Transportation Engineer

Position Challenge / Qualification Profile

Position Summary: Reporting to the Transportation Manager, your main focus will be providing transportation engineering services to the Calgary Office, Transportation Department.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Provide clients with traffic engineering  transportation planning services, including work on: traffic impact studies ; transportation master plan studies; environmental assessments for transportation facilities; parking studies; traffic data collection/analysis; traffic calming studies; traffic signal justification reviews; safety assessments; transportation study peer reviews and design of traffic control  devices
• roadway facility functional, preliminary and detailed design services, including work on: rural highways; urban freeways and roadways; intersection design; guiderails, signing, pavement markings, profiles, cross sections, and estimating quantities
• Prepare documentation related to current or prospective projects, including correspondence, reports, proposals, expressions of interest, specifications and meeting minutes
• Carry out some project management activities such as project team coordination, monitoring schedule and budget compliance and assisting with invoice preparation
• Communicate and work with other project team members to provide quality service to clients to ensure that all the documentation conforms to client/company standards
• Promote the company to current and potential clients in order to generate future business
• Liaise with and assist other firm departments and offices in the provision of roadways facility design services to clients
• Checking drawing and quantities
• Constructions inspection/administration
• other duties as assigned    

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering
• Master's degree in Civil Engineering (preferred)
• Registered Professional Engineer in Alberta (APEGGA), or eligible for registration
• Registered Professional Traffic Operations Engineer (PTOE) (preferred)
• Five years experience in traffic engineering, traffic operations and transportation planning
• Strategic, analytical and practical thinker
• Excellent presentation, facilitation and writing skills
• Excellent project management skills
• Demonstrated experience with geometric design of roadway facilities
• Practical experience with traffic data collection, modeling and analysis, traffic impact assessments, traffic signal timing development, parking studies, urban and rural intersection design and capacity analysis, and freeway weaving analysis
• Practical experience in traffic operations analysis using Highway Capacity Manual and Canadian Capacity Guide methodologies and related software (HCS, Synchro, CCG) (desirable)
• Knowledge of and experience with the application of Alberta/Canadian traffic engineering standards (Geometric Design Standards for Alberta Highways, TAC Geometric Design Guide, Manual on Uniform Traffic Control, etc.)
• Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Project)
• Experience with AutoCAD, VISSIM, Paramics, Tmodel/2, EMME/2, TransCAD, SIDRA, RCADY (desirable)
• Microstation, Auto Turn (desirable)
• Previous consulting experience an asset
• Valid Driver's License
   

Compensation

Our client provides a highly competitive salary and performance- based bonus programme.  In addition, as an employee owned company, Our client provides opportunities for share ownership to selected staff in senior positions.

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Submit your resume to:  resumes@virtualhrab.com 

(please have Transportation Engineer as the subject line in your email)