Traffic Design Engineer
US-TX-Austin
Job ID: 2026-6304
Type: Regular Full-Time
# of Openings: 1
Category: Transportation Planning & Design
US-TX-Austin
Overview
As a Traffic Engineering Professional Engineer, you will lead and deliver traffic engineering components of complex transportation projects and provide technical expertise in traffic operations, traffic control, and safety-focused design. You will apply independent engineering judgment, oversee design development, and collaborate closely with project engineers, project managers, and clients to deliver accurate, efficient, and constructible traffic design solutions.
Responsibilities
- Lead the development and delivery of traffic engineering design plans, technical specifications, and cost estimates for transportation projects.
- Design and oversee traffic control systems including traffic signals, signing, pavement markings, lighting, and work zone traffic control.
- Perform and review traffic engineering calculations, modeling, and analyses, ensuring compliance with applicable standards, agency criteria, and client requirements.
- Coordinate and integrate traffic design activities across multidisciplinary teams; provide mentorship and technical guidance to junior engineers and designers.
- Support project engineers and managers with quality control reviews, schedule tracking, risk management, and coordination of traffic-related design deliverables.
- Support and interpret intersection, corridor, and multimodal traffic studies as they relate to design implementation and final construction plans.
- Prepare engineer’s opinions of probable construction cost (OPCC) and participate in agency and public meetings as the traffic engineering representative.
Qualifications
- Bachelor of Science degree in Civil Engineering with an emphasis in Transportation Engineering.
- 4–8+ years of directly related traffic engineering design experience.
- Professional Engineer (PE) license
- Experience with AutoCAD, and MicroStation, and ORD and experience with traffic analysis and simulation software such as Synchro, VISSIM, HCS, or similar tools.
- Proficiency with Excel
- This hybrid job operates between an office environment and a field environment and routinely requires the use of standard office equipment such as computers, phones and copy machines. May require occasional exposure to work environments that may include inclement weather, heat, humidity, noise, hazard, atmospheric conditions, and bodies of water, depending on project requirements.
- While performing the duties of this job, physical demands of the employee include frequent sitting, moving, standing, talking, hearing, and occasional balancing, stooping, kneeling, crouching, reaching, handling, grasping, and feeling. This job may occasionally require operating a company vehicle, and lifting, carrying, pushing, and pulling up to 35 lbs.
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