Traffic Services Engineer III - 55008871

Traffic Services Engineer III - 55008871

The mission of the Florida Department of Transportation is to provide a safe statewide transportation system that promotes the efficient movement of people and goods, supports the state's economic competitiveness, prioritizes Florida's environment and natural resources, and preserves the quality of life and connectedness of the state's communities.

As a OneFDOT 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.

The work you will do:

Traffic Services Engineer III - District Five / District Traffic Operations / Traffic Studies & Services

This position will help to ensure the safe and efficient movement of people and goods by analyzing traffic patterns, implementing traffic control systems, and developing solutions to address traffic congestion and safety concerns. This position will interact with the public, elected officials, other engineers, and regional stakeholders. This position will also manage a team of other staff to help accomplish agency goals.

The difference you will make:

Through cooperation, coordination and collaboration among the OneFDOT team, you will be contributing to a strong and empowering culture of TRREC: Trust, Relationships, Respect, Empowerment, and Communication.

How you will grow:

FDOT encourages our team members to grow through engagement, empowerment, training, and professional development. Through our agency's learning management system, you have access to hundreds of computer-based training and instructor-led courses.

Where you will work:

District Five

District Traffic Operations

719 S. Woodland Blvd.

DeLand, FL 32720

Annual salary range: $96,245.72 - $124,553.29

Your specific responsibilities:

Directs, supervises and manages the Traffic Studies & Services Sub-Sections. Supervises employees spending the majority of the time communicating with, motivating, training, and evaluating employees, and planning and directing employees' work. Has the authority to effectively recommend the hiring, transferring, suspension, lay off, recall's, promotions, discharges, assignments, rewards, or disciplinary actions for subordinate employees. Plans and directs workloads, deadlines, work objectives and time utilization with subordinate staff. Provides direction and ensures that all subordinates receive training and instruction in methods and techniques necessary to safely perform their assigned tasks.

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.

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, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic and Time-bound) objectives in staff expectations, and identifying and making resource recommendations.

The successful candidate will have the following knowledge, skills, and abilities:

Knowledge of:

• Concepts, terminology, principles and analytical techniques of engineering.
• TSM&O concepts, terminology, principles and practice.
• Traffic signal system design, operation, maintenance and performance measurement.
• The Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices (MUTCD).
• Traffic engineering study guidelines.
• Identifying, analyzing and solving traffic operations, operational problems.
• Business plan development and implementation.
• Contract management.

Skills in:

• Traffic engineering study guidelines.
• Identifying, analyzing and solving traffic operations, operational problems.
• Developing and making presentations.
• The use of computer applications such as Microsoft Word processing, spreadsheet, presentations applications, Email and internet.
• Establishing working relationships effectively and working with others, outside the line of formal authority, to accomplish organizational goals and to identify and resolve problems.

Ability to:

• Supervise employees.
• Analyze and interpret engineering data.
• Communicate effectively, verbally and in writing.

Licensure/Registration/Certification requirements:

• Registered Professional Engineer in accordance with Chapter 471, Florida Statutes.

Other job-related requirements:

• Due to the nature of this position, incumbent is required to respond to emergencies. This position requires a Level II Background Check in accordance with the Statewide Law Enforcement Radio System (SLERS) and Section 282.709, Florida Statutes.

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
• 10 paid holidays a year
• Generous vacation and sick leave
• Career advancement opportunities
• Tuition waiver for public college courses
• A variety of training opportunities
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

For additional benefit information available to State of Florida employees, visit: https://www.mybenefits.myflorida.com/

You will 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 at (850) 414-5300 for assistance.

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.