Leads traffic engineering and transportation projects, overseeing signal designs, signing and pavement marking, maintenance of traffic plans, traffic studies, safety evaluations, and transportation analyses. Provides technical quality assurance, coordinates multidisciplinary teams, mentors staff, supports resource planning, and develops client relationships and business opportunities. Ensures compliance with IDOT, Illinois Tollway, MUTCD, and local agency standards.
Transportation Practice
Consistently ranked by Engineering News-Record as a Top 20 transportation firm, Michael Baker International offers clients an integrated team of professionals versed in all aspects of transportation planning, design, permitting, and construction management and inspection. In addition, Michael Baker International is a recognized leader in the practical aspects of operating and maintaining a safe and efficient transportation infrastructure.
What We’re Looking For:
Michael Baker International is seeking a Traffic Technical Manager to support and grow our Transportation Practice. This leadership role is ideal for a traffic engineering professional with 12+ years of experience who can provide technical expertise, mentor staff, lead complex transportation projects, and help strengthen client relationships across state, county, municipal, and private-sector markets.
What You’ll Do:
- Serve as a technical leader for traffic engineering and transportation projects.
- Oversee the development and review of traffic signal designs, signing and pavement marking plans, maintenance of traffic plans, traffic studies, safety evaluations, and transportation analyses.
- Provide quality assurance and technical oversight to ensure compliance with IDOT, Illinois Tollway, MUTCD, and local agency standards.
- Lead multidisciplinary project coordination, support project delivery, and assist with staffing and resource planning.
- Mentor and develop engineering staff while promoting technical excellence and best practices.
- Build and maintain client relationships, support business development efforts, and contribute to strategic growth initiatives.
What You Need to Succeed:
- Bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering or related field.
- Professional Engineer (PE) license in Illinois, or ability to obtain shortly after hire.
- PTOE preferred
- 12+ years of progressive traffic and transportation engineering experience.
- Strong experience delivering projects for IDOT, Illinois Tollway, counties, municipalities, and other public-sector clients.
- Demonstrated expertise in traffic operations, traffic signal design, signing and pavement marking, maintenance of traffic, traffic studies, and safety analysis.
- Experience leading technical teams, mentoring staff, and providing quality reviews.
- Proficiency with OpenRoads Designer (ORD), MicroStation, and other traffic engineering software.
- Excellent communication, leadership, project management, and client relationship skills.
Compensation
The approximate compensation range for this position is $115,000 to $187,000. This compensation range is a good faith estimate for the position at the time of posting. Actual compensation is dependent upon factors such as education, qualifications, experience, skillset, and physical work location.
Why Choose Us:
- Medical, dental, vision insurance
- 401k Retirement Plan
- Health Savings Account (HSA)
- Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
- Life, AD&D, short-term, and long-term disability
- Professional and personal development
- Generous paid time off
- Commuter and wellness benefits
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About UsMichael Baker International, a leading provider of engineering and consulting services, including design, planning, architectural, environmental, construction and program management, has been solving some of the world’s most complex infrastructure challenges for more than 85 years with a legacy of expertise, experience, innovation and integrity.Based in Pittsburgh and with over 100 offices nationwide, we partner with clients on everything from roads, bridges, tunnels, mass transit, and airports, to water treatment plants, arctic oil pipelines, environmental restoration and specialized overseas construction. We serve as a trusted adviser to the communities we serve, making them safer, more accessible, more sustainable and more prosperous.
We provide visionary leadership in facilitating transformational change for our clients. Our work delivers differentiating innovations and dedicated experts who challenge the status quo and share a world of diverse experience and an impassioned entrepreneurial spirit. We deliver quality of life.
We Make a Difference.
Michael Baker International is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. Michael Baker International provides equal employment opportunity for all persons, in all facets of employment. Michael Baker International maintains a drug-free workplace and performs pre-employment substance abuse testing and background checks. We encourage all qualified applicants to apply for any open position for which they feel they are qualified and all will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, creed, age, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, citizenship status, marital status, familial status, pregnancy or childbirth, genetic information, disability, protected veteran status, status with regard to public assistance, or membership or activity in a local human rights commission, or any other legally protected status.
EEO is the Law. Applicants to and employees of Michael Baker International are protected under Federal law from discrimination.
*It is unlawful in Massachusetts to require or administer a lie detector test as a condition of employment or continued employment. An employer who violates this law shall be subject to criminal penalties and civil liability.
*There is no current application deadline. Michael Baker will continue to accept applications on an ongoing basis until the position is filled or no longer needed.
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