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Job Description & Specification:
- Reporting to the Transportation Director.
- This role is for a Degree-qualified engineering professional with at least 15 years of progressive experience in the field of traffic engineering or civil (transportation) engineering or a related discipline. MSc and / or chartered status is desirable.
Key Responsibilities:
- Technical delivery and management of small, medium and large-scale transport assignments with minimal supervision, including the development and maintenance of strategic models.
- Working closely with project managers and other municipality staff to ensure timely completion of the necessary analysis, reports and plans as assigned.
- Undertake technical reviews of planning submissions, traffic impact assessment reports, traffic studies and other technical plans, documents, presentations or datasets in line with the internal submittal standards, and prevailing technical standards and planning requirements.
- Communicating the findings of such reviews on the corporate system(s), and other stakeholders as required, using the appropriate channels.
- Contributing to the development of policies, technical standards and guidance relating to Traffic Engineering or urban mobility, prepared according to the business needs and international good practice.
- Identifying opportunities for continuous process improvements.
- Knowledge sharing and driving technical innovation with colleagues everywhere.
- Preparing high-quality written reports and technical analyses with the ability to present outcomes to concerned parties.
- Advising on transportation matters.
- Ensuring deliverables adhere to prevailing QA/QS and document management protocols.
Job Requirements
Essential Requirements:
- In-depth experience in the field of traffic engineering.
- Very high levels of competency in operational modelling platforms including VISSIM, aaSIDRA, SYNCHRO, HCM.
- In-depth knowledge of Road Safety and Safety in Design principles, and contemporary best-practice roads safety initiatives.
- Experience with transport assessments, capacity theory and analysis techniques, urban planning and land development appraisals, parking management, master planning and public transport.
- Good knowledge of concept and preliminary roads design, including at-grade and grade-separated junctions.
- Experience in the concept design of parking and circulation layouts, walking and cycling facilities design, planning and design of traffic calming devices, public transport facilities (bus stops), signage and line-marking,
- Knowledge of the specification, collection, analysis and acceptability standards for surveys and data related to parking and traffic analysis.
- Strong collaborative behaviours to interface with overseas clients, other members of the local Transportation team, and other stakeholders.
- Excellent communication in written and spoken English, with a talent for persuasive speech and technical presentations to diverse and
- non-technical audiences.
- Well-developed skills in project management, technical delivery and resource management.
- Capable of communicating in both Arabic and English effectively, both written and spoken.
- The candidate should have experience of managing multidisciplinary engineering teams to deliver projects.
- Competence with Microsoft Office software.
- Familiarity with electronic document management and quality assurance systems.
- Desirable Requirements:
- Previous experience, and familiarity with trends and transport planning practices and standards.
- Knowledge of civil engineering design including concept and preliminary roads design.
