Description
The Traffic Controls and Road Use Coordination Section manages construction and events on Edmonton's diverse network of roads. The City of Edmonton's Traffic Controls and Road Use Coordination team is looking for a Traffic Engineer to help shape and operationalize our transportation network.
The City of Edmonton's Traffic Controls and Road Use Coordination team is looking for a Traffic Engineer to help manage and operate our transportation network. This is your chance to apply your technical expertise to real-world challenges, ensuring our roads, pathways, and crossings work for everyone.
You will be responsible for evaluating and analyzing city-wide traffic operational issues for all modes of travel, including active transportation, while maintaining safety. Using national guidelines and your professional judgment, you'll make recommendations to improve safety and efficiency. This role involves supporting other City initiatives from a traffic operations perspective. You will prepare, review, and professionally authenticate critical technical documents—such as standards of practice, traffic detour plans, and accommodation plans—ensuring all work aligns with APEGA standards and national guidelines like the MUTCDC.
You will report directly to the Senior Traffic Engineer, who is responsible to review and approve the work being performed by this developmental role.
What will you do?
- Technically evaluate traffic designs from contractors and engineering consultants to ensure they meet City requirements and safety guidelines
- Review existing and proposed traffic control setups to ensure strict compliance with the Manual of Uniform Traffic Control Devices for Canada (MUTCDC) and national standards
- Prepare, review, and professionally authenticate technical documents and drawings, including standards of practice and temporary traffic detour plans.
- Review and determine requests for traffic accommodation and detour plans for special events and major construction projects, providing recommendations for revisions
- Design and implement road closure requirements and traffic mitigation strategies for emergency situations to maintain network reliability
- Design road closure requirements for emergency situations to maintain network reliability
- Evaluate and analyze City wide traffic operational issues for all modes of travel including active modes
- Provide expert technical engineering support to solve complex problems for Traffic Technicians and other internal City teams
- Support the preparation and administration of the terms and conditions of contractual agreements for external engineering services
- Represent City Operations to provide information and technical feedback to other City Branches, Departments
- Support the preparation and administration of the terms and conditions of contractual agreements for external engineering services
- Prepare cost estimates for the installation, operation, rental, and removal of traffic control devices
- Conduct site inspections and field observations to inform your analysis and verify the effectiveness of traffic control measures
- Prepare revisions to technical and legal documents such as bylaws, guidelines and procedures for review
- Research and respond to technical inquiries from City Council, legal agencies, and the public, preparing reports and materials for Committee presentations
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