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Job Description:
Parsons is looking for an amazingly talented Senior Traffic Engineer to join our team! In this role you will get to work within a new PMO working on major highways / infrastructure projects in the KSA Capital, Riyadh City.
What You'll Be Doing:
- Overseeing traffic signal, junction, temporary works and other associated traffic engineering designs ensuring effective communication and collaboration with the project team throughout the project lifecycle.
- Responsible for developing and managing the scope of each traffic engineering design task, creating the schedule, and establishing budgets. This includes monitoring project progress and resource allocation to ensure successful completion.
- Provide regular written and verbal updates on project status to the project manager. This involves reporting on project milestones, risks, and issues, as well as discussing strategies to mitigate challenges.
- Present technical results and recommendations, utilizing your expertise in traffic engineering.
- Lead the project team in preparing traffic engineering plans, which could involve signal designs, signing and marking designs, conceptual designs for intersections, or Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) designs. Your expertise would be essential in ensuring accurate and effective plans.
- Coordinate with various subject matter experts, such as surveyors and roadway designers to ensure the successful delivery of projects. This involves facilitating collaboration, providing guidance, and integrating their expertise into traffic signal and traffic control plans.
- Conduct and document traffic studies following nationally accepted modeling practices. This involves using various analytical tools and methodologies to evaluate traffic patterns, assess safety measures, and recommend improvements.
- Assist engineers in developing technical approaches for traffic engineering projects and review technical results prepared by others. This includes providing guidance and ensuring adherence to quality standards and best practices.
- Provide training and guidance to junior engineers, sharing your technical proficiency and consultancy skills. This involves mentoring, offering technical support, and facilitating their professional development.
- Contribute to the successful delivery of traffic engineering projects, promoting safety, and enhancing transportation operations.
What Required Skills You'll Bring:
- Bachelor's Degree in Engineering
- 15+ years of related work experience.
- Experience/familiarity with Microstation, Bentley OpenRoads, and/or Projectwise
- Understanding of the use of traffic analysis tools including HCS, Transmodeler, Synchro/SimTraffic
- Understanding of the application of traffic operations principles including ITE, OMUTCD, MUTCD, ODOT TEM, AASHTO, and ODOT L&D requirements
- Experience in developing traffic signal design plans
- Experience in one or more of the following areas: ODOT design standards, ITS design, traffic operations studies, or intersection conceptual drafting
- Experience in reviewing third party designs and coordinating comments for approval
- Experience of working within a multi-discipline team environment
- Proactive approach to own activities and helping in other disciplines, as far as practically possible, to assist in PMO overall efficiency.
What Desired Skills You'll Bring:
- Previous experience of working in a PMO
- Charted (or similar) status with an industry recognized engineering body
- Master’s Degree in Transportation Engineering
- Experience managing large tasks and/or projects
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Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering
- 15+ years of related work experience
- Experience or familiarity with MicroStation, Bentley OpenRoads, and/or ProjectWise
- Understanding of traffic analysis tools including HCS, TransModeler, and Synchro/SimTraffic
- Understanding of traffic operations principles and applicable ITE, OMUTCD, MUTCD, ODOT TEM, AASHTO, and ODOT L&D requirements
- Experience developing traffic signal design plans
- Experience with ODOT design standards, ITS design, traffic operations studies, or intersection conceptual drafting
- Experience reviewing third-party designs and coordinating comments for approval
- Experience working within a multidisciplinary team environment
- Proactive approach to managing own activities and supporting other disciplines
- Previous PMO experience
- Chartered or similar status with an industry-recognized engineering body
- Master's degree in Transportation Engineering
- Experience managing large tasks and/or projects
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Retirement Support — Retirement programs are framed as a major value driver, with an ESOP alongside a 401(k) match and additional stock-purchase options contributing meaningfully to total rewards. This structure is positioned as especially attractive for employees who value long-term wealth-building over immediate cash.
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage is described as broad and choice-rich, with multiple plan types (PPO, HDHP, and some HMO networks) plus dental, vision, EAP, and wellness resources. The availability of different plan designs and national-carrier coverage supports varied employee needs.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time-off offerings are portrayed as competitive, including PTO, holidays, flexible schedules such as a 9/80 option for eligible roles, and floating holidays in the U.S. Paid parental leave of 160 hours is also highlighted as a meaningful component of the overall package.
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What We Do
Parsons is a digitally enabled solutions provider with a focus on making the world safer, smarter, healthier, more sustainable, and more connected. Founded in 1944, Parsons primarily serves the defense, security, and infrastructure markets. Uniquely qualified to deliver cyber/converged security, technology-based intellectual property, and other innovative services, the corporation delivers state-of-the-art solutions to federal, regional, and local government agencies as well as to private industrial customers worldwide. Parsons has a reputation for inclusion and diversity and has been named to the Ethisphere Institute’s list of World’s Most Ethical Companies for 10 consecutive years. Parsons facilitates a culture of innovation by encouraging collaboration among its employees and providing opportunities for career growth. With offices around the globe, people of varied talents and backgrounds, and a wide range of exciting projects, the possibilities at Parsons are endless. For more about Parsons, visit www.parsons.com. Mission: Delivering innovative infrastructure, defense, and security solutions to enable a more sustainable, safer, smarter, and more connected world.
