Assistant Civil Engineer - Traffic (Kansas City or Springdale, AR)

Burns & McDonnell; Kansas City (MO); On-site; USD 60,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

Burns & McDonnell's Kansas City and/or NW Arkansas office is seeking an ambitious Assistant Civil / Traffic Engineer to join our transportation planning team. You will work under a PE/PTOE to assist project teams in creating world class designs for public and private clients.

The role covers feasibility, design, and construction phases, delivering arterial studies, intersection designs, ITS, and highway analyses. Strong communication and software skills are essential for success.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering from an ABET-accredited program.
• Master’s degree in transportation/traffic engineering preferred.
• Prior internship or related consulting experience preferred.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Proficient with Microsoft Office and standard civil engineering tools.
• Basic AutoCAD, MicroStation, BIM (Revit), Civil 3D and traffic software knowledge.

Responsibilities

• Assist multidisciplinary project teams to design transportation projects.
• Develop traffic control plans including signing, striping, lighting, signals.
• Prepare traffic operations studies, microsimulation, ITS plans.
• Create traffic phasing for control plans and road design.
• Collaborate with clients, contractors, and vendors to ensure success.
• Adhere to company policies and standards and continually learn.
• Support design through the project lifecycle from feasibility to construction.

Skills

Communication skills

Analytical thinking

Microsoft Office

AutoCAD

MicroStation

OpenRoads

Synchro

PTV Vissim

Education

Bachelor's in Civil Engineering

Master's in transportation/traffic engineering

Tools

AutoCAD

MicroStation

HCS

Synchro

PTV Vissim

OpenRoads

Job description

Description

Burns & McDonnell’s Kansas City and/or NW Arkansas office is looking for an ambitious and talented Assistant Civil / Traffic Engineer to join our growing transportation planning team.

As an Assistant Civil / 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 to create world class designs for public and private clients on a variety of transportation and development projects.

Our civil / traffic engineers assist our transportation teams through each phase of the project development lifecycle (Feasibility, Schematic & Environmental, Design, and Construction). Projects range in type and scale from City/County arterial studies, innovative intersection designs and traffic impact assessments to billion dollar multi-level freeway designs, intelligent transportation system architecture, and traffic management planning.

What You’ll Do:

• Working with a close-knit team of multi-discipline professionals to ensure project success.

• Corresponding and/or meeting with clients, contractors, and vendors.

• Designing traffic control infrastructure (such as signing, striping, lighting, traffic signal, and Intelligent Transportation System plans).

• Developing traffic operations and safety studies, microsimulation traffic models, traffic impact analyses, and highway capacity analyses.

• Developing traffic phasing for traffic control plans.

• Developing skills in software such as MicroStation, AutoCAD, ArcGIS, HCS, Synchro, PTV Vissim, & OpenRoads.

• Performs other duties as assigned.

• Comply with all policies and standards.

Qualifications

• A bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering or a related field from a recognized, accredited program. ABET accreditation strongly preferred.

• Master's degree in transportation or traffic engineering preferred.

• Prior internship and/or related consulting experience preferred.

• Basic knowledge in standard civil engineering techniques, principles and procedures.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

• Ability to work methodically and analytically in a quantitative problem-solving environment and demonstrated criticalthinking skills.

• Proficient computer skills (e.g. Microsoft Office Suite).

• Basic computer skills (e.g. AutoCAD, MicroStation, BIM (Revit), Civil 3D, HCS, Synchro, PTV Vissim), and civil analysisprograms.

• Strong attention to detail, facilitation, team building, collaboration, organization and problem-solving skills.

• Demonstrated leadership skills.

• Engineers in Training-EIT Certification strongly preferred.

• Minimum of a 3.0 GPA strongly preferred.

• Involvement on campus or in the community preferred.

• Candidates must be legally authorized to work permanently (i.e., without time limitations, without restrictions or withoutneed for work sponsorship) in the country where this position is located.

This job posting will remain open a minimum of 72 hours and on an ongoing basis until filled.

EEO/Disabled/Veterans

Job Civil Engineering

Primary Location US-MO-Kansas City

Other Locations US-AR-Springdale

Schedule: Full-time

Travel: Yes, 10 % of the Time

Req ID: 264716

Job Hire Type New Grad #LI-JF #TRN