Senior Transportation Planning Supervisor

Job Duties

The Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT) is seeking to fill the role of a Transportation Planning Supervisor to serve as the senior transportation planner and coordinate with Districts and Consultants on transportation planning activities and programs. This role will conduct technical analyses to support the STARS program, supervise, lead and develop staff.

Additional responsibilities include but are not limited to:

Transportation Planning Studies

Conduct, manage and participate in transportation planning studies. Conduct traffic forecasting reviews. Collect and analyze data and provide recommendations. Conduct various traffic engineering tasks and utilize planning software to develop solutions.

Team Leadership

Supervise team of engineers, planners and technicians. Assign projects and task, monitor work progress and provide guidance. Promote training and development opportunities.

Contract Management

Manages STARS contract including review of scope and fee, consultant management, bi-weekly meeting with consultants to address any issues, and consultant evaluations.

This position will also support various funding applications.

Minimum Qualifications

• Ability to communicate effectively verbally and in writing with diverse audiences.
• Demonstrated ability to apply transportation planning and traffic engineering principles and practices to a variety of complex projects.
• Ability to evaluate and develop innovative solutions for transportation planning and mobility initiatives.
• Ability to organize and analyze transportation data.
• Experience using planning and traffic engineering software, e.g. ArcGIS, Synchro, Highway Capacity Software, Synchro, Sidra, VISSIM, TransCAD, StreetLight, INRIX etc.
• Experience using data analysis and data visualization tools such as Power BI.
• Experience in long-range transportation planning to include forecasting, transportation studies and traffic analyses.

Additional Considerations

• Knowledge of VDOT data (Crash analysis tool, traffic volume).
• Experience working with multi-disciplinary teams and other transportation planning professionals on a wide range of transportation-related issues.
• Experience managing employees, contract management and procurement.
• Profession Engineer (P.E.) license or American Institute of Certified Planner (AICP) certificate
• A combination of training, experience, or education in Transportation Planning, Civil Engineering, Urban Planning or related field