Senior Traffic Engineer

Duties & Responsibilities

This role requires leading and contributing to a variety of traffic engineering and transport planning studies, temporary traffic management plans, transport planning support for major Highway Design Work projects and large scale multi-modal transport master plan assessments, traffic impact studies or multi-disciplinary planning projects in the public and private sectors. This would involve the following responsibilities:

• Technical delivery and management of small, medium and large-scale transport planning and modelling assignments with minimal supervision;
• Working on development of Temporary Traffic Management Plans;
• Check drawings, calculations or output from analytical programs 
• Working closely with Project Managers and other Atkins departmental staff to ensure timely completion of the necessary analysis, reports and plans as assigned; 
• Preparing high-quality written reports and technical analyses with the ability to present outcomes to concerned parties; 
• Advising the client and stakeholders on transportation matters;
• Representing the Transportation Team whilst interacting internal client, as well as external stakeholders / statutory authorities;
• Ensuring deliverables adhere to prevailing QA/QS and document management protocols; and
• Application of technical competencies, as well as sharing these with junior staff. 

• Must have a minimum of degree in transportation engineering and over ten years related professional work experience after university graduation; 
• Experience in delivering traffic engineering and transportation projects within a multi-disciplinary technical environment; 
• Competency in a range of transportation planning skills including temporary traffic management plans development, development planning principles, access control, functional planning, public transport issues, pedestrian and non-motorised transportation issues, and transport demand theory; 
• Project experience in the Middle East and familiarity with local trends and traffic engineering practices and standards;  
• Understanding of the outputs from transport modelling software such as VISUM, VISSIM, SIDRA, SYNCHRO, HCM.;
• Experience with transport assessment, preliminary highway design and a good appreciation of transport appraisal and modelling techniques; 
• Experience in providing the appropriate junction analysis to assist traffic impact assessments; 
• Experience in developing temporary traffic management and detour plans;
• Excellent communication in written and spoken English; 
• Experienced in project/financial management; 
• Experience in giving technical presentations to diverse and non-technical audiences; 
• Advanced skills and competence with Microsoft Office software including Excel, Word and PowerPoint; 
• Familiarity with electronic document management and quality assurance systems; 
• Project management and commercial competence; 
• Must be willing to travel internationally.