Senior Traffic Engineer Job Listing at City of Edmonton in Edmonton, AB (Job ID 49506)

Description

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The City of Edmonton's Traffic Operations section presents an exceptional chance to join a team within the City Operations Department critical to making our traffic system run safely and efficiently.  As a Senior Traffic Engineer, you'll lead engineers and technicians tasked with signals designs, adjusting traffic signals, coordinating capital projects, and maintaining the traffic control network in Edmonton. Your effectiveness will be gauged by your adept management of yearly programs and projects, all while fostering a culture of respect, inclusivity, and service among your team.

Aligned with the City of Edmonton's Cultural Commitments (Safe, Helpful, Accountable, Integrated and Excellent), you will:

• Develop, supervise and mentor a team of professional traffic signal engineers and engineering technologists and technicians
• Develop business area and engineering processes, guidelines, design criteria, acceptance testing, and specifications for active traffic control devices, traffic management and communication systems and Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS)
• Balance modal priority within the road network for the safe and efficient movement of transit, people, bicycles and vehicles
• Oversee the effective management and delivery of annual capital programs and special projects, including the establishment of scope of work and procurement documentation for contractors or professional consulting services
• Review both internal engineering designs and external stakeholders and consultants work
• Direct, assign and manage work of contractors and consultants for traffic signal and ITS construction and maintenance projects
• Contribute to the design, review and approve railway interconnection requirements and the associated modifications to traffic control systems
• Develop strategies, survey and collect data, and model traffic flows within the city to provide safe and financially accountable solutions to traffic congestion issues
• Assess road closures and detours to identify impacts on traffic flow and surrounding network roadways; review/prepare signal timing to accommodate and mitigate impacts
• Address citizen and Councillor inquiries regarding traffic engineering and operation
• Perform other related duties as required