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Senior Traffic Signal Engineer

Yunex Traffic
United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 14 Jan 2026

About the role

Senior Traffic Signal Engineer

 

Open to application from Assistant and Traffic Signal Engineers

 

This role will require close working with other parts of the Consultancy Services team and the wider business, proving detailed technical traffic engineering experience across a range of disciplines. This is a technical role but also requires liaison one to one with our customer base on a daily basis. This senior role involves working on complex traffic engineering projects without supervision and managing projects through to customer approval.

 

Areas of responsibility and tasks

  • Be responsible for the Health & Safety and professional development of your direct reports (where applicable)
  • Deliver to a high standard a wide range of traffic engineering projects across the UK in accordance with current national/local standards, guidance and best practice
  • Deliver traffic engineering projects in accordance with ergonomic, economic and sustainable principles
  • Assessment and mitigation of risks associated with traffic engineering projects
  • Travel to site visits, validations, and customer meetings with overnight stays where appropriate
  • Preparation of technical reports and specifications
  • Technical checking/approval of traffic engineering schemes before delivery to customers
  • Preparation of consultancy/design quotations
  • Project management and financial tracking

 

Knowledge & Skills

The key competencies and capabilities for this role are:

 

  • High level of communication skills, both verbal and written and working collaboratively
  • Ability to solve complex traffic engineering problems and managing customer’s expectations
  • Ability to achieve objectives with strict deadlines and manage your own and others workload

 

Required experience

To have a technical, in-depth understanding and proven track record of the following traffic engineering competencies:

 

  • Traffic signal design fundamentals and UK standards/specifications
  • Traffic engineering software including AutoCAD, with KeySignals, and modelling software such as LinSig or Transyt
  • In-depth knowledge of traffic signal products from across the industry
  • In-depth knowledge and proven track record using systems such as UTC or UTMC
  • In-depth knowledge and proven track record of adaptive control strategies such as SCOOT or MOVA, including experience with setup and on-site validation
  • Experience undertaking Factory and Site Acceptance Testing

 

Educational Requirements

  • HNC/HND/Degree level in engineering in a related subject is preferred or have relevant experience

 

What do we offer?

  • Base salary and annual bonus
  • 26 days holiday, increasing up to 29 days with length of service.
  • Company Car
  • 37.5 hour working week.
  • Excellent pension, matching contributions up to 10% of pensionable salary
  • Flexible benefits to suit your personal needs (plenty of choice)
  • Investment in personal development and support to membership of professional institutions. 

 

About us

We’re Yunex Traffic. We have offices across the UK and worldwide, full of hardworking individual’s helping us to challenge the today and work towards a brighter tomorrow. We’re excited to hear that you would like to join us here at Yunex Traffic. Our people love it here and we want you to be a part of helping us make real, what matters.

 

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