Assistant Civil Engineer - Traffic (Dallas)

Description

Burns & McDonnell's Dallas office is looking for an ambitious and talented Assistant Traffic Engineer to join our growing transportation planning team.

At Burns & McDonnell, you'll be empowered to build not just projects, but your career. Our expansive service offerings means stability, job security and incredible potential for growth. Move up to technical subject matter expert, project management or sales cycle, or explore opportunities across departments and groups. Establish and achieve evolving goals along your career journey - all at the same company.

We're proud to be a 100% employee-owned company. It's the core of our DNA. It fosters a culture of ownership and entrepreneurialism, where each of us has a vested stake in the success of our company and one another. But being employee-owners means more to us than just the financial benefit. We invest in our most important resource - our people - with an industry-leading benefits package that supports physical, emotional and financial health. From robust training programs to a commitment to diversity and inclusion to all the ways we give back, our employee-owners help our clients, our industries and our communities thrive.

As an Assistant Traffic Engineer in our Dallas traffic group, you will work under the supervision of a licensed professional engineer (PE) and Professional Traffic Operations Engineer (PTOE) to assist multidisciplinary project teams to create world class designs for public and private clients on a variety of transportation and development projects.

Our traffic engineers assist our transportation teams through each phase of the project development lifecycle (feasibility study, Schematic & Environmental, Plans, Specification and Estimates. Projects range in type and scale from City/County arterial widenings, innovative intersection designs and traffic impact assessments to billion-dollar multi-level freeway designs, intelligent transportation system architecture, and railway designs.

Opportunities as an Assistant Traffic Engineer include

• Working with a close-knit team of multi-discipline professionals to ensure project success.

• Corresponding and/or meeting with clients, contractors, and vendors.

• Developing traffic operations and safety studies, microsimulation traffic models, traffic impact analyses, and highway capacity analyses.

• Developing traffic phasing for traffic control plans.

• Developing skills in software such as MicroStation, AutoCAD, ArcGIS, HCS, Synchro, PTV Vissim, & OpenRoads.

• Designing traffic control infrastructure (such as signing, striping, lighting, and traffic signal plans).

• Analyzing crash data to identify patterns and develop safety improvement strategies.

Qualifications

• Bachelor Degree in Civil Engineering or related degree from an ABET accredited program required or,

• Bachelor Degree in Civil or related Engineering Technology from an ABET accredited program and successful completion of Fundamentals of Engineering (FE) exam required.

• Prior internship and/or related consulting experience preferred.

• Basic knowledge in standard civil engineering techniques, principles and procedures.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

• Ability to work methodically and analytically in a quantitative problem-solving environment and demonstrated critical thinking skills.

• Proficient computer skills (e.g. Microsoft Office Suite)

• Basic computer skills (e.g. AutoCAD, MicroStation, BIM (Revit), Civil 3D, PLS, PLS-CADD, RISA-3D, MathCADD), and civil analysis programs.

• Strong attention to detail, facilitation, team building, collaboration, organization and problem solving skills.

• Demonstrated leadership skills.

• Engineers in Training-EIT Certification preferred.

• Minimum of a 3.0 GPA strongly preferred.

• Involvement on campus or in the community preferred.

• Candidates must be legally authorized to work permanently (i.e., without time limitations, without restrictions or without need for work sponsorship) in the country where this position is located.

This job posting will remain open a minimum of 72 hours and on an ongoing basis until filled

EEO/Minorities/Females/Disabled/Veterans

Job Civil Engineering

Primary Location US-TX-Dallas

Schedule: Full-time

Travel: Yes, 10 % of the Time

Req ID: 244769

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