Senior Traffic Management Lead for Urban Projects

SYSTRA UK & Ireland; Dublin; On-site; EUR 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

SYSTRA UK & Ireland is recruiting a Senior Traffic Management Coordinator in Ireland to ensure safe, efficient traffic management across schemes and to lead coordination with internal and external stakeholders. The role requires overseeing permits, design inputs, and interfaces across design and build contracts to minimise congestion and improve safety.

Candidates should bring extensive live-urban traffic management experience, professional qualifications, and familiarity with Chapter 8, VISSIM,

Qualifications

• Extensive traffic management experience in live urban environments.
• Membership of a relevant professional institution.
• Professionally qualified or working towards Chartered Engineer status.
• Formal training / certification in Chapter 8 is desirable
• Possess a full, clean driving license.
• Managing major traffic schemes, including traffic signal managed schemes, from initiation to handover for implementation, and designing schemes to minimise their impact on the surrounding traffic network.
• Analysing traffic survey data.
• Traffic Management Orders and procedures.
• Interpreting traffic signal modelling reports and data to inform and steer project design.
• Road safety, traffic incident management, traffic control and safety procedures.
• ITS system and design principles, standards, guidelines, processes, operations, and policy.
• Signal timing optimisation within traffic controllers, Adaptive Signal Control, Transit Signal Priority, and other traffic signal technology.
• Assessing traffic simulation software, such as VISSIM reports.
• Working knowledge of Irish health and safety regulations.
• Driving best practice in technical activities, processes, policies and standards.
• Data collection techniques and analysis are sufficient to gather, interpret and prepare reports.
• Dealing with a range of stakeholders at all levels across the organisation influencing the improvement of processes and providing guidance to support project delivery and reporting; and
• Knowledge of quality management and process improvement practices and systems is desirable, preferably within the construction sector.

Responsibilities

• Carry out a review of the traffic management plan for each Scheme to be developed by the Design and Build Contractors which will cover the requirements for each of the Design and Build Contracts in relation to traffic management during the delivery, ensuring that the plans covers coordination with key internal and external stakeholders.
• Ensure the relevant permits are in place to facilitate the Contractors Traffic Management Design once approved by the NEC4 PM;
• Oversee all traffic management design inputs input across the project assuring that they are designed in accordance with codes of practice, relevant standards and best international practice;
• Oversee the drafting of the interface management requirements related to Traffic Management for each of the Design and Build Contracts and to input into the procurement documents;
• Manage complex traffic engineering/safety and traffic planning studies and develop designs to support the traffic management for CBCIW, also act as a lead traffic designer;
• Ensure traffic management arrangements are implemented in line with the approved Traffic Management Plans;
• Ensure coordination across Schemes in relation to traffic management arrangements, ensuring that the approaches to traffic management plans taken by each of the Design and Build Contracts are aligned to eliminate the potential for conflicts;
• Ensure learnings in relation to traffic management is disseminated across Schemes;

Skills

Traffic management

Professional membership

Chartered Engineer

Chapter 8 training

Driving license

Traffic safety

Stakeholder management

Traffic modelling

Regulatory knowledge

Tools

VISSIM

Job description

SYSTRA UK & Ireland is recruiting a Senior Traffic Management Coordinator in Ireland to ensure safe, efficient traffic management across schemes and to lead coordination with internal and external stakeholders. The role requires overseeing permits, design inputs, and interfaces across design and build contracts to minimise congestion and improve safety.

Candidates should bring extensive live-urban traffic management experience, professional qualifications, and familiarity with Chapter 8, VISSIM,