Burns & McDonnell • Springdale, AR 72766
Job #2689809672
Description
Burns & McDonnell's Northwest Arkansas 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?mean 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?and 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 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 across the public and private sectors.
In this role you will be exposed to the full spectrum of traffic operations, traffic safety, and transportation projects including traffic forecasting and modeling, intersection and signal design, safety studies, ADA and trail design, and planning studies. You will have the opportunity to develop safe, efficient, and reliable transportation systems that will serve all modes of travel within our communities and the country for years to come. To be successful you will need to be capable and interested in learning a variety of new skills through both mentorship and independent review of multiple documents from national best practices to client-specific standards. You will have to think critically to apply those standards to the given project to develop exceptional quality construction plans and effectively communicate the methods and results through presentations, memos, and reports.
Qualifications
Bachelor's degree in civil engineering or related degree from an ABET accredited program and 3 years of civil engineering experience, consulting preferred.
Bachelor's degree in civil or related engineering technology from an ABET accredited program and successful completion of Fundamentals of Engineering (FE) exam and 3 years of civil engineering experience, consulting preferred.
Master's degree in civil engineering and 2 years of civil engineering experience, consulting preferred.
Critical Thinking: Having a critical eye for all data sets provided to notice inconsistencies or issues that may affect your analysis; performing quick hand calculations to verify the reasonableness of computer program outputs; asking questions when you perceive inconsistencies in the process or results; and identifying conflicts between project-specific guidelines and industry best practices.
Traffic modeling: Familiarity with HCM and MUTCD. Experience with HCS, Synchro, Vissim, Vistro or Sidra a plus.
Experience with construction plan development and use of MicroStation, AutoCAD and/or ArcGIS.
Data analysis: The ability to identify trends, forecast data, and identify biases in the data sets. Proficiency in excel (xlookup, countif, creating graphs, and basic regression).
Experience with traffic safety and crash history analysis a plus.
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-AR-Springdale
Schedule: Full-time
Travel: Yes, 10 % of the Time
Req ID: 241527
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