Perform technical traffic and transportation tasks.
FULL PURPOSE OF CLASSIFICATION
The purpose of this classification is to perform technical traffic and transportation tasks including: reviewing and analyzing capital design and construction plans; reviewing and analyzing development and redevelopment plans; design of transportation projects, analysis of improvements to traffic operations and safety for motorists and pedestrians; project compliance with requirements of the GDOT PDP process; managing and/or monitoring City of Roswell projects in the Transportation Capital Improvement Program; managing the transportation assets of the City, operating traffic management systems, supervising support staff and junior level engineers, coordination with other City departments, consultants, contractors, other governmental agencies, developers, and utility companies; and preparation of applications for grant funding.
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS
The following duties are normal for this position. The omission of specific statements of the duties does not exclude them from the classification if the work is similar, related, or a logical assignment for this classification. Other duties may be required and assigned.
Designs and/or reviews and prepares comments for capital design and construction projects; evaluates project proposals and develops priority criteria and ranking; conducts site visits to perform field investigation; reviews the capital improvement element of the budget.
Review and resolve project design issues, schedule and budget, tracks project status, attends project meetings including meetings with design consultants, state and federal agencies, and other local governments to communicate and coordinate project tasks.
Coordinate right of way and utility needs on capital projects; coordinates and/or performs right-of-way research, investigations, and tracking.
Performs field investigations of roads and intersections for signage, pothole and erosion control issues; records complaints and problems brought by residents and businesses; identifies and determines solutions to issues; reports to supervisor to plan problem resolution.
Prepares and implements plans for bike and pedestrian facilities; develops projects to implement bike loop, develops sidewalk priority criteria; coordinates the private to public street requests.
Reviews and prepares comments for site development plans and accompanying reports as relates to transportation issues, including site investigation, technical research, report preparation, meeting attendance, review team coordination, and tracking. Reviews and analyzes traffic impact studies.
Performs GIS analysis of transportation related issues and preparation of project databases, graphics and maps.
Develops project concepts and designs and prepares and/or supervises design drawings of transportation improvements. Design may include drainage.
May supervise, direct, and evaluate assigned staff, processing employee concerns and problems, directing work, counseling, disciplining, and completing employee performance appraisals.
Assists with contract procurement process; assists with preparation of requests for proposals and construction bid packages; reviews and supervises work of contracted engineering firms and/or in-house engineering consultant.
Coordinates transportation programs with GDOT, ARC, GRTA; reviews development proposals, permit applications, and construction plans; coordinates transportation plans with other governmental agencies.
Assists with budget preparation for assigned division; monitors expenditures to ensure compliance with approved budget; determines capital equipment needs for division; reviews and approves budget items for purchase.
Maintains a comprehensive, current knowledge of applicable policies, procedures, codes, regulations and standards; conducts research and maintains an awareness of new issues, methods, equipment, trends and advances in the profession; reads professional literature to stay up to date with best practices; maintains professional affiliations; participates in continuing education activities; attends meetings, conferences, workshops and training sessions as appropriate.
Seeks out best practices literature and software and copies of excellent reports and plans to keep in a library for division reference. Fosters a working environment in which teamwork and excellence is promoted, expected and routinely provided.
Attends meetings, serves on committees, and makes presentations as needed; participates on review committees, policy committees, safety committees, or other committees; represents the department at public meetings and community events.
Communicates with supervisors, City Administrator, Mayor and City Council, and other departments as needed to coordinate work activities, review status of work, exchange information, or resolve problems; responds to requests for service or assistance.
Communicates with various groups and individuals to gather and provide information regarding transportation issues; responds to citizen requests and concerns; meets with developers, consultants, and engineers on projects; coordinates with other governmental agencies.
Prepares or completes various forms, reports, correspondence, time cards, supply lists, or other documents.
Receives and reviews various forms, reports, correspondence, equipment operating manuals, procedures, handbooks, reference materials, manuals, or other documentation; reviews, completes, processes, forwards or retains as appropriate.
Performs administrative tasks to support the daily activities of the department and division; prepares related reports and documents; maintains and updates transportation improvement plans; maintains and updates sidewalk priority list; coordinates City participation in regional issues; prepares and distributes agendas for meetings.
Assists in seeking funding resources to support projects and plans; prepares applications for project funding; prepares grant applications; monitors compliance with guidelines of grants awarded to the City.
Coordinates, attends, and participates in various meetings; attends and represents the Department in public meetings including City Council, Planning Commission, Design Review Board, and other public meetings; attends bike and pedestrian regional meetings; coordinates public involvement meetings; attends intergovernmental meetings; attends planning conferences; attends neighborhood meetings.
Operates a personal computer, printer, fax machine, copier, phone system, measuring wheel, calculator, engineering scale, light table, tape measure, and other equipment as necessary to complete essential functions, to include the use of word processing, spreadsheet, and other system software utilized by the department.
ADDITIONAL FUNCTIONS
Performs other related duties as required.
