Senior Traffic Engineer Technical Lead

The Opportunity

RETTEW is seeking a Senior Traffic Engineer Technical Lead to join our Transportation team and help guide the technical delivery and continued growth of our traffic engineering services.

This opportunity is designed for an experienced traffic engineer who wants to remain actively involved in complex technical work while expanding their influence across projects teams and client relationships.

You will lead and review traffic engineering analyses studies designs and technical deliverables while serving as a trusted resource for clients project teams and developing professionals. You will also help establish technical approaches strengthen quality standards mentor staff and solve complex transportation challenges.

Traffic engineering professionals can develop expertise across different types of projects and services. You do not need to have done everything. We are looking for strong traffic engineering fundamentals Pennsylvania project experience professional analysis and modeling experience sound technical judgment and demonstrated ability to guide the work of others.

Work Environment

Workplace Designation: Hybrid

Locations: Pittsburgh Lancaster Mechanicsburg or Lehigh Valley Pennsylvania

This position combines regular in-office collaboration with remote-work flexibility focused technical work multidisciplinary project coordination and occasional field client or agency activities.

What Youll Do

As a Senior Traffic Engineer Technical Lead you will guide the technical delivery of traffic engineering assignments while helping project teams develop practical data-informed solutions.

You will establish technical approaches perform and oversee complex analyses review project deliverables resolve technical challenges and help ensure work meets applicable standards and client expectations. You will collaborate closely with Project Managers engineers designers clients agencies and other disciplines throughout project delivery.

You will also help strengthen RETTEWs traffic engineering capabilities by mentoring staff sharing technical knowledge improving processes and contributing to proposals and strategic pursuits.

• Serve as a Technical Lead on traffic engineering projects providing technical direction oversight and quality control.
• Establish appropriate methodologies for complex traffic engineering assignments and guide project teams through execution.
• Lead and review traffic impact studies operational analyses signal warrant analyses traffic signal designs corridor studies safety evaluations and access management assignments.
• Evaluate intersection corridor and network performance using accepted traffic engineering principles and professional analysis tools.
• Develop practical recommendations for improving traffic operations mobility access and safety.
• Prepare and review calculations models plans specifications technical reports and other project deliverables.
• Confirm that technical work is accurate consistent constructible and compliant with applicable standards and project requirements.
• Interpret and apply applicable PennDOT Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission MUTCD AASHTO municipal and other agency standards and requirements.
• Coordinate with PennDOT municipalities metropolitan planning organizations clients and other reviewing agencies.
• Collaborate with Project Managers to align technical scope schedule budget staffing and deliverable expectations.
• Advise clients and internal teams on traffic operations safety permitting design and project-delivery considerations.
• Identify complex technical or project-delivery challenges and guide teams toward practical solutions.
• Mentor engineers and designers through technical coaching project assignments and constructive review.
• Help develop and maintain technical standards tools templates and quality-control practices.
• Support project scopes technical approaches level-of-effort estimates proposals and selection interviews.
• Contribute technical insight to client relationships strategic pursuits and the continued growth of RETTEWs traffic engineering services.
• Stay current with evolving traffic engineering standards tools technologies and industry practices.

What Were Looking For

Required

• Bachelors degree in Civil Engineering or a related engineering discipline.
• Active Professional Engineer license in Pennsylvania or an active PE license in another state with the ability to obtain Pennsylvania licensure.
• At least eight years of progressive professional experience in traffic engineering.
• Demonstrated experience leading the technical delivery or review of traffic engineering work.
• Professional experience with traffic operations traffic impact signal corridor safety access or related traffic engineering assignments.
• Professional experience using traffic analysis or simulation software such as Synchro/SimTraffic HCS VISSIM or comparable tools.
• Experience preparing and reviewing engineering calculations analyses models plans reports specifications or other technical deliverables.
• Working knowledge of applicable traffic engineering standards and agency requirements.
• Ability to establish technical approaches evaluate complex information and exercise sound engineering judgment.
• Ability to communicate technical information clearly to clients agencies Project Managers and technical staff.
• Experience providing technical direction coaching or review to other professionals.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to collaborate effectively across multidisciplinary project teams.
• Ability to manage competing assignments priorities and deadlines.

Additional Experience We Value

Candidates do not need experience in every area listed below. Traffic engineers often develop deeper expertise in particular services project types or client markets and we value both specialized experience and broad technical exposure.

• Professional Traffic Operations Engineer certification.
• PennDOT or Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission project experience.
• PennDOT ECMS and Pennsylvania project-delivery processes.
• Traffic impact studies or traffic impact analyses.
• Traffic operations and capacity analysis.
• Traffic signal warrant analysis.
• Traffic signal design.
• Intersection improvement projects.
• Corridor or network-level studies.
• Traffic safety studies.
• Access management.
• Roundabout analysis or design.
• Traffic data collection and evaluation.
• Maintenance and protection of traffic.
• Synchro/SimTraffic HCS VISSIM SIDRA Highway Safety Software or other traffic-analysis platforms.
• OpenRoads Designer or MicroStation.
• Coordination with municipalities metropolitan planning organizations utilities or other project stakeholders.
• Formal mentoring coaching supervision or staff-development responsibilities.
• Development of project scopes schedules budgets or level-of-effort estimates.
• Proposal development and selection interviews.
• Client relationship management or business-development support.
• Development of technical standards templates tools or quality-control processes.

What This Opportunity Offers

At RETTEW you will have the opportunity to remain closely connected to technical work while influencing how traffic engineering services are delivered across projects and teams.

Youll have opportunities to:

• Lead complex traffic engineering assignments and help establish project-specific technical approaches.
• Influence technical standards tools processes and quality practices.
• Serve as a trusted technical resource for clients agencies Project Managers and internal teams.
• Work across intersection corridor safety signal access and network-level assignments.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary transportation and infrastructure professionals.
• Help solve complex transportation challenges with practical data-informed solutions.
• Mentor engineers and designers and help strengthen the technical capabilities of the team.
• Expand your influence across project delivery client relationships and practice growth.
• Contribute to proposals strategic pursuits and the continued development of RETTEWs traffic engineering services.
• Continue developing as a senior technical leader without having to move away from meaningful engineering work.
• Share in RETTEWs long-term success through our Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP).

About RETTEW

RETTEW is a 100% employee-owned engineering and consulting firm providing multidisciplinary services across transportation land development water and wastewater environmental and geotechnology energy surveying and facilities and construction.

Our culture is grounded in our core values Act Like an Owner Value Relationships and Exemplify Excellence. Our employee-owners collaborate across disciplines to solve complex challenges deliver meaningful results for clients and build rewarding careers.

RETTEW offers an Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) comprehensive medical dental and vision benefits retirement savings options paid time off professional development resources licensure support and opportunities for continued technical and career growth.

RETTEW is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion sex (including pregnancy sexual orientation or gender identity) national origin age disability veteran status genetic information or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

If you are an individual with a disability and require a reasonable accommodation to complete any part of the application process please contact us at to request assistance.

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