Safety Studies Engineer
State of Florida
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Office
Location: DeLand • Florida • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $95,964 - $124,189 per year
Job Level
Mid-LevelSenior
About the role
- Supervises employees spending the majority of the time communicating with, motivating, training, and evaluating employees, and planning and directing employees’ work.
- Has the authority to effectively recommend the hiring, transferring, suspension, lay off, recall’s, promotions, discharges, assignments, rewards, or disciplinary actions for subordinate employees.
- Plans and directs workloads, deadlines, work objectives and time utilization with subordinate staff.
- Provides direction and ensures that all subordinates receive training and instruction in methods and techniques necessary to safely perform their assigned tasks.
- Develop and manage professional and contractual service contracts, and other types of agreements, that support traffic operations.
- This includes project management responsibilities associated with procuring contracts, issuing task work orders, reviewing contract deliverables, reviewing, and processing invoices, coordinating Department personnel and other agencies associated with work under the contract, preparing contract correspondence, maintaining project files, and actively participating in project meetings.
- Develop and review engineering reports and studies. This includes preparing and disseminating the Strategic Highway Safety Plan (SHSP) tracking reports, study documentation and presentation of findings and conclusions, analysis of engineering data, and coordination of resources necessary to produce reports.
- Signs and seals engineering documents as required.
- Assist the District Traffic Safety Program Engineer in coordinating project production with the Department's Work Program. This includes establishing and maintaining effective working relationships with the district's Work Program Unit so that project schedule and control can be efficiently managed.
- Assist with the development and coordination of the district’s safety work program.
- Participate in meetings, on committees, task teams and other groups with internal and external customers to represent traffic engineering interests. Includes, providing useful commentary and review of work products as well as developing correspondence and follow-up contact as needed.
- Assist the District Traffic Safety Program Engineer in implementing business and related plans to guide resource allocation and achieve unit performance targets. Includes collaborating with others in plan development, reporting plan results, linking performance targets to SMART objectives in staff expectations, and identifying and making resource recommendations.
Requirements
- Registered Professional Engineer in accordance with Chapter 471, Florida Statutes.
- Knowledge of: Traffic engineering concepts, terminology, principles, and analytical techniques.
- The Manual of Uniform Traffic Control Devices.
- Florida Department of Transportation standards, manuals, guidelines and practices.
- Traffic data collection techniques.
- Statistical techniques.
- Skills in: Problem solving.
- The use of personal computers and a variety of engineering software.
- Communication, including written, verbal and effective listening.
- Ability to: Read and interpret plans, specifications, design standards, and manuals.
- Apply engineering concepts, practices and functions.
- Input and retrieve information from a computer database.
- Collect, analyze, and interpret engineering data.
- Work independently and make decisions.
- Establish and maintain effective working relationships.
Benefits
- Health insurance (over 90% employer paid)
- $25,000 life insurance policy (100% employer paid)
- Dental, vision and supplemental insurances
- State of Florida retirement package
- 10 paid holidays a year
- Generous vacation and sick leave
- Career advancement opportunities
- Tuition waiver for public college courses
- A variety of training opportunities
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
traffic engineeringengineering analysisstatistical techniquesdata collection techniquesproject managementcontract managementengineering documentationproblem solvingengineering conceptsperformance target linkage
Soft skills
communicationmotivationtrainingevaluationplanningdecision makingrelationship buildingcollaborationeffective listeningindependence
Certifications
Registered Professional Engineer