Engineering Manager-Traffic - Chesapeake, VA

Job summary

The City of Chesapeake Public Works Traffic Engineering & Operations Division is seeking a qualified licensed professional engineer to manage all traffic engineering operations and activities.

Responsibilities

• Overseeing traffic engineering and highway improvement programs, customer service efforts, traffic engineering review of new development and city projects, studies of ongoing operational traffic issues, or roadway safety studies/Road Safety Audits.
• Position will oversee response to all citizen requests for traffic engineering services, preparation of engineering studies, and issuance of work orders to the sign and signal shop or contract for implementation.
• Represents the City at Hampton Roads Transportation Technical Advisory Committee, Regional Traffic Operations Committee, and Bicycle and Trails Citizens Committee.
• Negotiates and administers engineering and construction contracts, such as an on-call traffic engineering consulting service contract.
• Position is also responsible for all traffic signal and ITS/TMC system installations by contract and other VDOT hazard elimination grant safety projects.
• Evaluates and approves all traffic control devices used to regulate, warn, or guide traffic that are placed along city streets and highways.
• Ensures substantial conformance with standards issued by FHWA in the Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices (MUTCD), VDOT, or regulated by city code.
• Develops and oversees the implementation of policies and procedures to ensure the flow of operations and accomplishments of goals.
• Assists in the preparation of the division's operating budget.
• Supervises subordinate personnel within the section.
• Oversees transportation planning functions to include revisions to the City's Master Transportation Plan (MTP), collection of traffic and roadway safety data, submission and administration of grants for various transportation programs; including VDOT Hazard Elimination Grant, RTSP, and CMAQ grants, and coordination with Hampton Roads Transit bus service and the various railroad lines that operate in our city.

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