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SALARY: $65,876 - $115,283

The Challenge

We are looking for a Senior Engineer III to join our Division 7 Traffic team as a Project Manager.

In this role, you will:

• Coordinate and track projects from conception to completion, including project feasibility, planning, public involvement, project design, right-of-way acquisition, environmental issues, budget, and project letting. Projects include new signal installations, modifying existing signals, adding pedestrian amenities and improvements, modifying signage and markings, installing guardrail, modifying signal timings, revising lane assignments, and converting intersections to all way stop control.
• Track and coordinate projects using solid attention to detail and timeliness to ensure projects are successfully delivered.  
• Maintain familiarity with unique environmental issues, such as water and air quality, rapid development, and increasing traffic volumes due to growth in population.
• Respond to public, local governmental agencies, and private engineering firms regarding the status and design aspects of traffic projects.
• Provide engineering and design guidance to NCDOT engineering staff and private engineering firms.
• Assist our Division Traffic Engineer in directing project delivery that includes setting work standards and participating in establishing work rules, quality of work standards, and interpreting how standards apply to the work of reports.
• Monitor staff work progress and meet established deadlines.
• Perform random reviews of work in progress and assure completed projects conform to established standards.
• Counsel and discipline staff, resolving minor problems related to work rules, standard performance of subordinates, and recommend action when formal disciplinary procedures are necessary.

What You Bring

• Knowledge of setting and meeting project schedules while maintaining project scope and budget.
• Experience motivating, counseling, and training engineers and technicians.
• Experience reviewing engineering plans and details to determine compliance and compatibility with traffic and engineering principles.
• Customer service experience related to solving problems involving explaining engineering concepts to customer groups.
• Experience collaborating with others to find solutions to controversial or sensitive matters that establish precedents.
• Extensive municipal and developer project coordination experience.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills to communicate with contractors, the public, and other government agencies.
• Ability to work outside for extended periods in variable weather conditions on uneven terrain.
• Driving skills to safely operate a motor vehicle.
• Safety toe shoes.

Education and Experience

• Bachelor's degree in engineering, and
• 4+ years of relevant experience; or
• An equivalent combination of education and experience.

Notes

• You may be required to work at any time, including nights and weekends, and holidays.
• We may require you to be registered as a professional engineer by the NC Board of Examiners for Engineers and Surveyors.

Questions?

Call me: Lindora Rowell at 336-487-0175.

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