Senior Traffic Engineer

About This Role

Serve as a Senior Traffic Engineer in the City of Oxnard's Public Works Department, contributing strong technical and customer service skills within the Engineering Division. Design, develop, and review comprehensive traffic control plans and conduct in-depth traffic studies to enhance pedestrian and vehicular safety.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and review comprehensive traffic control plans for construction and maintenance projects, ensuring compliance with local, state, and federal regulations
• Conduct and review in-depth traffic studies, including volume counts, speed studies, intersection analysis and signalized arterial analyses (utilizing Synchro package)
• Perform safety audits and assessments based on traffic analysis, recommending improvements to enhance pedestrian and vehicular safety
• Oversee traffic engineering projects from concept through implementation, managing budgets, schedules, and resources
• Manage construction of CIP traffic related projects, working with contractors and ensuring compliance with Caltrans process and procedures
• Develop and review traffic design plans for roadways, intersections, bicycle and pedestrian facilities, ensuring compliance with local, state, and federal standards
• Work closely with city planners, contractors, and community stakeholders to integrate feedback into traffic designs and address concerns
• Prepare technical reports and presentations summarizing traffic design concepts, project updates, and analysis findings for stakeholders
• Review, evaluate, develop and/or verify plans, specifications, proposals, contracts, designs and/or other technical documents; monitors compliance with goals, standards, policies, procedures, codes, regulations and related laws
• Coordinate reviews and meetings with architects, engineers, departments/divisions, regulatory agencies, inspectors, consultants, public representatives and/or other engineering project/program-related resources

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in engineering, architecture, construction management, or a directly related field
• 5 years of professional engineering and/or construction/project management experience in area of assignment
• Experience in traffic signal design and transportation planning (for traffic engineering assignment)
• Ability to effectively communicate in English, both orally and in writing

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, architecture, construction management, or a directly related field
• Five (5) years of professional engineering and/or construction/project management experience in area of assignment. Incumbents assigned to traffic engineering, require experience in traffic signal design and transportation planning.

Nice to Have

• Public sector experience

Skills

* Required skills