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TDM & Programs Specialist

Coordinates bike, pedestrian, and transit mobility; and the planning, implementing, and evaluating of Transportation Demand Management (TDM) programs. Typical job responsibilities include:

Planning, implementing, and evaluating TDM programs: marketing campaigns, media campaigns, bike/pedestrian safety education, employer TDM programs, outreach, walking/biking events, open streets events and Safe Routes to School programs.
Taking responsibility for every aspect of project management, including managing budgets, schedules, scopes of work, and client service.
Managing the work of team members (both colleagues and sub-consultants) for a successful outcome.
Contributing to the development of proposals, statements of work, contract addenda, and scope change.
Managing the production of materials and incentive items, including content development, managing the client review process, and working with the embedded graphic design team.
Contributing to blogs, social media, and whitepapers.

The Roadway Design Engineer prepares plans and specifications for roadway construction and improvement projects. Before a road structure can be designed, the Engineer must determine the exact route the road will take, how many lanes are needed, how this road interfaces with other roads, and how the flow of traffic will be maintained. Design of the roadway system involves many considerations including safety, parking, traffic calming, pedestrian and bike paths, drainage, highway signs, road markings, signal systems, roadway lighting, impact attenuators, and guide rails. The Roadway Design Engineer conducts traffic studies, participates in public meetings, writes technical reports, and conducts construction analyses.

Other responsibilities typically include:

Performing roadway geometric design for horizontal and vertical alignment from preliminary to final design.
Preparing technical designs in accordance with design standards using roadway design software.
Preparing plan and specification documents including base sheet, details, quantities, special provisions, and estimates.
Coordinating with reviewers to ensure accuracy and quality of work.
Managing and maintaining project documentation.
Design systems or structures using sustainable materials, such as porous pavement or bioretention structures.
Preparing design for drainage and runoff.
Preparing designs that do not damage natural plant and wildlife environments.

Pavement Engineer

A Pavement Engineer designs, evaluates and manages asphalt and concrete pavement systems. The Engineer determines the pavement layer thicknesses and material composition required based on the traffic load. The Engineer collects and reviews data on existing pavements to assess deterioration and remaining service life. They understand how external conditions change the rate of pavement degradation over time. The Pavement Engineer sets the immediate and long-term repair and maintenance strategies.

Other duties typically include:

Design pavements according to the AASHTO Mechanistic-Empirical Pavement Design Guide (MEPDG).
Develop specifications for pavement construction projects.
Observe pavement construction and collect material samples for quality testing.
Test pavement materials to determine compliance to specifications or standards.
Inspect completed roadways to ensure safety and compliance with applicable standards or regulations.
Analyze nondestructive falling weight deflectometer (FWD) deflection measurements.
Work with others to develop pavement rehabilitation plans and designs.
Work with others to implement a pavement management system.
Reviewing concrete and asphalt Superpave mix design data.
Design drainage, erosion, or sedimentation control systems for transportation projects.
Develop plans to deconstruct damaged or obsolete roadways or other transportation structures in a manner that is environmentally sound or prepares the land for sustainable development.

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Construction Engineer

A Highway Construction Engineer is responsible for overseeing roadway projects to completion, on time and within budget. Duties include field layout of projects, general inspection, project management, working with staff, and communicating with clients. The Engineer may be called upon to assist in design engineering duties including: preparing reports, plans, and specifications; researching design standards and code requirements; and conducting field investigations of design problems. The Engineer collaborates with other engineers, technicians, planners, and surveyors.

Other responsibilities typically include:

Control and/or review all project forecasts, schedules, cost estimates, and reports.
Prepare construction cost estimates, project budgets, schedules, or specifications for labor or materials.
Prepare reports and conduct studies of engineering methods, codes, processes, and materials.
Participate in contract bidding, negotiation, or administration.
Responsible for quality control. Investigate or test construction materials to determine compliance with specifications or standards including environmental standards.
Inspect completed transportation projects to ensure safety or compliance with applicable standards or regulations including environmental regulations.
Confer with contractors, utility companies, and the public.
Conduct feasibility and operating studies aimed at evaluating alternative innovative designs.
Develop plans to deconstruct damaged or obsolete roadways or other transportation structures.

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ITS Systems Director

Responsible for citywide technology governance, strategic planning/policy development to advance Smart City solutions for infrastructure, energy, water and waste management; transportation alternatives, building/preoperties, and programs that promote technology literacy and public access to government information. Oversee diverse urban multimodal transportation needs critical to supporting ongoing safe/efficient management of a balanced street system that fully accommodates the needs of people who walk, bike, drive, and use transit.

Other responsibilities typically include:

Collaborate with City departments working to devise Smart City solutions.
Assist departments in managing, analyzing, interpreting data produced through Smart City implementations.
Help departments ensure Smart City projects comply with City laws, policies, and standards.
Work with appropriate IT teams on Smart City projects being proposed/planned.
Ensure City standards of enterprise architecture, project management, procurement, security, privacy, social equity, data management, and performance are factored into the design of Smart City projects.
Maintain a high level of education and awareness of developments in the Smart City technology environment.

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Transportation Safety Data Analyst

A Transportation Safety Data Analyst supports data-driven transportation safety improvements by ensuring that transportation and other relevant organizations collect, manage, and share high quality data in an efficient and coordinated manner to support transportation safety decision-making and resource allocation. They assist others in identifying relationships and trends in data; use techniques to display results of analyses; review data for accuracy, quality, and completeness; establish protocols for data management and security; and utilize multiple strategies to integrate safety data and analysis into transportation decision-making processes.

Other responsibilities typically include:

Developing systems and establishing processes to ensure data quality and type of data elements are properly collected and validated to enable robust safety analysis.
Working with stakeholders from both the public and private sectors to establish interoperability between different data sources to support transportation safety data analytics.
Developing data analysis and data visualization tools, and user interface systems to facilitate data access, user friendly data queries, and data system functionality.
Using advanced predictive analytics, computational methods, and modeling and simulation techniques to identify and mitigate safety risk.