Regional Traffic Engineer Team Lead - ( 240003GD )

Description

Do you see your career as a highway to a brighter future? Join our roadways team to drive forth our economies, our societies, and your career.

We create great places and the connections that get people and goods moving—whether by car, bus, train, plane, or their own two feet. Working within the context of the communities we serve, we provide planning, engineering, and infrastructure management services that fit the needs of our clients and improve the overall transportation experience. Join our team and help us keep communities connected.

The Regional Transportation Team throughout Arizona, Colorado, and New Mexico is a dynamic and vibrant group, focused on delivering innovative solutions for today’s civic challenges to a diverse set of clients. Building on each other’s talents, we collaborate across all disciplines—Buildings, Energy & Resources, Environmental Services, Water, Digital Technologies, and more—to make our communities safer, more resilient, and exciting places to live and work.

We encourage our team to push the limits in an entrepreneurial and energetic environment, focusing on developing our team’s skillsets while advancing individual careers. We routinely engage with experts throughout North America, making the most of today’s technology and being the first to create new ones. With 30,000 employees worldwide and more than 725 in Colorado, you will have access to global expertise while working alongside our close-knit regional team.

We’re driving the future of transportation infrastructure. This is a place to apply your passion and grow with endless opportunities to help advance communities, today and tomorrow.

Your Opportunity

Join and lead a team driven to improve transportation safety, increase multimodal accessibility, and engage in emerging technologies! Stantec is seeking a Regional Transportation Planning & Traffic Engineering Group Lead to join our growing Transportation practice in the Mountain Region. You will engage with all aspects of our transportation practice and associated experts around the globe including roadway, traffic, multimodal, transit, planning and design, structural, environmental, hydraulic, and more. The ideal candidate will be able to provide strategic support to our business development and project pursuit efforts, as well as lead and organize the work of a technical team in the planning, design, and construction phases of transportation projects for established clients.

You will work closely with office and regional leadership to implement sound business development and project delivery practices advancing our qualifications and capabilities in a progressive and entrepreneurial environment. The person in this position will need a strong emphasis in group and project management of operational analysis and design throughout all areas of transportation planning and traffic engineering.

Your Key Responsibilities

Traffic Engineering and Project Management:

• Provide mentorship to a team of direct reports for the development of scopes of work, level of effort estimates, and project schedules

• Provide project technical delivery oversight and QA for a range of transportation and traffic disciplines, including planning, analysis, design related to roadways/highways, intersections/interchanges, and associated facilities to meet local, state, and federal requirements when applicable

• Coordinate with other transportation and traffic engineers throughout the region to grow our role as a resource hub within US West through transfer of knowledge and effective project management

• Supervising the work of traffic engineers for a wide range of projects including modeling and operations, microsimulation, geometric and signal improvement design, and construction maintenance of traffic

• Provide management and quality control for plan, specification, and estimate package preparation and submittal

• Project management, including alternative delivery, for significant traffic projects and multi-disciplinary projects involving traffic in accordance with industry and Stantec best practices

• Preparing contract documents, cost estimates, reports, and proposal

• Preparing and presenting information to clients, the public, and other stakeholders

• Leading project coordination meetings with internal team members and/or owners, external consultants, and vendors

People, Process, and Business Leadership:

• Support the creation of a diverse and driven culture solving tomorrow’s engineering solutions

• Manage a weekly or bi-weekly meeting across regional TPTE staff for resource planning, workshare opportunities, and business development

• Develop and support a business strategy for transportation planning and traffic engineering in Colorado and the US West region for local, state, and federal agencies, and private owners

• Manage and mentor a group of five to seven traffic engineers in the state and region on all aspects of traffic engineering and transportation planning including workload and resources

• Support the establishment and maintenance of relationships with key clients throughout the Mountain Region, with an emphasis on CDOT, Front Range agencies, ADOT, City of Phoenix, and local agencies

• Offer creative planning and pursuit strategy solutions that support multi-disciplinary collaboration towards client goals and objectives, and support and/or lead the pursuit strategy for projects including proposal development

• Track and develop business strategies in conjunction with local, state, and federal funding opportunities and anticipated project list

• Facilitate the integration of transportation planning and traffic engineering efforts including multimodal and transit opportunities

• Identify and pursue client opportunities within the ITS, SmartMobility, Connected and Autonomous vehicle, and reduced emissions sectors and lead integration with Stantec resources to pursue and establish a local presence in market space.

