Requisition No: 794805
Agency: Department of Transportation
Working Title: TRAFFIC SERVICES ENGINEER II – 55011840
Position Number: 55011840
Salary: $79,054.28 – $102,305.54
Posting Closing Date: 06/30/2023
STATE OF FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
JOB POSTING DESCRIPTION
162 / TRAFFIC OPERATIONS
OPEN COMPETITIVE
CAREER SERVICE
CONTACT PERSON: Walter Breuggeman
CONTACT PHONE NUMBER: 863-519-2490
CONTACT EMAIL ADDRESS: Walter.Breuggeman@dot.state.fl.us
ANTICIPATED BI-WEEKLY HIRING SALARY: $3,577.12
Working for the State of Florida is more than a paycheck. The State’s total compensation package for employees features a highly competitive set of employee benefits including:
- Health insurance (over 90% employer paid)
- $25,000 life insurance policy (100% employer paid)
- Dental, vision and supplemental insurances
- State of Florida retirement package
- Generous vacation and sick leave
- 10 paid holidays a year
- Career advancement opportunities
- Tuition waiver for public college courses
- Training opportunities
- Flexible work schedules and telework (for designated positions)
Join FDOT and be part of the team that works as one to improve safety, enhance mobility and inspire innovation in the Florida transportation system!
For additional benefit information available to State of Florida employees, go to http://www.mybenefits.myflorida.com
Florida Department of Transportation
The Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) is an executive agency and reports directly to the Governor’s Office. FDOT’s continuing mission is to provide a safe transportation system that ensures the mobility of people and goods, enhances economic prosperity, and preserves the quality of our environment and communities. This mission is accomplished through a primary purpose to plan and develop (either directly or indirectly) Florida’s robust transportation system. The unique nature of the Sunshine State and its year-round warm climate provides numerous opportunities to move people and goods through multiple modes including highways/streets, air, rail, sea, spaceport, transit and ever-expanding deployment of bicycle & pedestrian facilities.
Our Values
ONE FDOT – We are one agency, one team.
INTEGRITY – We always do what is right.
RESPECT – We value diversity, talent, and ideas.
COMMITMENT – We do what we say we are going to do.
TRUST – We are open and fair.
CUSTOMER DRIVEN – We listen to our customers.
Our Mission
FDOT will provide a safe transportation system that ensures the mobility of people and goods, enhances economic prosperity, and preserves the quality of our environment and communities.
Our Vision
As One FDOT team, we serve the people of Florida by providing a transportation network that is well planned, supports economic growth, and has the goal of being congestion and fatality free.
Why Join FDOT?
Because we are a proud and committed team seeking to attract, recruit, train, and retain a diverse workforce comprised of the best and brightest professionals. We value diversity in background and experiences, seeking to build a team of professionals who will foster a dynamic, inclusive, and collaborative work environment. Those individuals who consistently help FDOT inspire, innovate, and improve safety for all our transportation modes.
Opportunities for Growth and Professional Development
FDOT is an incredible place to work, offering a myriad of opportunities for career growth and professional development.
What better way to refine both your technical and power skills than through applied training? FDOT’s Training Mission is to improve productivity and meet workforce needs, as specified in the requirements of Title X of the Florida Statutes, §§ 110.1099, 110.235, 110.403(3)(a), & 110.601.
FDOT accomplishes this mission by:
- Providing opportunities to better use and enhance employee skills and creating an atmosphere that encourages self-development,
- Developing, delivering, and coordinating programs to improve leadership, managerial and supervisory skills and implementing strategies to help managers and supervisors fulfill their responsibility to develop employees,
- Recommending, designing, delivering, and coordinating training efforts to increase job satisfaction and productivity, resulting in a highly trained workforce providing the highest possible return to our citizens,
- Projecting, assessing, and interpreting workforce needs and recommending solutions,
- Ensuring a resource pool for FDOT’s professional and technical workforce requirements, and
- Collaborating with districts to diagnose and design strategies to solve specific work group problems.
Where Will I Work?
District 1 Headquarters located at 801 N. Broadway Avenue, Bartow 33830. Bartow is minutes from Lakeland and Winter Haven and centrally located between Tampa and Orlando, with a 1-hour drive to either Tampa or the Disney Theme Parks. Multiple lakes and other attractions in nearby Winter Haven.
Nearby Colleges – Florida Polytechnic University, Warner University, Florida Southern, Southeastern, and Polk State College
What Will My Role Be?
The Traffic Services Engineer II’s main role is to make a positive difference in the lives of the traveling public with a focus on improving safety for all users and improving traffic operations in an equitable manner.
This position will manage an established Traffic Studies team (2 employees + consultant support). You and your team will be conducting and reviewing various safety and operational studies and implementing improvements to address the needs of our customers.
The ideal candidate should have traffic study experience, but more importantly be a person with strong people skills who builds and maintains positive relationships and can communicate effectively to multiple audiences.
FDOT makes developing our managers a priority. This includes growing their technical and leadership abilities with a focus on a culture of cooperation and innovation.
Your duties and responsibilities in this role will be to:
- Directs and supervises staff and provide advanced engineering and technical guidance for the District Traffic Operations Office Traffic Studies area. Meets regularly with employees to assign work, establish work objectives and timelines to ensure working objectives are met. Evaluates employee’s performance, during established time frames, throughout the year and at formal review periods. Motivates and trains and/or ensures required training is available for staff. Communicates regularly with direct reports, both individually and in staff meetings. Encourages and supports staff development. Ensures that all the paperwork required for processing pay documents and personnel matters, including performance appraisals, disciplinary actions, filing vacant positions and separations, are completed accurately and processed in a timely manner.
