Senior Professional Engineer / Project Manager - Traffic Engineering

Bloomington, Minnesota / Duluth, Minnesota Surface Transportation – Traffic Engineering /Full Time (40) /HybridJoin TKDA as a Senior Professional Engineer / Project Manager - Traffic and help lead the delivery of transportation solutions that improve safety and mobility throughout Minnesota and across the country. You'll apply your technical expertise, project leadership, and client service skills while helping expand our traffic engineering services and build on our growing presence in the transportation industry. This role offers a unique opportunity to influence both project delivery and the direction of TKDA's traffic engineering practice. You'll work alongside engineers, designers, and technicians delivering traffic operations, transportation safety, traffic studies, and transportation system design for state, county, and local agencies and design-build contractors. This position offers the opportunity to lead projects and mentor staff across both traffic operations and traffic design. Candidates may bring deeper expertise in one area while collaborating across a comprehensive range of traffic engineering services. As a senior member of the group, you'll partner with the Traffic Group Manager to manage projects, strengthen client relationships, pursue new work, and mentor staff while supporting the continued growth of the practice. The role can be shaped around a combination of project management, business development, technical leadership, and mentoring based on the successful candidate's strengths. We take a seller-doer approach to business development. You'll partner with Surface Transportation leaders to maintain and expand client relationships, identify project opportunities, develop proposals, and represent TKDA in client and industry settings. Depending on your experience and interests, you may take a larger role in pursuit strategies, client engagement, and business growth. For this opportunity, we are seeking a qualified candidate who currently resides or plans to relocate within a regular commuting distance of our office.

Experience leading traffic engineering projects in traffic design, traffic operations, or a combination of both, including coordination with multidisciplinary teams throughout planning, design, and/or construction. Experience managing multiple projects, including responsibility for scope, schedule, budget, staffing, client coordination, project delivery, and coordination of technical staff workloads. Experience mentoring staff, providing technical oversight, and supporting technical development. Experience supporting business development through client relationship management, opportunity identification, proposal development, interviews, or related activities, with demonstrated success supporting or securing new project opportunities. Experience with one or both of the following areas: Traffic Design: Experience developing plans and specifications for signing, pavement markings, construction staging and temporary traffic control, traffic signals, and/or roadway lighting. Working knowledge of design software such as Bentley OpenRoads Designer or AutoCAD Civil 3D.Traffic Operations: Experience with traffic data collection, traffic forecasting, operations analysis, safety evaluations, traffic studies, and/or simulation modeling. Working knowledge of tools such as Synchro/SimTraffic, Highway Capacity Software (HCS), Vissim, Rodel, SIDRA, or similar analysis software. Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Office applications (Excel, Word, Outlook).Strong interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills. Preferred

Upon receiving a formal offer, you will get a personalized Total Compensation Overview (TCO) to see how everything adds up and what it looks like to be part of our community. TKDA is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, or veteran status, gender identity, or any other characteristics protected by law. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees, all applicants are strongly encouraged to apply. All applicants must be authorized to work in the United States for any employer without current or future visa sponsorship needs or requirements. TKDA does not sponsor any type of employment visas, including but not limited to H‐1B, F‐1 OPT/CPT, TN, or other work authorization programs.*Pre-Employment Screening*Upon acceptance of a conditional offer of employment, the selected candidate will be required to complete a standard pre-employment background screening, which consists of Social Security verification, educational verification, review of criminal convictions, and driving history.*Notice to Recruiters and Placement Agencies* TKDA will not accept unsolicited resumes from recruiters or placement agencies unless a service agreement is in place. In the event TKDA receives an unsolicited resume without a service agreement in place, TKDA will not be obligated to pay a service fee of any amount nor will TKDA be held liable to terms or conditions under any agreement of any kind that has not been authorized in writing by a TKDA officer.