Traffic Technician

City of Billings; Billings (MT); On-site; USD 56,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

The City of Billings is seeking a Traffic Technician to perform a range of transportation planning tasks, including counts, studies, parking analyses, and data-driven recommendations. You will collaborate with staff, other agencies, and the public to support multimodal transportation goals.

Responsibilities include field and office work, processing data for reports, maintaining transportation databases and dashboards, and providing technical support to engineering and planning staff.

Qualifications

• Specialized training beyond high school that can be obtained in one year or less and a total of one or more years of combined education and experience, or equivalent.
• A valid Montana driver's license or one must be obtained within thirty (30) days of employment.
• Must have strong interpersonal skills.
• Must be able to pass a pre-employment drug test.

Responsibilities

• Conduct field traffic studies including manual counts, turning movement counts, speed studies, pedestrian gap studies, and other analyses.
• Deploy and retrieve automated counters for vehicular, bicycle, and pedestrian counts.
• Conduct signal timing and sight distance analyses; prepare calculations.
• Assist in data collection and analysis for parking studies and neighborhood traffic control.
• Prepare reports and recommendations for staff and the public.

Skills

Interpersonal skills

Drug test required

Education

High school + specialized training (1 year or less)

Tools

Microsoft Office

Data dashboards

Job description

The City of Billings is seeking a Traffic Technician to:

• Perform a variety of technical transportation planning related tasks including office and field work relating to required traffic and non-motorized counts, various traffic studies, parking studies, accident record analysis, drone photography, and multimodal use studies;
• Submit recommendations to city staff, school district personnel, and the public based on collected data;
• Establish and maintain effective working relations with other government agencies, school districts, co-workers, and the public; and
• Provide assistance to professional level engineering and planning staff.

Salary Range: $55,868.800 - $64,588.576 per year. Salary reflects Step 1 and Step 4 of a 7-step pay scale. Salary at hiring will be dependent upon the applicant's education, experience, and training.
Work Schedule: Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Essential Duties And Responsibilities

• Conduct and participate in field traffic studies including manual traffic counts, turning movement counts, speed studies, pedestrian gap studies, intersection delay studies, trail and bike lane usage counts, classification studies, and origin-destination studies.
• Deploy, relocate and retrieve automated traffic counters for vehicular, bicycle, and pedestrian volume counts.
• Conduct signal, stop and yield warrant analyses; intersection sight distance analyses; prepare stopping sight distance calculations.
• Perform traffic signal timing calculations for individual signals and signal systems; collect and analyze travel time data to evaluate corridor timing plans.
• Collect and analyze data for special parking studies, including bicycle parking.
• Collect and analyze data regarding neighborhood traffic control.
• Maintain accident report files; compile accident rates, severity ratios, and other statistics; prepare accident diagrams.
• Prepare recommendations for City staff, school district personnel, and the public regarding a variety of traffic and pedestrian related issues.
• Contribute to a team environment for the City and County in evaluating, analyzing and making determinations for transportation improvements across the transportation system.
• Respond to requests for traffic data and information from the public, outside agencies, developers, contractors and others as required.
• Research records, maps and other information to obtain data pertaining to assigned projects.
• Prepare reports and studies following accepted practices and standards.
• Ability to collect, manage and maintain web-based maps, dashboards, data viewers, and other transportation information published on the City website.
• Provide technical support for department's transportation engineering and transportation planning functions.
• Maintain accurate files, records and databases of all traffic and transportation planning data cataloged by the Department.
• Maintain equipment inventory.
• Provide Information to citizen boards as required.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Required Qualifications And Skills

• Specialized training beyond high school that can be obtained in one year or less and a total of one or more years of combined education and experience, or equivalent.
• A valid Montana driver's license or one must be obtained within thirty (30) days of employment.
• Must have strong interpersonal skills.
• Must be able to pass a pre-employment drug test.

Preferred Qualifications And Skills

• Experience with city government and knowledge of department or function operations is preferred.
• Proficiency in computers and Microsoft Office is desirable.
• Working knowledge to manage and maintain transportation-related databases through development of interactive maps, dashboards, and other public-facing transportation information.

Equal Opportunity Employer.