# Lead Consultant, Traffic Engineering **Company**: WSP USA **Location**: New York, NY, NY **Experience**: senior **Job type**: full-time **Salary**: $122,700.00 - $175,230.00 **Category**: Engineering **Industry**: Consulting **Apply**: https://emit.fa.ca3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/CandidateExperience/en/sites/CX_2001/job/96203?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_af15dddf-058 ## Description WSP USA is seeking a Lead Traffic Engineer to join our team in the New York/New Jersey Metropolitan Area. The role involves providing high-level technical assistance and guidance for multi-site/phase project investigation, remediation, analysis, improvement, planning, engineering, design, and operation of streets and highways. Responsibilities: - Provide guidance with collecting, compiling, and analyzing data from the physical work site, surveys, design plans, GIS data, maps, technical data, and other matrices for project development, design, and construction. - Apply high-level traffic engineering techniques and processes to identify improvements for various project phases involving roadway transportation engineering work. - Perform professional traffic engineering work and conduct investigations and inspections of proposed and existing site conditions, roadways, intersections, roadside safety measures, signing, signals, pavement markings, and transportation corridors. - Oversee and monitor cross-functional teams of engineers and planners to execute project work on mid-level and/or multiple concurrent projects. - Verify the characteristics of a site, providing technical assistance on complex or larger-scale traffic engineering studies, capacity analyses, traffic complaint investigation, traffic plan review, signal system design, monitoring and control, and operations analysis. - Coordinate, review and approve traffic design plans, ensuring data integrity and work is compliant with all applicable codes, ordinances, and regulations. - Work closely with the client as a “trusted advisor” to determine the impact that a new structure, development, or construction project might have on the road system and makes recommendations to mitigate or offset the impact. - Initiate, direct, and apply the results of studies and program reviews to evaluate existing and projected roadway and transportation layouts, traffic impacts of proposed developments. - Analyze, evaluate, and interpret data obtained during field/site investigations, offering input with developing action plans for moderate- to high-level risk mitigation activities. - Prepare data and visualizations such as tables, charts, reports, models, cross-sections, and other illustrations for the interpretation or presentation of more complex data, findings, or analyses. - Prepare comprehensive technical reports and presentations that explain research, concepts, and recommendations. - Prepare and implement site Health and Safety Plans (HASPs). - Interact with regulatory agencies, subcontractors, and clients in a confident and professional manner. - Collaborate with professionals, other engineers, planners, and DOT authorities on Federal, State, regional, and locally funded road and transportation improvement and development projects. - Remain current in latest traffic engineering techniques and practices. Required Qualifications: - Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering, or closely related discipline (or equivalent experience). - 7 to 10 years of relevant post education experience in engineering and prior traffic design experience. - Valid Driver’s License - Proficient and extensive knowledge of traffic engineering principles, practices, process, and design/build related to traffic engineering preliminary and final design. - Experience with roadway planning, design, and construction management. - Well-defined specific knowledge of relevant roadway transportation construction laws, codes, regulations, compliance practices, and record-keeping requirements. - Well-developed ability to make technical computations and calculations involving the application of engineering principles. - Experience in preparing cost estimates, with a focus on construction costs of traffic design elements. - Ability to plan and conduct inspections and investigations on various aspects of transportation corridors. - Highly effective interpersonal and communication skills. - Demonstrated high-level of self-leadership with attention to detail, multi-tasking, and prioritization of responsibilities in a dynamic work environment. - Works independently with minimal oversight and provides guidance and leadership to junior team or project members. - Highly proficient with technical writing, office automation, AutoCAD, technology, math principles, predictive models, spreadsheets, and tools. - Well-developed critical thinking and problem-solving skills. - Demonstrated effectiveness at coordinating and assertively directing subconsultants and others. - Proven track record of upholding workplace safety and ability to abide by WSP’s health, safety and drug/alcohol and harassment policies. Benefits: - Medical, dental, vision, disability, and life coverage - Retirement savings - Paid sick leave - Paid vacation - Paid parental leave - Paid time off for purposes of bereavement, voting, and/or attendance at naturalization proceedings Compensation: - Expected Salary: $122,700.00 - $175,230.00 ## Skills ### Required - traffic engineering - roadway planning - design and construction management - AutoCAD ### Nice to have - Master’s Degree in Engineering - Professional Engineer license - Port Authority of New York & New Jersey (PANYNJ) transportation infrastructure --- Source: [Apply at emit.fa.ca3.oraclecloud.com](https://emit.fa.ca3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/CandidateExperience/en/sites/CX_2001/job/96203?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)