Traffic Clerk, Sr. jobs in Kentucky

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Job Description

AECOM is looking for an experienced Sr. Traffic Safety Engineer (Hybrid) which is located at one of our offices in Detroit, Novi, Chicago, Cleveland, Columbus, Louisville, or the Grand Rapids office, with an emphasis in traffic safety and crash analysis and traffic engineering.  This position also allows remote working flexibility to work in the office and at home and work with a multidisciplinary statewide traffic team. 

Our team works with local and national clients to provide solutions to their transportation needs across all modes of travel. Typical projects and daily tasks are focused on safety related services such as compilation of existing crash data, performing multidisciplinary field reviews, review of crash data to determine potential causes, development of mitigation strategies, and economic benefit cost analyses.  The team member should be able to think independently and creatively to review and develop mitigation measures and present those in presentations and/or reports. 

Team member may also be asked to work on other traffic engineering tasks should there be any downtime in safety analysis, such as operational analysis and/or design. 

Job Responsibilities:

• Performs or oversees—with little supervision—all aspects of safety analysis studies including collection of crash data and analysis of data either in GIS or Excel or other type of software.
• Helps to grow a team of junior engineers in the execution of smaller standalone traffic engineering projects, or traffic entering tasks as part of larger projects.
• Provides day-to-day direct mentoring and guidance to entry level engineers in the execution of their tasks.
• Presents technical findings to internal project teams, clients, and the public.
• Documentation in technical memoranda and reports.
• Follows AECOM and client process in performing quality control tasks of other engineers’ work.
• Assists in workload projections for any direct reports and coordinates with other discipline leads in Michigan.
• Works collaboratively with other discipline leads in Michigan to perform business development activities such as identification of project opportunities, marketing clients, making technical presentations at conferences, assisting with proposal preparation, and assisting with recruiting efforts.
• Assists direct reports in setting and accomplishing goals that advance their professional development.
• Assists project managers in the development of scopes of work, cost estimates, and schedules.
• Proposes approaches to solve new problems encountered using modifications of standard procedures or methods developed in previous assignments.
• Performs work in accordance with agreed upon budget and schedule.

Qualifications

Minimum Requirements:

• BA/BS 4 years of relevant experience or demonstrated equivalency of experience and/or education

Preferred Qualifications:

• 6 years of experience in traffic engineering.
• Experience in supporting business development activities including preparing project proposals and firm marketing.
• Professional Engineer license in the State of Michigan, or the ability to obtain license within 6 months.
• Experience in technical execution of tasks for safety analysis with an emphasis of Safe Streets and Roads for All grants and Road Safety Audits.
• Knowledgeable with Highway Safety Manual, Crash Modification Factors, development of Safety Performance Functions and calibration, Interactive Highway Safety Design Model (IHSDM), and Highway Safety Software (HSS).
• ITE Professional Traffic Operations Engineer (PTOE) and/or Road Safety Professional (RSP1 or RSP2).
• Proficient with standard Microsoft Office applications.
• Ability to communicate effectively (verbally and in writing).
• Experience in task/project management, staff oversight, application and development of technical skills, and experience working directly with internal and external clients.
• Experience in mentorship and development of engineering interns and/or entry level staff.

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You will have the flexibility you need to do your best work with hybrid work options. Whether you’re working from an AECOM office, remote location or at a client site, you will be working in a dynamic environment where your integrity, entrepreneurial spirit and pioneering mindset are championed.

You will help us foster a culture of equity, diversity and inclusion – a safe and respectful workplace, where we invite everyone to bring their whole selves to work using their unique talents, backgrounds and expertise to create transformational outcomes for our clients.

AECOM provides a wide array of compensation and benefits programs to meet the diverse needs of our employees and their families. We also provide a robust global well-being program. We’re the world’s trusted global infrastructure firm, and we’re in this together – your growth and success are ours too.

Join us, and you’ll get all the benefits of being a part of a global, publicly traded firm – access to industry-leading technology and thinking and transformational work with big impact and work flexibility. As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person’s potential, and we’ll help you reach yours.

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