Assistant Civil Engineer - Traffic (Kansas City or Springdale, AR)

Burns & McDonnell’s Kansas City and/or NW Arkansas office is looking for an ambitious and talented Assistant Civil / Traffic Engineer to join our growing transportation planning team.

As an Assistant Civil / Traffic Engineer in our traffic group, you will work under the supervision of a licensed professional engineer (PE) and Professional Traffic Operations Engineer (PTOE) to assist multidisciplinary project teams to create world class designs for public and private clients on a variety of transportation and development projects.

Our civil / traffic engineers assist our transportation teams through each phase of the project development lifecycle (Feasibility, Schematic & Environmental, Design, and Construction). Projects range in type and scale from City/County arterial studies, innovative intersection designs and traffic impact assessments to billion dollar multi-level freeway designs, intelligent transportation system architecture, and traffic management planning.

What You'll Do\:

• Working with a close-knit team of multi-discipline professionals to ensure project success.
• Corresponding and/or meeting with clients, contractors, and vendors.
• Designing traffic control infrastructure (such as signing, striping, lighting, traffic signal, and Intelligent Transportation System plans).
• Developing traffic operations and safety studies, microsimulation traffic models, traffic impact analyses, and highway capacity analyses.
• Developing traffic phasing for traffic control plans.
• Developing skills in software such as MicroStation, AutoCAD, ArcGIS, HCS, Synchro, PTV Vissim, & OpenRoads.
• Performs other duties as assigned.
• Comply with all policies and standards.