• Internal people leadership in engineering excellence, recruitment and retention

• Staff management including performance reviews and career development

Qualifications

Your Capabilities and Credentials

• Professional Engineer License in Colorado required

• Professional Engineer License in other US West states preferred

• Professional Traffic Operations Engineer (PTOE) and/or American Institute of Certified Planners (AICP)preferred

• Familiarity with local, state and federal and regulatory requirements

• Ability to manage and mentor transportation staff in successful delivery of projects

• Ability to develop and implement transportation growth strategy for Colorado and region

• Proposal preparation experience; project management; project design experience; contract negotiation

• Experience with key client methods/processes and a working knowledge of AASHTO, MUTCD, and other transportation and traffic design standards

• Experience and ability to pursue, secure, and manage projects involving traffic impact studies, signal operations and timing, corridor studies, geometric alternatives analyses, microsimulation, macrosimulation, travel demand modeling and transportation planning.

• Ability and passion to expand skillsets of the team, related to CV/AV, EV or other innovative and sustainable solutions; pursue, secure, and manage such projects.

• Experience with complex intersection and interchange geometry analysis and/or design including SPUI, roundabout, diverging diamond, two and four leg continuous flow intersections.

• Experience with and familiarity to lead a team using CDOT Roadway Design Guide, Highway Capacity Software, SYNCHRO, VISSIM, SIDRA, RODEL

• Strong leadership, interpersonal, and presentation skills

• Good verbal and written communication skills

• Valid driver’s license and good driving record required

Education and Experience

• Bachelor’s Degree in Civil Engineering or greater

• Professional Engineer (PE) license in Colorado. Additional licensure, or ability to acquire, within western US preferred

• Professional Traffic Operations Engineer (PTOE)and/or American Institute of Certified Planners (AICP) preferred

• Minimum 15 years of combined experience in transportation (roadway, multimodal, and/or transit), project development and delivery, and staff management.

• Up to 10% travel, as needed, is anticipated to engage with staff and clients in various markets including industry events.

This description is not a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that may be required of the employee and other duties, responsibilities and activities may be assigned or may be changed at any time with or without notice.

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Salary Range(s):

• $161,500 - $250,500 Min/Max Pay Range for postings located in CO and HI and MD

The final agreed upon compensation is based on individual education, qualifications, experience, and work location. At Stantec certain roles are bonus eligible.

Benefits Summary: Regular full-time and part-time employees have access to medical, dental, and vision plans, a wellness program, health saving accounts, flexible spending accounts, 401(k) plan, employee stock purchase program, life and accidental death & dismemberment (AD&D) insurance, short-term/long-term disability plans, emergency travel benefits, tuition reimbursement, professional membership fee coverage and paid family leave. Regular full-time and part-time employees will receive ten paid holidays in each calendar year. In addition, employees will be eligible to accrue vacation between 10 and 20 days per year and eligible for paid sick leave (and if more generous, in accordance with state and local law).

Temporary/casual employees have access to 401(k) plans, employee stock purchase program, and paid leave, in accordance with state and local law.

The benefits information listed above may not apply to union positions because benefits for such positions are governed by applicable collective bargaining agreements.

Primary Location : United States-Colorado-Denver

Other Locations : United States-New Mexico-Albuquerque, United States-Colorado-Colorado Springs, United States-New Mexico-Las Cruces, United States-Arizona-Chandler

Organization : BC-1817 Transpt-US Southwest

Employee Status : Regular

Job Level : Manager

Travel : Yes, 10 % of the Time

Schedule : Full-time

Job Posting : Oct 10, 2024, 11:42:26 AM

Req ID: 240003GD

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