Traffic Engineer

Company: Kimley-Horn
Location: Las Vegas
Posted on: May 26, 2023

Job Description:

Overview
At Kimley-Horn, one of the nation's premier planning and design consultants, our professionals are experts in many disciplines yet share one passion: making our clients successful. Looking for a terrific place to grow your career? Ranked consistently as one of Fortune Magazine's "100 Best Companies to Work For," Kimley-Horn and Associates, Inc. prides itself on hiring high-achieving, dedicated, and reliable professionals. We are looking for a motivated Traffic Engineer to join our Transportation Planning and Traffic Operations (TPTO) team in our Las Vegas, NV office.
Responsibilities
The ideal person will be interested in performing a variety of tasks associated with Road Safety for our Transportation team, including the following:

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  Manage large, complex, and multi-disciplinary transportation planning tasks.
  
  
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  Mentor and develop staff, provides leadership in an environment that encourages teamwork, initiative, and growth.
  
  
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  Lead project outreach activities including guiding the direction of stakeholder and public engagement, giving presentations, meeting with stakeholders, community members, businesses, and organizations to explain the project scope, impacts, benefits, mitigations, etc.
  
  
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  Collaborate with agencies and municipal clients on complex planning and project delivery challenges.
  
  
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  Conduct public presentations including stakeholder meetings, community meetings, board meetings, and city council meetings.
  
  
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  Perform project management duties such as managing large tasks and projects, performing research, report writing, leading stakeholder or public involvement meetings and maintaining client relations in support of road safety projects.
  
  
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  Develop schedules, review invoices, manage progress reports, prepare scopes, and track budgets.
  
  
  Qualifications
  
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    Bachelor's Degree in a related field (Master's preferred)
    
    
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    4+ years of transportation design and/or planning experience
    
    
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    AICP accreditation, or P.E. license or the ability to obtain one within 6-months
    
    
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    Experience with evaluating causal issues related to fatal and serious injury crashes and the selection and implementation of safety countermeasures for Engineers, Law Enforcement, Educators, and Emergency Response
    
    
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    A strong passion for working on innovative projects that improve traffic safety in the community
    
    
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    Strong knowledge of planning principles related to transportation
    
    
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    Demonstrated project management experience
    
    
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    Experience in transportation planning project work such as safety analysis, complete streets, pedestrian and bicycle planning
    
    
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    Strong organizational skills
    
    
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    Excellent written and oral communication skills
    
    
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    Experience with stakeholder outreach, community engagement, planning annual events/conferences, coordinating logistics for stakeholder meetings, providing presentations to public officials and communication with a variety of individuals
    
    
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    Outgoing, self-motivated team player
    
    
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    Ability to work with and balance priorities among multiple projects and project managers
    
    
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    Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities
    Location : Location US-NV-Las Vegas
    ID 2022-7774
    Education Bachelor's Degree
    Employee Type Regular
    Discipline/Focus Transportation/TPTO

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