Senior Traffic Safety Engineer

This position will manage studies and tasks in the roadway safety audit and studies program and will be responsible for coordinating the required traffic counts and data collection, developing and producing plans, and coordinating public and Board of County Supervisors/official engagement, and interdepartmental coordination. In this role, the person will work on a variety of traffic engineering projects and initiatives, including preparing and reviewing road safety audits, reviewing traffic impact and intersection/corridor improvement studies, and developing studies in support of the traffic safety engineering section. The position will support identification and implementation of projects utilizing the County’s Comprehensive Traffic Safety Action Plan, along with supporting the Red Light, School Zone Speed, and Work Zone Speed Photo Enforcement programs with implementation and data collection/analysis. The position will be dealing directly with elected officials, citizens, consultants, and inter-agency staff to resolve problems and to improve the community’s transportation safety and will be conducting field reviews, compiling recommendations and coordinating with various agencies to implement ideas into operational solutions. In addition, this position will be required to manage small scale multimodal transportation enhancement projects and studies and manage them to ensure they are accomplished within the established budget, on schedule and result in enhancing traffic safety.