# Lead Professional, Traffic Engineer

**Company**: WSP
**Location**: Las Vegas, NV
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Consulting

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## Description

WSP is seeking a Lead Professional, Traffic Engineer to join their Pacific Mountain West Traffic & Transportation Team in Las Vegas, Nevada.

The successful candidate will be involved in projects and contribute to the team's efforts in delivering high-quality solutions for clients.

Key Responsibilities:

- Develop transportation solutions with district traffic, transit, and planning teams

- Evaluate traffic operations alternatives using cutting-edge analysis, modeling, and simulation techniques

- Perform traffic operation analyses and travel demand forecasting for various transportation projects

- Support development of regional and project-level traffic forecasts

- Conduct traffic operations analysis using Vissim, Synchro/SimTraffic, HCS, and other software

- Prepare technical reports and presentations summarizing impacts for communities and decision-makers

- Manage tasks, monitor scope, schedule, and budget, ensuring excellent project delivery

- Analyze data from field investigations and develop action plans for risk mitigation

- Apply traffic engineering techniques to identify improvements for transit and roadway transportation projects

- Oversee cross-functional teams of engineers, planners, and scientists on small to mid-level projects

- Develop innovative concepts for strategic intersection and corridor improvements

- Design communications networks and traffic signal improvements for remote corridor operations

- Collaborate on proposal and business development opportunities

- Stay current with the latest traffic engineering techniques and practices

Requirements:

- Bachelor's degree in Engineering or a related discipline

- 7-10 years of relevant post-education experience in engineering and prior traffic design experience

- Engineer license required

- Highly proficient in traffic engineering principles, practices, and software

- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills

- Strong self-leadership and ability to work independently

- Proven track record of upholding workplace safety and adhering to company policies

## Skills

### Required
- traffic engineering
- Vissim
- Synchro/SimTraffic
- HCS
- transportation planning
- traffic operations analysis
- travel demand forecasting

### Nice to have
- Master's Degree in Engineering
- PTOE certification
- project management experience

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