Entry-Level Transportation Engineer: Freight & People Mobility

Whitman,-Requardt-; Tampa (FL); On-site; USD 70,000 - 125,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Leave accrual

Paid holidays

Life Insurance

Disability insurance

Flexible spending accounts

401(k) Retirement Plan

Tuition Reimbursement

Employee Assistance Program

Parental leave

Maternity leave

Job summary

Whitman, Requardt & Associates, LLP in Tampa, FL seeks an Entry Level People and Freight Transportation Engineer to support transportation systems management, freight mobility, and multimodal planning. The role emphasizes data-driven analysis, origin-destination studies, and traffic forecasting across multiple transport modes.

You will work with senior staff on freight modeling, GIS visuals, and client presentations, contributing to statewide and regional planning projects while developing

Qualifications

• Master's degree in Civil Engineering, Transportation Engineering, Industrial Engineering, or related field from an ABET accredited program.
• 0 – 4 years of relevant experience.
• Strong analytical and quantitative problem-solving skills.
• Familiarity with programming or scripting languages such as Python or R for data processing and analytics.
• Coursework or experience planning for and evaluating multimodal transportation systems for people and freight including street, highway, rail, port, airport, pipeline, and intermodal freight operations.
• Coursework or experience regarding the application of transportation planning, traffic engineering, and travel demand modeling principles.
• Ability to effectively communicate technical information, both verbally and in writing.
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively within multidisciplinary teams.
• Ability to manage multiple assignments and meet project deadlines.

Responsibilities

• Support transportation systems management and operations, advanced technology, traffic operations, transportation planning, and freight mobility projects through the use of a combination of tools: travel demand modeling, traffic operations modeling, systems engineering, stakeholder outreach and engagement, advanced data analytics.
• Conduct freight transportation planning studies to support multimodal transportation, freight mobility, supply chain, and logistics planning initiatives.
• Analyze multimodal mobility using large and emerging transportation datasets to identify trends, bottlenecks, and opportunities for improving system performance.
• Develop traffic forecasts, origin-destination analyses, commodity flow assessments, truck parking evaluations, and transportation network performance measures.
• Support freight modeling and analytics, including logistics optimization, network analysis, and scenario evaluation.
• Assist in developing technical reports, public-facing transportation plans, data visualizations, GIS products, and presentations for clients and stakeholders.
• Coordinate with multidisciplinary teams to deliver freight planning, transportation planning, travel demand modeling, traffic operations, and mobility projects.
• Project assignments may include statewide, regional, corridor, port, airport, rail, intermodal, and last-mile freight modeling and planning studies.
• Responsibilities may include processing and integrating large multimodal datasets, developing decision-support tools, conducting statistical analyses, and supporting freight, transportation modeling, and ITS planning initiatives.
• Analysis may include all modes of travel for people and goods (street, highway, air, rail, seaport, and emerging modes such as drone delivery) for urban, suburban, and rural environments.

Skills

Analytical thinking

Quantitative problem-solving

Python or R familiarity

Effective communication

Independent and teamwork

Education

Master's degree in Civil Engineering/Transportation/Industrial Engineering (ABET accredited)

Tools

VISUM

VISSIM

ArcGIS Pro

QGIS

SQL/Database basics

Job description

Whitman, Requardt & Associates, LLP in Tampa, FL seeks an Entry Level People and Freight Transportation Engineer to support transportation systems management, freight mobility, and multimodal planning. The role emphasizes data-driven analysis, origin-destination studies, and traffic forecasting across multiple transport modes.

You will work with senior staff on freight modeling, GIS visuals, and client presentations, contributing to statewide and regional planning projects while developing