What We're Looking For: The Georgia/Carolinas Traffic Practice Leader provides leadership to one of Barge's Transportation regions. This role is responsible for hiring, developing, and managing technical staff in the region, and partners with Project Managers to assign technical resources to projects. This role is also responsible for ensuring that skills and capabilities match our clients' needs and that project costs are kept within established budgets. The success metrics for this role are quality delivery, adherence to project budgets, utilization, and employee experience.
Responsibilities:
Provide oversight and leadership of the Traffic discipline for the region
Forecast and develop the discipline's staff mix to align with business sector growth projections
Develop and promote policies and standard procedures to improve project delivery
Work to reduce the discipline's project delivery costs to help drive competitive status
Attend client meetings, manage technical expertise to provide subject matter support
Act as a technical advisor for various projects and programs
Provide input to proposals and Project Management Plans
Act as a technical lead on portions of larger complex projects
Continue to strengthen relationships with clients, sectors, direct reports, and others
Play active role in advising and executing strategic and business planning activities
Promote a great work environment for the region
Embrace our Purpose, Vision, and Values and champion this with direct reports
Perform other duties as assigned
Education & Experience Qualifications:
Bachelor's degree in engineering or related field from accredited program
Professional Engineer (PE) registration (or ability to obtain within six months
Minimum of 10 years' relevant experience, preferably encompassing a variety of assignments involving traffic planning, design and/or operations, such as:
Transportation planning studies, including evaluation of alternative solutions for corridors, intersections, and/or interchanges
Planning and design of multimodal improvements, including pedestrian, bicycle, and transit facilities
Public outreach in support of planning studies
Traffic forecasting
Traffic operational analysis
Safety studies
Intersection Control Evaluation (ICE), benefit-cost analysis
Signing/pavement marking design
Traffic signal design
Development and implementation of corridor signal timing plans
ITS and communications network design
Strong understanding and experience in the use of policies, standards, and specifications of FHWA, AASHTO, state DOT's and municipalities
Experience/ familiarity with traffic engineering and planning software (HCS, Synchro, VISSIM, ArcGIS)
Ability to research and learn innovative solutions and best practices in the industry
Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
Strong organizational skills, preferably including experience supervising and developing junior staff
Previous business development experience preferred
Business administration and leadership development training preferred
Why join us?
Barge Design Solutions, Inc., is an engineering and architecture firm with diverse in-house multidisciplinary practice areas. The employee-owned company is more than 400-people strong and serves clients nationwide from multiple U.S. locations. Barge is ranked No. 171 on Engineering News-Record (ENR)'s 2021 Top 500 Design Firms list, is No. 177 on Architectural Record's Top 300 Architecture Firms and is a certified Great Place To Work®.
Our primary purpose for being in business is ultimately to create a better life by unleashing the potential of our people, clients and communities. This purpose is supported by our company's core values because at the end of the day, Barge CARES:
Collaborate - Help and expect help. Teamwork is essential in what we do.
Authentic - Honesty, integrity and trust are at the heart of everything we do. We are who we say we are.
Responsible - We are accountable for our work, our attitude, and our actions. We make Barge better.
Excellence - We go all in and expect more of ourselves than others expect of us.
Service - We are humble. We use our gifts in service of others.
We believe that if we are living out our purpose for being in business and integrating our values into everything we do, we will ultimately achieve our vision to be the firm best known for being selected when it matters most.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status or on the basis of disability. Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled