Job Description
Arcadis is looking for a Staff Traffic Engineer with interest in traffic engineering, intelligent transportation systems and traffic operations and design to join our Nashville team.
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:
You will assist our growing traffic and ITS group in developing Integrated Corridor Management (ICM) and Active Traffic Management (ATM) polices, conducting traffic studies, utilizing data to identify operational and safety needs, preparing plans, and CAV corridor planning. You will have the opportunity to work alongside senior engineers across the Southeast to gain a better understanding of the transportation industry and to further develop your technical skills.
Arcadis offers global experience in the latest intelligent transportation system (ITS) implementations, crafting customized solutions for local transportation needs. Since many of our traffic and transportation engineers have served in state or municipal capacities, we have a deep, localized understanding of regulatory and policy objectives.
Role accountabilities:
- Assist our growing traffic engineering group in Tennessee in the preparation of engineering reports, studies and analyses in a wide-range of areas including traffic operations, safety, travel demand modeling and transportation planning projects.
- Utilizes basic knowledge and experience with conducting and documenting traffic studies using nationally accepted modeling practice.
- Conducts traffic operational analysis using microscopic simulation software such as VISSIM, Synchro, SimTraffic.
- Responsibilities also include analysis of traffic signal operation on arterials and networks, specification of applicable data collection, development of new signal timing parameters based on detailed analysis, inputting traffic signal plans via central control systems and/or directly into local controllers, and design and analysis of traffic surveys to evaluate signal timing effectiveness.
- Assisting senior engineers in the preparation of traffic engineering plans for signal designs, signing and markings designs, and Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) designs.
- Assisting senior engineers with concept report preparation and conceptual designs for intersection improvements.
- Additional responsibilities will include operational analysis using microscopic simulation for intersections, corridors, and interchange traffic.
- Assisting in the developing ICM and ATM operations and maintenance policies, procedures and manuals
- Assisting in the Implementation of ICM and ATM operations and maintenance policies
Required Qualifications:
- 4 or more years of transportation or traffic engineering experience
- B.S. in Civil Engineering or related field from accredited university
- U.S. Driver’s License
- EIT with the ability to obtain your PE within two years of hire.
Key Skills /Attributes:
- Experience in one or more of the following areas: TDOT design standards, ITS design, Traffic Operations Studies, Intersection Conceptual drafting, and Safety Studies.
- Basic understanding of the use of traffic analysis tools (e.g., VISSIM, CORSIM, Synchro/SimTraffic, and HCS).
- Experience/ familiarity with Microstation, Synchro, VISSIM and/or Sidra
- Basic understanding of the application of traffic operations principles including ITE, MUTCD, AASHTO, and state DOT requirements, policies, manuals and procedures.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Ability to work well in groups as well as independently.
- Traffic Signal Field Operations / Implementation Experience
Preferred Qualifications:
- Master’s Degree in Civil Engineering
- PTOE
- TDOT or local TN project experience
- Experience using Microstation, ArcGIS and Synchro/Sim Traffic
- Understanding and familiarity with MUTCD and DOT Design Guidelines and Standards (Georgia DOT and Tennessee DOT)
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office software including Word, Excel and PowerPoint
- Experience using Centracs ATMS or similar platforms
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, and1 15 days PTO that accrue per year. The salary range for this position is $82400 – 123000.
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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