Job Description
Arcadis seeks a Traffic Management Center Specialist with TMC experience to join the team in Nashville, TN.
At Arcadis we focus on attracting, retaining and developing people who share our passion and commitment to improve quality of life. In return we offer you the opportunity to transform your world and the world around you, that could be through client work, upskilling yourself, championing equality and inclusion or getting involved in charity work, to name just a few. Our people value different perspectives, they care about the sustainability of our planet and dare to shape the future.
One of our core values is ‘people first’, and supported by our Lovinklaan foundation, we invest in you for the long term, to ensure you reach your full potential. You’ll have the opportunity to own your career and work on industry-defining projects, finding solutions to real challenges that make a difference to people’s lives. You’re encouraged to have a growth mindset and are given the space to develop personally and professionally, building a flexible career that works for you.
Role description:
In this role you will assist our growing Traffic & ITS engineering group in Nashville.
Role accountabilities:
- Maintain a strong familiarity of the ICM, understanding its operations, maintenance, constraints, and limitations.
- Inspect and monitor assigned ICM projects to ensure compliance with TDOT’s specifications, standards, and codes; review equipment submittals; review contractors’ monthly pay requests and adjust any items inconsistent with actual work performed.
- Manage the ICM freeway operations (Lane Control System (LCS), Variable Speed Limits (VSL), Ramp Meters, etc.) by directing and coordinating activities consistent with the established goals, objectives, and policies according to the respective SOGs.
- Enter incident information for the ICM into TDOT SmartWay Central Software and follow standard operating procedures to dispatch, monitor, and document roadway incidents.
- Operate all ITS devices in the Region TMC using computer-based traffic management systems and employ these tools to manage traffic and incidents on roadways, provide accurate roadway information to the public, and improve the TSM&O network for all users.
- Operate various TSM&O systems (i.e., VSL, LCS, express lanes; ramp metering; dynamic merge).
- Maintain advanced knowledge on the operation of all ITS equipment, computers, and software associated with the Region TMC systems.
- Utilize ITS equipment for incident management and the improvement of travel time, safety, and quality of service for the traveling motorists and toll customers.
- Is aware of, and continually checks the accuracy and validity of the messages displayed on all DMSs and 511.
- Provide real time traveler information on Dynamic Message Signs (DMS).
- Manage special event operations as directed by TDOT.
- Cooperate with Region TMC partners (THP, TDOT, HELP Operators, Local Law Enforcement, Fire Rescue, etc.) as well as Emergency Operations Centers, adjacent TMCs and other TDOT Districts to coordinate resources for incidents.
- Relay incident and roadway information to other TDOT departments and coordinate with Asset Maintenance staff to respond to roadway events.
- Monitor the status of traffic signal and system operations, corridor congestion, and traffic flow, etc. by technology tools including advanced traffic management systems, travel time monitoring, and CCTV cameras.
- Support staff in identifying traffic congestion along the arterial network, based on pre-defined performance measures, while implementing pre-defined traffic mitigation measures in a timely manner.
- Use asset management system for project devices to monitor, log tickets, and update maintenance statuses.
- Provide ongoing system monitoring and reporting of the ICM including but not limited to:
- Detector diagnostics.
- Centracs central traffic management software reporting.
- Automated Traffic Signal Performance Measures (ATSPM).
- Monthly preventive maintenance checks.
- Weekly checks of equipment communication status.
- Region Integrated Transportation Information System (RITIS) analysis / BlueTOAD analysis.
- Monitor incidents and log using SmartWay Central Software (SWCS)
Qualifications & Experience:
Required Qualifications
- 4 or more years’ experience working as a traffic management center specialist in lieu of a Bachelor’s degree
- Experience operating TDOT’s SmartWay Central Software
- Demonstrated ability to communicate complex issues in plain language verbally and in writing
- Ability to work with peers, superiors, and subordinates in an office and field environment.
- Ability to drive automobiles and small trucks, with a valid Tennessee Driver’s License.
- Pass client-performed background security check and maintain ability to work within client facility, if applicable.
Key Attributes:
- Customer service experience.
- Good written and verbal communications skills.
- Currently located in or willing to relocate to Nashville TN.
Preferred Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in an associated field
- Knowledge and ability to operate Signal Control Central Software (e.g., Centracs).
- IMSA Transportation Center System Specialist Level I
- An understanding of key concepts and the technology used for devices, equipment, and software that a TMC may utilize in daily operations.
- Knowledge of data collection, manual and automatic incident detection, telecommunications, sub-systems, video, operations and control, network topology and security, wired and wireless physical plant, computer aided dispatching and analysis/reporting.
Arcadis offers benefits for full time positions. These benefits include medical, dental, and vision, EAP, 401K, STD, LTD, AD&D, life insurance, paid parental leave, reward & recognition program and optional benefits including adoption assistance and tuition reimbursement. We offer seven paid holidays and potentially up to two floating holidays per calendar year depending on start, and 15 days PTO that accrue per year. The salary range for this position is $52000 – $78000 / year.
Why Become an Arcadian?
Our work with clients has a direct impact on people’s lives and on the planet. We make moving, living and belonging in cities safer, more resilient and more sustainable. By partnering with our clients as responsible custodians of our earth’s resources, we can create a sustainable planet.
We continue to think of new ways to make positive impacts and create better experiences for people; data driven and digital solutions have become part of the Arcadis DNA. Working together with clients and using techniques like design thinking, we can get to the heart of our clients’ most pressing challenges and work together to solve them.
As a global business, we have committed to support five of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals to ensure that our projects contribute to a better and more sustainable future for all. But it’s not just the work that we do on client projects that benefits communities and our planet. As a global business, we are committed to making a positive impact to society by supporting local communities where we operate.
To help protect our planet, we monitor and measure non-financial information to inform business decisions and reduce our own environmental impact as part of our commitment to be net zero carbon as a global company by 2030.
Our Commitment to Equality, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging:
We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day which is why we take equality and inclusion seriously and hold ourselves to account for our actions. Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people. We are an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. Women, minorities, people with disabilities and veterans are strongly encouraged to apply. We are dedicated to a policy of non-discrimination in employment on any basis including race, creed, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, citizenship status, disability, veteran status, or any other basis prohibited by law.
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