopes of work, cost estimates, and schedules.
• Proposes approaches to solve new problems encountered using modifications of standard procedures or methods developed in previous assignments.
• Performs work in accordance with agreed upon budget and schedule.

Qualifications

Minimum Requirements

• Bachelor Degree in Civil Engineering or related field and minimum of 8 years of related experience, or demonstrated equivalency of education and experience

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's degree in Civil Engineering or equivalent
• (12) + years of relevant experience.
• Experience with Traffic Engineering projects and various governmental agencies.
• Experience with ITS or Emerging Technology projects and clients.
• Professional Engineer license in Michigan, or the ability to obtain license within 6 months
• Experience and familiarity with traffic operational analysis including traffic projections, analysis, and simulation; traffic safety analysis, traffic signal warrants, traffic signal and pedestrian crossing control system analysis, and design; and traffic signing and pavement marking analysis and design, MOT analysis and design
• Experience and familiarity with ITS and technology projects following the systems engineering process and local client requirements
• The right balance of man