Job Description

Posting number: 26-01701

Department: Transportation

Job classification: PLANNING TECHNICIAN II

Posting type: Open

Categories: Planning and Development, Transportation

Summary

Since 1977, the Fairfax County Department of Transportation (FCDOT) has served the Fairfax County community by enhancing mobility, safety, and the quality of life of residents, businesses, and visitors through planning, coordinating, funding, implementing, and sustaining a multimodal transportation system. FCDOT is seeking an innovative, motivated and qualified Planning Technician II to join the Active Transportation, Capital Projects and Traffic Engineering Division. This position works for projects in Fairfax County’s Residential Traffic Administration Program, which include the Traffic Calming Program, Cut-Through Traffic Restriction Program, Through Truck Restriction Program, $200 Additional Fine for Speeding Program and the Watch for Children Program. This position may also perform work supporting residential parking programs and associated street sign management.

Responsibilities include:

• Evaluating residential traffic issues for program eligibility
• Coordinating and performing traffic data collection activities, including the installation, retrieval, downloading, and analysis of traffic counter data, to evaluate compliance with program requirements
• Assisting with managing residential traffic programs, including processing, analyzing, and reporting results and providing recommendations to Board of Supervisors’ office staff
• Using ArcGIS Pro to create, issue, and evaluate qualifying public ballot packages; using ArcGIS to maintain relevant map layers, to produce project maps
• Evaluating and updating public content for program web pages, including program maps
• Managing inventory of program materials
• Maintaining all program databases to ensure data is accurate and up to date
• Preparing and attending public hearings, workshops, community, state and national events, and presenting information to residents, community associations, and other agencies
• Preparing official items for Board of Supervisors’ consideration, and other written materials as required to successfully complete projects or assignments
• Performing complex and technical paraprofessional work, requiring independent review and analysis of information, complex calculations, judgment, and decision making
• Assisting Transportation Planners with plan development by visiting field locations to collect transportation data, such as road measurements, location of existing roadway features, and mark potential device locations
• Performing other duties as assigned.

For more information on the Fairfax County Department of Transportation, please click here.

Supplemental information

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

Any combination of education, experience, and training equivalent to:

High school graduation or a GED issued by a state department of education; plus three years of paraprofessional planning or zoning related work, as defined by the area to which assigned.

CERTIFICATES AND LICENSES REQUIRED:

Valid driver's license.

NECESSARY SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS:

The appointee to this position will be required to complete a driving record check to the satisfaction of the employer.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Knowledge of the principles and methods of traffic engineering and analysis
• Three or more years of paraprofessional experience in traffic engineering or transportation planning program administration
• Two years of experience in using Geographic Information System (GIS) tools, database software, design software, and/or traffic analysis tools
• Experience preparing/reviewing project design plans.
• Experience with and ability to organize and coordinate multiple projects and assignments, and establish priorities
• Experience with highway signage placement and installation, including ensuring compliance with applicable Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices (MUTCD) and Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) standards and requirements for highway signs
• Experience conducting field observations and performing data analysis.
• Experience in preparing and reviewing transportation or traffic analysis
• Experience in coordinating with local and state government entities, including elected officials
• Good written and oral communication skills, strong negotiation skills
• Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with fellow employees, public officials, and the general public
• Proficiency with Microsoft office

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS:

Ability to use hand tools. Work is generally sedentary. Employee may be required to do some walking, standing, bending, and carrying of items under 25 pounds in weight. All duties performed with or without reasonable accommodations.

SELECTION PROCEDURE:

Panel interview and may include exercise.

Fairfax County is home to a highly diverse population, with a significant number of residents speaking languages other than English at home (including Spanish, Asian/Pacific Islander, Indo-European, and many others.) We encourage candidates who are bilingual in English and another language to apply for this opportunity.

Fairfax County Government prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditions, age, marital status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetics, political affiliation, or military status in the recruitment, selection, and hiring of its workforce.

Reasonable accommodations are available to persons with disabilities during application and/or interview processes per the Americans with Disabilities Act. TTY 703-222-7314. DHREmployment@fairfaxcounty.gov EEO/AA/TTY.