Job Description

The Opportunity

We are currently seeking a Traffic Discipline Leader to join either our Charleston or Columbia, SC office.

The successful candidate will have a proven track record leading and performing diverse and complex work in the areas of traffic engineering, mentoring, and management. This position will have the ability to work a hybrid schedule of in-office and remote. As a technical expert you will have a key role in project work, while also cultivating relationships with existing and new clients. You will work to achieve our goals of a profitable operation and a supportive and inclusive work environment. You will be a key member in our national traffic engineering practice and work with our South Carolina transportation leadership to grow traffic engineering in the state.

The ideal candidate has previous leadership responsibilities and traffic engineering expertise including:

• Capacity and Microsimulation Analysis
• Safety Studies and Crash Predictive Analysis
• Traffic Volume Development and Forecasting
• Traffic Studies
• Signal Timing and Design
• ITS Planning and Design

Responsibilities:

Project Delivery & Technical Excellence

• Serve as a leader delivering traffic engineering services for SCDOT and local clients.
• Actively manage projects and discipline specific tasks including performing project management activities (project scope, schedule, budget, and quality management).
• Administer quality management plans and perform thorough, detailed reviews of project deliverables.
• Work with leaders across the firm’s national traffic engineering practice to develop industry-best technical strategies and procedures.

People Development

• Supervising, coaching, and mentoring junior engineering staff.
• Recruit qualified staff at the skill and experience levels needed to promote team growth.
• Establish and/or review priorities and work schedules and coordinates resource needs/assignments.

Client Relationships, Marketing, Pursuit Development

• Engage in marketing activities to grow our client network and to bring in new work in coordination with our firm’s strategic plan for South Carolina.
• Foster partnerships and relationships with other consulting firms to assist with business development, building client relationships, and pursuit efforts for projects.
• Assist in marketing responsibilities, including client discovery, proposal generation, interviews, and win-to-work activities.

Minimum Qualifications:

• ABET accredited bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering, Transportation Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related field.
• PE License
• Minimum 10 years of traffic engineering experience including proven technical leadership (decision-making on technical matters).
• Proficient in production software and design document production.
• Excellent oral and written communications skills, including the ability to communicate with leadership on matters of strategic importance, and can effectively interact and build strong relationships with clients and other key stakeholders.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Professional Traffic Operations Engineer (PTOE) license.
• Experience successfully delivering traffic engineering projects for SCDOT.
• Experience leading and supervising a team of traffic engineers.

If this sounds like the role for you and you're ready to join an amazing team, please apply.

An Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.

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Please note: no agency representation or submissions will be recognized for this vacancy. Candidates should apply directly to this role to be considered. It is the responsibility of all third-party recruiting and employment agencies to know and adhere to our recruiting policy.

The Team

RS&H provides fully integrated architecture, engineering, and consulting services to help clients realize their most complex facility and infrastructure projects for land, air, and space. We are committed to bringing extraordinary solutions to our clients through the promise of imagination, ingenuity, and innovation. With a tradition of excellence that began in 1941, we are consistently ranked among the nation’s top 100 design firms. We attribute our success to an unwavering commitment to our core values of: integrity, quality service, business success and valuing associates.

The Company

Employee-owned, RS&H is one of the nation’s leading architecture, engineering, and consulting firms, with associates who work hard every day to create tomorrow together. We offer an exceptional journey from start to future. Our integrated teams translate experience into insight, turn challenges into opportunities, and build relationships that are as strong as the buildings and infrastructure we deliver together. We attribute our success to our unwavering commitment to our core values: integrity, accountability, curiosity, and teamwork.