Traffic Engineering Manager

Job Description

Job Overview

This position serves as program manager for traffic engineering and traffic management center programs within the Transportation Engineering Sectio. The position provides for reducing reliance on consultant services that are too slow and costly to meet the services level of demands. With growing population and vehicle traffic, demand is increasing for traffic safety and signal timing investigations and studies, quick action safety design projects, traffic safety technology projects, and daily monitoring and management of traffic incidents. The position provides for meeting level of service targets and public expectations for quick actions for safety concerns.Core Competencies

• Customer Commitment - Proactively seeks to understand the needs of the customers and provide the highest standards of service.
• Dedication to Professionalism and Integrity - Demonstrates and promotes fair, honest, professional and ethical behaviors that establishes trust throughout the organization and with the public we serve.
• Organizational Excellence - Takes ownership for excellence through one's personal effectiveness and dedication to the continuous improvement of our operations.
• Success through Teamwork - Collaborates and builds partnerships through trust and the open exchange of diverse ideas and perspectives to achieve organizational goals.

Salary

Min $95,742.40 annually

Mid $131,747.20 annually

Duties and Responsibilities

Note: The following duties are illustrative and not exhaustive. The omission of specific statements of duties does not exclude them from the position if the work is similar, related, or a logical assignment to the position. Depending on assigned area of responsibility, incumbents in the position may perform one or more of the activities described below:

• Management of program managers to achieve their business unit goals and strategies. Achieve specific goals and objectives of the programs and operate consistent with the core values and policies of the County administration. Provide support to program managers for resources and for resolution of issues and challenges.
• Oversee administration of work plans to meet timelines and levels of service. Monitor and evaluate consistently and continuously initiatives status reporting and key performance indicators.
• Perform and provide quarterly program evaluations with risk, any potential program changes, and modifications to meet goals, to help program managers, and to link strategic annual plan and business execution.
• Oversee development of CIP work plans and budget analysis.
• Oversee the selection of potential projects by programs relative to established risk and rank processes, preparation of project scopes and preliminary engineering reports, and budget of programs.
• Other related duties as assigned.

Job Specifications

• General knowledge of laws, codes, regulations, policies, and procedures as they relate to Hillsborough County, transportation, and engineering.
• Advanced knowledge of transportation engineering theories, principles, and standards.
• Knowledge of program and project management, public communications, issue resolution techniques, procurement, and contracting practices.
• Skill in providing excellent internal and external customer service, performing administrative tasks, and fostering cooperative working relations between agencies and internal working groups within the Hillsborough County organization.
• Skill in rank ordering and organizing multiple tasks and initiatives and reprioritizing tasks as situations change and remain professional in stressful situations as a manager representing the County.
• Skill in spoken and written communications with administrative leaders, the public, the media, agencies, and professional organizations and facilitating and leading internal and external meetings.
• Ability to supervise, coach, influence, objectively review, evaluate, document, and mentor professional and support staff.
• Ability to have effective working relationships with County staff, officials, consultants, outside agencies, and the public.
• Ability to remain informed of new standards, legislation, codes, or practices that impact transportation engineering and public work projects.
• Ability to perform analyses and make data driven decision by application of established technical procedures of transportation engineering for project development and design.

Key Job Requirements

• Critical Thinking: View issues and tasks holistically to develop decisions, recommendations, and actions. Understanding and knowing the content of adopted policies, guidelines, and decisions of others. The factors considered and options are to be provided to decision makers.
• Decision Making: This position involves having a strong technical knowledge of human behavior, County adopted plans and programs, and engineering design for public safety, community impacts, economic impacts, the environment, citizen rights, and consideration of the impact on the public and officials. Coupled with the technical elements, decisions need to be from communication, coordination, and cooperation with staff, other functional groups, officials, and senior administration. Effective briefings and listening abilities are essential for the manager. Decisions are to be documented.
• Communication: Communications are to happen consistent with the organizational structure and authority and accountability of positions. Must be an effective in communicator, providing needed information and listening. For the manager's functional unit, the manager is to keep the staff informed of their programs, vision, changes, and how the group's goals are relevant to them.
• Strategic Planning: Each managerial unit, function, and program is to have a documented strategy within the appropriate context. Work with staff and next level management to develop and document each unit's annual, three years, and long-term goals with the strategies and tactics to achieve results. Annually perform SWOT and PESTLE analyses. Perform quarterly reviews; review the strategies and tactics with staff and issue a written status report to the next level of management within one week of the review.
• Managerial/Operational Skills: The manager is to handle the organizations core functions which includes day-to-day and strategic management. This involves the people, processes, and the products of the operating units as assigned.
• Leadership: This position involves staff to be inspired and motivated with a common dedicated vision, a strategy to achieve the vision, building and engaging a talented staff, relentlessly focusing on results relative to the strategy, and communicating and showing pride in public service. The manager needs to apply as needed situational leadership.
• Analytical Ability: The manager needs to identify and solve problems, define needs, produce programs, and budgets by research, data collection and analyses, logical reasoning, modelling, and application of analytical techniques including group problem solving, SWOT, auditing, and process improvements.
• Managing Complexity: The manager needs to handle financial management of programs including budget development, programs of funded projects, schedules and milestones, financial reporting, and financial metrics.

Physical Requirements

• Employee will be primarily in an office environment, regularly required to sit and talk. Indoor, office and outdoor including assessment of infrastructure immediately following severe weather events and emergency situations. Walking on various terrains, operating motor vehicles, lifting, pushing and making observations under differing weather conditions.

Work Category

• Light Work - Exerting up to 20 pounds of force occasionally, and/or up to 10 pounds of force frequently, and/or a negligible amount of force constantly to move objects. If the use of arm and/or leg control requires exertion of forces greater than that of sedentary work and if the worker sits most of the time, the job is considered light work.

Minimum Qualifications Required

• Bachelor's degree in civil engineering, or a related field.

Work Experience

• Minimum of ten years' experience in engineering transportation and managing professional engineering organizations with at least 10 or more staff of professional engineers and engineering support staff. Experience needs to include ten years with State or large local government agencies; including work with senior administration, elected officials, and the public and with developing programs including budgetary recommendations. The experience includes knowledge of regulations, policies, and procedures related to Florida public agencies.

Licenses/Certifications

• Professional Engineer (PE) License (Required)