Transportation/Traffic Engineer

Job Locations

US-DC-Washington | US-VA-Tysons Corner

Overview

About Us

WE ARE VHB-a passionate team of engineers, scientists, planners, and designers tackling exciting challenges in the transportation, real estate, institutional, applied technology, and energy industries-serving a range of public- and private-sector clients. At VHB, we are dedicated to improving mobility, enhancing communities, and balancing development and infrastructure needs with environmental stewardship.

We are creative problem-solvers
• We work hard, and we give back


• We like our colleagues, and we love Mondays (really)


• We are diverse, caring, welcoming, and fun!

VHB has consistently been rated one of the top AEC firms to work for across our 30+ offices on the East Coast.We're growing, and we hope you'll join us!

About the Position

Transportation/Traffic Engineer | Washington, DC or Tysons, VA

Our primary clients are the DDOT, VDOT and various local and county governments. Our projects include a wide variety of small to large infrastructure projects including sidewalks, trails, intersections, arterial roadways, urban roadways, interstates and interchanges; traffic signal design and timing; and traffic and transportation policy development and research. This position includes working on a diverse set of transportation design, operations, and/or policy projects throughout this expanding region.

Under direct supervision of a Senior Transportation Engineer, responsibilities include:

Responsibilities

• Work within a team of professionals in developing transportation design and planning solutions for a multitude of transportation projects


• Developing traffic signal designs in MicroStation


• Traffic signal timing plan development


• Researching best practices for traffic and transportation policy


• Highway design, drainage design and traffic control development


• Preliminary and Final Design Plan development


• Performs quantity take-off in support of construction cost estimates

Skills and Abilities

• Excellent verbal, written and interpersonal communication skills


• Comfortable working independently as well as on a team


• Detail oriented


• Self-motivated


• Strong computer skills


• Critical thinking

Qualifications

• BS in Civil Engineering


• 0 to 2 years of professional transportation engineering experience, preferably in a consulting environment


• EIT and/or Masters degree preferred


• MicroStation and/or AutoCAD experience


• Traffic engineering/operations, Synchro/SimTraffic, InRoads, Civil 3D, and/or HydroCAD experience a plus

New employees will be onboarded virtually and begin their employment from home. We are in the process of planning for a safe return to the workplace in alignment with government and CDC guidelines.

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VHB is proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status, age or any other federally protected class.

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