- Develop and review engineering reports and studies. This includes study documentation and presentation of findings and conclusions, analysis of engineering data, and coordination of resources necessary to produce reports. Signs and seals engineering documents as required.
- Assist Traffic Services Program Engineer in coordinating project production with the Department’s Work Program. This includes establishing and maintaining effective working relationships with the district’s Work Program Unit so that project schedule and control can be efficiently managed. Assist with the development and coordination of Traffic Operations work program.
- Provide review comments on plan submittals generated by the Department and other entities. This includes developing technical comments directed to the design project manager or design engineer of record based on traffic engineering fundamentals, Department design standards, and engineering judgment. Includes accepting/rejecting the responses to those comments.
- Participate in meetings, on committees, task teams and other groups with internal and external customers to represent traffic engineering interests. Includes, providing useful commentary and review of work products as well as developing correspondence and follow-up contact as needed. Coordinates and responds to local officials, their representatives and the general public on requests for traffic signals and modifications to speed zones.
- Assist District Traffic Services Engineer in implementing business and related plans to guide resource allocation and achieve unit performance targets. Includes collaborating with others in plan development, reporting plan results, linking performance targets to SMART (Specific, Measureable, Achievable, Realistic and Time-bound) objectives in staff expectations, and identifying and making resource recommendations.
- Manages district wide traffic studies consultant contracts. This includes programming the projects in the work program, preparing scope and manhours, scheduling studies and reviewing reports prepared by the consultants.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
- Knowledge of traffic engineering principles and practices;
- Knowledge of management principles and practices;
- Knowledge of traffic operations analysis and study techniques;
- Skill in effective oral communications;
- Skill in use of personal computers and ability to use Microsoft Office® (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access & Outlook);
- Skill in effective written communications;
- Skill in interpreting and disseminating traffic engineering related data;
- Ability to collect, analyze, and interpret engineering data;
- Ability to manage workload to produce on time resolutions to problems;
- Ability to lead, manage, and work with diverse groups of people;
- Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships;
- Ability to supervise people.
Minimum Qualifications
This position requires registration as a Professional Engineer in the State of Florida, pursuant to Chapter 471 of the Florida Statutes.
Other job-related requirement for this position: Employee will be required to be responsive to emergency situations within a very short timeframe and serve in the Transportation Emergency Management Team.
SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS: You may be required to provide your Social Security Number to conduct required verifications. Male applicants born on or after October 1, 1962 will not be eligible for hire or promotion in the Career Service, or appointment in the Selected Exempt Service (SES) or Senior Management Service (SMS) unless they are registered with the Selective Service System (SSS) before their 26th birthday, or have a Letter of Registration Exemption from the SSS.
THE FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION VALUES AND SUPPORTS EMPLOYMENT OF INDIVIDUALS WITH DISABILITIES. QUALIFIED INDIVIDUALS WITH DISABILITIES ARE ENCOURAGED TO APPLY.
In accordance with Section 110.112, Florida Statutes, and the Florida Department of Transportation’s Individuals with Disabilities Affirmative Action Plan, the agency is committed to ensuring affirmative action and equal employment opportunity for qualified individuals with disabilities. Upon request and as appropriate, reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities may be provided. Please contact the Florida Department of Transportation’s Human Resources Office located at 605 Suwannee Street, Tallahassee, Florida 32399 or call (850) 414-5300 for assistance.
As a CANDIDATE, you may be required to provide documentation (i.e. HIGH SCHOOL DIPLOMA OR EQUIVALENCY, college transcripts, ETC.) to verify meeting these Minimum Qualifications.
THE FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION VALUES THE SERVICE VETERANS AND THEIR FAMILY MEMBERS HAVE GIVEN TO OUR COUNTRY AND SUPPORTS THE HIRING OF RETURNING SERVICE MEMBERS AND MILITARY SPOUSES. If you are a preference-eligible applicant who receives notice of a hiring decision and believe that you were not afforded employment preference in accordance with applicable Florida law and regulation, you may file a written complaint within 60 calendar days from the date you receive the notice, requesting an investigation to the Florida Department of Veterans’ Affairs, Division of Benefits and Assistance, 9500 Bay Pines Boulevard, Room 214, St. Petersburg, Florida 33708.
Are You Ready?
If you are ready for consideration as my Traffic Services Engineer II, click on the “Apply Now” button in this advertisement.
The State of Florida is an Equal Opportunity Employer/Affirmative Action Employer, and does not tolerate discrimination or violence in the workplace.
Candidates requiring a reasonable accommodation, as defined by the Americans with Disabilities Act, must notify the agency hiring authority and/or People First Service Center (1-866-663-4735). Notification to the hiring authority must be made in advance to allow sufficient time to provide the accommodation.
The State of Florida supports a Drug-Free workplace. All employees are subject to reasonable suspicion drug testing in accordance with Section 112.0455, F.S., Drug-Free Workplace Act.
VETERANS’ PREFERENCE. Pursuant to Chapter 295, Florida Statutes, candidates eligible for Veterans’ Preference will receive preference in employment for Career Service vacancies and are encouraged to apply. Certain service members may be eligible to receive waivers for postsecondary educational requirements. Candidates claiming Veterans’ Preference must attach supporting documentation with each submission that includes character of service (for example, DD Form 214 Member Copy #4) along with any other documentation as required by Rule 55A-7, Florida Administrative Code. Veterans’ Preference documentation requirements are available by clicking here. All documentation is due by the close of the vacancy announcement.