Senior Traffic Engineer

Job Description

Step Into Your New Role  

As a Senior Traffic Engineer, you will lead, manage, and oversee traffic engineering design projects from initial studies through to final construction plans. This role involves managing a team, solving engineering problems, and providing project management for medium to large-scale projects. You will collaborate with a skilled team of engineers, scientists, and planners to provide innovative solutions while fostering long-term client relationships and driving operational excellence. Our teams enjoy a hybrid schedule, which allows us to offer this role in Portland, ME or Manchester, NH.

 

Responsibilities:

 

• Project Management: Lead and manage traffic engineering design projects from initial studies through final construction plans, ensuring timely delivery, budget compliance, and client satisfaction.
• Team Leadership: Provide technical direction to the traffic engineering team, ensuring high standards of design, analysis, and project quality.
• Technical Leadership: Provide technical direction to project teams, ensuring high standards of design, process engineering, and quality.
• Traffic Analysis: Oversee traffic analysis, design, and safety studies, including traffic impact studies and operational analyses.
• Client Management: Build and maintain relationships with municipal and private clients, ensuring long-term contracts and ongoing project success.
• Business Development: Contribute to business development efforts by participating in proposal presentations and marketing activities.
• Project Delivery: Manage scheduling, cost control, and resource allocation for traffic engineering projects.
• Quality Assurance: Review and ensure designs meet Quality Assurance and Quality Control (QAQC) standards.
• Collaboration: Work closely with cross-functional teams, including engineers and planners, to deliver integrated traffic solutions.
• Mentoring & Thought Leadership: Contribute to technical conferences, committees, and internal development programs.

 

Qualifications:

• BS in civil engineering or a related field from an ABET-accredited program.
• 12+ years of hands-on experience in traffic engineering, including design and analysis.
• Professional Engineer (PE) license required.
• 3+ years of project management experience, particularly in traffic design and analysis projects.
• Strong understanding of traffic engineering principles, including the use of traffic data collection, analysis techniques, and design criteria.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office and traffic engineering software. Strong communication, organizational, and technical writing skills.
• Professional Traffic Operations Engineer (PTOE) certification is a plus. Experience with DOT and private sector projects is preferred.

 

Move Forward with Kleinfelder 

Kleinfelder has been connecting great people to the best work since 1961. We are engineers, scientists, and construction professionals providing solutions that improve our clients' transportation, water, energy, and other private infrastructure. As a responsive, cross-disciplinary team of bright, curious, and innovative problem-solvers, we are dedicated to doing the right thing, every day, on every project from over 85 offices in the US, Canada, and Australia. Connecting great people to the best work is our purpose - together, we deliver. 

   

Progress with an Employer that Values You 

Kleinfelder is an inclusive organization free from discrimination. We are a stronger organization when we are a diverse workforce and believe that through diversity, equity, and inclusion comes creativity, innovation, and unity. We are proud to offer the following: 

 

Benefits: Kleinfelder offers an excellent compensation and benefits package, including medical, dental, vision, life insurance, 401(k) plan, and paid holidays. 

Career Development: We are committed to investing in the professional development of our staff, offering each employee every opportunity to grow, develop, and take control of their career paths. We support these efforts through reimbursements for continuing education as well as many of the expenses associated