Senior Traffic Engineer
RETTEW
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Job summary
RETTEW is seeking a Senior Traffic Engineer | Technical Lead to guide the technical delivery of traffic engineering services within our Transportation team. The role emphasizes leadership, client relations, and complex analyses while expanding project impact across teams.
You will mentor staff, establish technical approaches, and ensure deliverables meet standards. Hybrid work in PA with opportunities across multiple locations.
Qualifications
- BS in Civil Engineering or related field required.
- Active PE license in Pennsylvania or in another state with PA licensure ability.
- Minimum eight years of progressive traffic engineering experience.
- Experience leading technical delivery or review of traffic work.
- Proficiency with traffic operations, impact studies, signal/ corridor analyses, safety, or access projects.
- Experience using traffic analysis tools such as Synchro/SimTraffic, HCS, or VISSIM.
- Ability to produce and review calculations, models, and reports.
- Strong knowledge of applicable standards and client requirements.
- Excellent written and verbal communication; ability to lead and coach teams.
Responsibilities
- Lead and review traffic engineering analyses, studies, and designs.
- Mentor staff and guide technical approaches and quality standards.
- Collaborate with project managers, clients, and agencies throughout delivery.
- Develop practical, data-informed recommendations to improve operations and safety.
- Prepare calculations, models, plans, reports, and technical deliverables.
- Ensure work is accurate, constructible, and compliant with standards.
- Coordinate with PennDOT, municipalities, and MPOs on projects.
- Contribute to proposals, templates, and quality-control practices.
- Stay current with evolving traffic engineering tools and practices.
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Job description
Description
Workplace Designation: Hybrid
Locations: Pittsburgh, Lancaster, Mechanicsburg, or Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania
This position combines regular in-office collaboration with remote-work flexibility, focused technical work, multidisciplinary project coordination, and occasional field, client, or agency activities.
As a Senior Traffic Engineer | Technical Lead, you will guide the technical delivery of traffic engineering assignments while helping project teams develop practical, data-informed solutions.
You will establish technical approaches, perform and oversee complex analyses, review project deliverables, resolve technical challenges, and help ensure work meets applicable standards and client expectations. You will collaborate closely with Project Managers, engineers, designers, clients, agencies, and other disciplines throughout project delivery.
You will also help strengthen RETTEW’s traffic engineering capabilities by mentoring staff, sharing technical knowledge, improving processes, and contributing to proposals and strategic pursuits.
- Serve as a Technical Lead on traffic engineering projects, providing technical direction, oversight, and quality control.
- Establish appropriate methodologies for complex traffic engineering assignments and guide project teams through execution.
- Lead and review traffic impact studies, operational analyses, signal warrant analyses, traffic signal designs, corridor studies, safety evaluations, and access management assignments.
- Evaluate intersection, corridor, and network performance using accepted traffic engineering principles and professional analysis tools.
- Develop practical recommendations for improving traffic operations, mobility, access, and safety.
- Prepare and review calculations, models, plans, specifications, technical reports, and other project deliverables.
- Confirm that technical work is accurate, consistent, constructible, and compliant with applicable standards and project requirements.
- Interpret and apply applicable PennDOT, Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission, MUTCD, AASHTO, municipal, and other agency standards and requirements.
- Coordinate with PennDOT, municipalities, metropolitan planning organizations, clients, and other reviewing agencies.
- Collaborate with Project Managers to align technical scope, schedule, budget, staffing, and deliverable expectations.
- Advise clients and internal teams on traffic operations, safety, permitting, design, and project-delivery considerations.
- Identify complex technical or project-delivery challenges and guide teams toward practical solutions.
- Mentor engineers and designers through technical coaching, project assignments, and constructive review.
- Help develop and maintain technical standards, tools, templates, and quality-control practices.
- Support project scopes, technical approaches, level-of-effort estimates, proposals, and selection interviews.
- Contribute technical insight to client relationships, strategic pursuits, and the continued growth of RETTEW’s traffic engineering services.
- Stay current with evolving traffic engineering standards, tools, technologies, and industry practices.
- Bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering or a related engineering discipline.
- Active Professional Engineer license in Pennsylvania, or an active PE license in another state with the ability to obtain Pennsylvania licensure.
- At least eight years of progressive professional experience in traffic engineering.
- Demonstrated experience leading the technical delivery or review of traffic engineering work.
- Professional experience with traffic operations, traffic impact, signal, corridor, safety, access, or related traffic engineering assignments.
- Professional experience using traffic analysis or simulation software such as Synchro/SimTraffic, HCS, VISSIM, or comparable tools.
- Experience preparing and reviewing engineering calculations, analyses, models, plans, reports, specifications, or other technical deliverables.
- Working knowledge of applicable traffic engineering standards and agency requirements.
- Ability to establish technical approaches, evaluate complex information, and exercise sound engineering judgment.
- Ability to communicate technical information clearly to clients, agencies, Project Managers, and technical staff.
- Experience providing technical direction, coaching, or review to other professionals.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Ability to collaborate effectively across multidisciplinary project teams.
- Ability to manage competing assignments, priorities, and deadlines.
Candidates do not need experience in every area listed below. Traffic engineers often develop deeper expertise in particular services, project types, or client markets, and we value both specialized experience and broad technical exposure.
- Professional Traffic Operations Engineer certification.
- PennDOT or Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission project experience.
- PennDOT ECMS and Pennsylvania project-delivery processes.
- Traffic impact studies or traffic impact analyses.
- Traffic operations and capacity analysis.
- Traffic signal warrant analysis.
- Traffic signal design.
- Intersection improvement projects.
- Corridor or network-level studies.
- Traffic safety studies.
- Access management.
- Roundabout analysis or design.
- Traffic data collection and evaluation.
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