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Job Description & Specification:
- Reporting to the Senior Traffic Engineer, the Traffic Engineer will work in the Transportation team.
- This role is for a Degree-qualified engineering professional with at least 10 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:
- Leading a team of traffic engineering professionals.
- Providing technical leadership in traffic engineering issues and projects.
- Leading 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 to the Director, on the Municipality’s 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 RAK colleagues everywhere.
Job Requirements
Essential Requirements:
- In-depth experience in the field of traffic engineering.
- High levels of competency in operational modeling platforms including VISSIM, aaSIDRA, SYNCHRO, HCM.
- Good 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.
- 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 concept and preliminary roads design, including at-grade and grade-separated junctions.
- 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.
