Transit Signals & Bus Priority Engineer

City of New York; New York (NY); On-site; USD 66,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

The City of New York’s Department of Transportation seeks an Assistant Civil Engineer to support the Signals Timing & Intersection Control Unit working on bus priority street configurations and transit improvements. You will analyze traffic data, prepare CAD drawings, and help ensure compliance with NYC DOT standards and ADA requirements.

The role emphasizes collaboration with planning and MTA partners, managing field checks, and producing engineering documents for review.

Qualifications

• A baccalaureate degree from an accredited college in civil engineering and one year of full-time satisfactory experience in civil engineering work; or
• A baccalaureate degree from an accredited college and a Master's degree from an accredited college in civil engineering.

Responsibilities

• Assist in developing geometric layouts, bus lanes, curbside regulations, intersection treatments, and transit priority street configurations.
• Conduct traffic studies, bus speed assessments, turning movement counts, and safety analyses to support design decisions.
• Prepare CAD drawings, concept plans, signing/striping layouts, and technical exhibits for internal review and external partners.
• Document existing conditions, verify measurements, assess constraints, and support feasibility evaluations for proposed bus priority treatments.
• Support analysis and implementation of Transit Signal Priority (TSP), queue jumps, and signal timing adjustments.
• Collaborate with planners, operations teams, borough engineers, MTA staff, utilities, and community stakeholders.
• Assist with shop drawing review, field checks, punch lists, and verification of installed bus priority elements.
• Maintain GIS layers, project databases, and engineering records related to bus lanes, stops, signals, and curb regulations.
• Ensure designs meet ADA standards, MUTCD requirements, NYC Street Design Guidelines, and Vision Zero principles.

Skills

Bus priority projects

Transit operations

Curbside management

Complete Streets

Vision Zero

Signal timing

Traffic modeling tools

Multimodal design standards

Driver's license

Education

Bachelor's degree in civil engineering

Master's degree in civil engineering

Job description

The City of New York’s Department of Transportation seeks an Assistant Civil Engineer to support the Signals Timing & Intersection Control Unit working on bus priority street configurations and transit improvements. You will analyze traffic data, prepare CAD drawings, and help ensure compliance with NYC DOT standards and ADA requirements.

The role emphasizes collaboration with planning and MTA partners, managing field checks, and producing engineering documents for review.