Engineering Manager-Traffic

Chesapeake, VA

Job Description

Would you like to work with the City that CARES? 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.

Are you passionate about shaping the future of transportation in the City of Chesapeake? Do you enjoy taking on complex challenges in the design and construction of a variety of transportation related infrastructure? Then the City of Chesapeake Public Works Department wants you to join our team of transportation professionals. The ideal candidate will provide proven leadership to the Traffic Engineering & Operations Division, including operation of the City's Traffic Management Center and the City's 200+ traffic signals.

Other duties include, but are not limited to:
  • 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.

The City of Chesapeake offers an exceptional range of benefits. Please browse our Benefits Brochure, for a full list of benefits and employee perks. PDN-a07e4aab-4878-40ae-bbf1-879a3c2eb4ad
Would you like to work with the City that CARES? 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.

Are you passionate about shaping the future of transportation in the City of Chesapeake? Do you enjoy taking on complex challenges in the design and construction of a variety of transportation related infrastructure? Then the City of Chesapeake Public Works Department wants you to join our team of transportation professionals. The ideal candidate will provide proven leadership to the Traffic Engineering & Operations Division, including operation of the City's Traffic Management Center and the City's 200+ traffic signals.

Other duties include, but are not limited to:
  • 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.

The City of Chesapeake offers an exceptional range of benefits. Please browse our Benefits Brochure, for a full list of benefits and employee perks. PDN-a07e4aab-4878-40ae-bbf1-879a3c2eb4ad

About City of Chesapeake

Chesapeake, Virginia is a vibrant community that enjoys the best of two worlds, one of urban variety, culture, and excitement, and another of rural landscapes and relaxed living. 

Located 20 minutes from the oceanfront, 15 minutes from downtown Norfolk, and 45 minutes from Colonial Williamsburg and the Outer Banks of North Carolina, Chesapeake is the perfect place in which to live, work, and raise a family. 

Home to beautiful parks, lakes, and rivers, Chesapeake has more miles of deepwater canals (part of the Intracoastal Waterway) than any other city in the country! 

The City of Chesapeake was formed through the merger of the City of South Norfolk and Norfolk County in 1963. It’s a community of communities, with each having its own distinctive history. 

Over the last decade, many national and international companies have taken advantage of the City’s ports, atmosphere, and highly qualified labor market by relocating to Chesapeake. 

Chesapeake’s neighborhoods offer a variety of comfortable housing alternatives, from apartments and town homes, to single-family residences and executive homes. The City is consistently ranked by the FBI as one of the safest U.S. cities (with populations over 150,000), which lends to the safe, community atmosphere that residents enjoy.

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