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DEFINITION
Manages the Town's transportation program, including engineering, planning, budgeting, construction and maintenance of the Town's traffic network and transportation infrastructure system and a team of professional personnel. Oversees multi-modal transportation projects, traffic safety and congestion reduction programs, traffic studies, and initiatives. Provides supervision to assigned staff. Maintains effective working relationships with Town employees, community members, state and county agencies, and appropriate others in support of assigned duties.
SUPERVISION RECEIVED AND EXERCISED
Receives direction from the Development Services Director. General supervision is exercised over professional staff.
ESSENTIAL JOB DUTIES
Essential duties may include, but are not limited to the following:
- Develops and directs the implementation of goals, objectives, policies, procedures and work standards for assigned division; interprets and complies with all applicable local, state and federal regulations (e.g. MUTCD, etc.).
- Develops and monitors the division’s budget; oversees financial well-being of the division by analyzing cost effectiveness and directing cost control activities.
- Oversees the budgeting, planning, engineering, and construction of Town’s transportation capital improvement projects.
- Oversees and directs workflow for multiple programs and functions (e.g. Neighborhood Traffic Management Program, etc.).
- Evaluates, analyzes, prepares, reviews, and submits routine and specialized technical reports.
- Coordinate interdepartmental responses to transportation and traffic projects; work closely with engineering, maintenance, planning, and police staff on a wide-range of municipal transportation and traffic issues.
- Oversees transportation review of the traffic and transportation requirements for land development projects; prepare scope of work for traffic impact studies; reviews traffic impact studies, makes comments and recommendation for approval.
- Oversees the operation and maintenance of the Town’s traffic, bicycle and pedestrian signals and related infrastructure, including inspections, troubleshooting, and contracting for major repairs.
- Review accident reports and prepare collision diagrams.
- Review and comment on new traffic signal plans and assist with field inspection of new traffic signals; monitor traffic signal operations and make proactive field adjustments and enhancements.
- Apply highway design standards, criteria, and policies; utilize accident and traffic volume records and traffic control device inventory to produce a complete and creative solution to traffic problems.
- Apply for and secure funds for targeted transportation grants.
- Makes presentations to Town Council, boards, commissions, and citizen groups.
- Staff liaison to a number of multi-agency Joint Powers Authorities and Regional Committees to ensure multi-agency collaboration on regional issues and programs are met and that multi-agency services are being provided efficiently and effectively; collaborates closely with Town Council liaison to the Committee(s), as well as other agencies’ elected officials.
- Coordinates, corresponds and interacts directly with citizens, customers, staff, etc., for transportation engineering services (e.g. safety, traffic calming, sight distance, speed management, active transportation, etc.).
- Respond to citizen inquiries, suggestions, and concerns for safety and/or solutions to unique traffic problems by creatively utilizing acceptable traffic engineering standards.
- Represents the Town before boards, commissions, and committees addressing transportation issues in southwest Contra Costa County
- Performs emergency or disaster-related duties as assigned; and
- Performs other duties as assigned.
QUALIFICATIONS
Knowledge of:
- Principles, practices, and techniques of transportation planning and traffic engineering.
- Fundamentals of traffic engineering, including human and vehicular characteristics, intersection and roadway capacity, transportation impact studies, traffic signal operations, intersection design, residential street design and traffic control, on and off‑street parking, traffic control devices; traffic signal operations at isolated intersections and coordinated signal systems, and site planning.
- Recent developments, current literature and sources of information regarding transportation planning and traffic engineering.
Ability to:
- Prepare clear and concise written reports and correspondence.
- Make presentations before the Town Council and other organizations.
- Apply transportation planning and traffic engineering knowledge to specific technical problems.
- Layout and design a wide variety of traffic implementation plans.
- Deal tactfully and effectively with the general public, civic and community groups, public officials and consultants.
EXPERIENCE AND EDUCATION
Any combination of experience and education that would likely provide the required knowledge and abilities is qualifying. A typical way to obtain the knowledge and abilities would be:
Experience:
Five (5) years of progressive experience in civil engineering, traffic engineering, transportation planning, or closely related field including at least two (2) years of supervisory experience.
Education:
A bachelor’s degree in transportation planning, traffic engineering or closely related field.
LICENSE(S) AND CERTIFICATION(S)
Possession of a valid California State Driver's License, or license in another state with the ability to obtain a California license within 30 days of hire. Registration as a Traffic Engineer is desired but not mandatory.