Job Information
Colorado Department Of Transportation ENGINEER-IN-TRAINING III - Denver, Traffic Operations in Denver, Colorado
DEPARTMENT INFORMATION:
This position is only open to Colorado state residents.
This position is covered by the Partnership Agreement between the State of Colorado and Colorado Workers for Innovative and New Solutions (COWins).
New employees to the State will be paid biweekly. There are 26 biweekly pay periods in a year.
ABOUT CDOT Do you want to make a difference in Coloradans' lives? Do you have a passion for helping people and keeping them safe? At the Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT), you'll have the opportunity to do just that. The work our people do contributes to keeping Coloradans and visitors safe and provides freedom, connection, and experience through travel. Please visit our careers page to learn about CDOT and how we are making Colorado a great place to live, work and play, now and for the future! Also, check out our excellent benefits package!
CDOT FOR ALL CDOT's strength is our people, and our commitment to our people is to shape, support, and sustain the employee experience, and ultimately, create a supportive workplace where everyone, regardless of gender, race, ethnicity, religion, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, citizenship status, education, disability, socio-economic status, or any other identity, has the opportunity to thrive.
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The eligible list created from this announcement may be used to fill one or more positions.
DESCRIPTION OF JOB:
About the Unit The Traffic Safety & Engineering Services unit exists to provide highway safety and traffic operations-related input for transportation planning and project development to improve operations through multiple programs and projects. They include Standards, Specifications, reviewing products for CDOT use, Traffic Incident Management, Traffic Modeling, Bottleneck Reduction, Operations Analysis, Safety Crash Analysis, and Field studies.
About the Position The Engineer in Training III will work under the supervision and direction of a licensed Professional Engineer: work fully-operational, non-licensed engineer providing expertise to the unit and Regions for operations, traffic engineering, data collection to assist with asset and program management, and Transportation Systems Management and Operations (TSM&O) implementations. This position, under the guidance and supervision of a Professional Engineer, reviews or prepares evaluations for construction projects and highway corridors as requested by the regions. Assist and oversee the management of operations and safety programs by evaluating, ranking, and selecting projects proposed by local agencies and CDOT Regions. Perform traffic studies, simulation, crash analysis, signal warrant studies, intersection analysis, and traffic operation analysis for safety projects and upon region requests.
Major duties and responsibilities are performed under the supervision of a licensed Professional Engineer and include, but are not limited to the following:
Operations Evaluations
A junior subject matter expert conducting research, information collection, plan, specification review, interviews, field reviews, procedures, and processes to complete or administer Operations Evaluations. Reviews projects from a traffic operation engineering perspective to evaluate before and after impacts of operations recommendations. Assisting and conducting assessments, this position discovers patterns on state highways that must be corrected and review safety data to ensure that proposed corrections will improve safety. Consider the impacts of traffic operation improvements on freight, pedestrians, bicyclists, transit, commuting, local agencies, zoning, signal timing, planning, and future projects. Provide traffic engineering review f planning, feasibility, system-level, and National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) studies. Perform as an administrator for the Operations Evaluation Web tool and traffic engineering tools. Provide advice on how to complete Operations Evaluations. Coordinate operation evaluation compliance within the region and provide analysis for all projects requested by region traffic units. Traffic Operations Engineering and Data Analysis Assist in traffic data analysis, database management, and data entry as needed for asset management, The Strategic Highway Research Program 2 (SHRP2), The Hot Spot Program (HOTSPOTS), Congestion relief, Rural Access Mobility Platform (RAMP), Funding Advancements for Surface Transportation and Economic Recovery Act (FASTER), and other CDOT or federal programs as required. Conduct regional data collection, analysis, and inspection of needs, and relate causality to roadway geometrics, traffic control devices, crash data, intersection operations, turning movements, signals, and traffic operations using highway and traffic engineering principles. Collect and analyze data using available resources and provide innovative