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
Bachelors degree in Civil Engineering required with concentration in Transportation; P.E. license in Georgia preferred; four to six years experience in roadway design, transportation engineering, traffic engineering, or related field, or Masters degree in Civil Engineering and three years of experience or any equivalent combination of education, training, and experience which provides the requisite knowledge, skills, and abilities for this job. Must possess and maintain a valid Georgia driver’s license.
Must know how to operate Georgia DOT’s road design software.
PERFORMANCE APTITUDES
Specific Knowledge, Skills, or Abilities: Must be able to learn, comprehend, and apply all City or departmental policies, practices, and procedures necessary to function effectively in the position. Must have a thorough understanding of and ability to interpret codes and ordinance. Must possess thorough knowledge of transportation engineering practices and methods. Must have the interpersonal communication ability to interact with a wide variety of individuals, groups, and personalities in resolving development and application issues.
Data Utilization: Requires the ability to review, classify, categorize, prioritize, and/or analyze data. Includes exercising discretion in determining data classification, and in referencing such analysis to established standards for the purpose of recognizing actual or probable interactive effects and relationships.
Human Interaction: Requires the ability to apply principles of persuasion and/or influence over others in coordinating activities of a project, program, or designated area of responsibility.
Verbal Aptitude: Requires the ability to utilize a wide variety of reference, descriptive, and/or advisory data and information.
Mathematical Aptitude: Requires the ability to perform addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, and to solve higher order equations; ability to calculate decimals and percentages; may include ability to perform mathematical operations with fractions; may include ability to compute discount, interest, and ratios; may include ability to calculate surface areas, volumes, weights, and measures.
Writing Skills: Requires ability to write clearly and concisely, with the ability to write persuasively on deadline.
Functional Reasoning: Requires the ability to apply principles of rational systems; to interpret instructions furnished in written, oral, diagrammatic, or schedule form; and to exercise independent judgment to adopt or modify methods and standards to meet variations in assigned objectives.
Situational Reasoning: Requires the ability to exercise judgment, decisiveness and creativity in situations involving evaluation of information against measurable or verifiable criteria.
ADA COMPLIANCE
Physical Ability: Tasks require the ability to exert very moderate physical effort in light work, typically involving some combination of stooping, kneeling, crouching and crawling, and which may involve some lifting, carrying, pushing and/or pulling of objects and materials of moderate weight (12-20 pounds).
Sensory Requirements: Some tasks require the ability to perceive and discriminate colors or shades of colors, sounds, depth, texture, and visual cues or signals. Some tasks require the ability to communicate orally.
Environmental Factors: Essential functions are regularly performed without exposure to adverse environmental conditions.
FULL PURPOSE OF CLASSIFICATION
The purpose of this classification is to perform technical traffic and transportation tasks including: reviewing and analyzing capital design and construction plans; reviewing and analyzing development and redevelopment plans; design of transportation projects, analysis of improvements to traffic operations and safety for motorists and pedestrians; project compliance with requirements of the GDOT PDP process; managing and/or monitoring City of Roswell projects in the Transportation Capital Improvement Program; managing the transportation assets of the City, operating traffic management systems, supervising support staff and junior level engineers, coordination with other City departments, consultants, contractors, other governmental agencies, developers, and utility companies; and preparation of applications for grant funding.
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS
The following duties are normal for this position. The omission of specific statements of the duties does not exclude them from the classification if the work is similar, related, or a logical assignment for this classification. Other duties may be required and assigned.
Designs and/or reviews and prepares comments for capital design and construction projects; evaluates project proposals and develops priority criteria and ranking; conducts site visits to perform field investigation; reviews the capital improvement element of the budget.
Review and resolve project design issues, schedule and budget, tracks project status, attends project meetings including meetings with design consultants, state and federal agencies, and other local governments to communicate and coordinate project tasks.
Coordinate right of way and utility needs on capital projects; coordinates and/or performs right-of-way research, investigations, and tracking.
Performs field investigations of roads and intersections for signage, pothole and erosion control issues; records complaints and problems brought by residents and businesses; identifies and determines solutions to issues; reports to supervisor to plan problem resolution.
Prepares and implements plans for bike and pedestrian facilities; develops projects to implement bike loop, develops sidewalk priority criteria; coordinates the private to public street requests.
Reviews and prepares comments for site development plans and accompanying reports as relates to transportation issues, including site investigation, technical research, report preparation, meeting attendance, review team coordination, and tracking. Reviews and analyzes traffic impact studies.
Performs GIS analysis of transportation related issues and preparation of project databases, graphics and maps.
Develops project concepts and designs and prepares and/or supervises design drawings of transportation improvements. Design may include drainage.
May supervise, direct, and evaluate assigned staff, processing employee concerns and problems, directing work, counseling, disciplining, and completing employee performance appraisals.
Assists with contract procurement process; assists with preparation of requests for proposals and construction bid packages; reviews and supervises work of contracted engineering firms and/or in-house engineering consultant.
Coordinates transportation programs with GDOT, ARC, GRTA; reviews development proposals, permit applications, and construction plans; coordinates transportation plans with other governmental agencies.
Assists with budget preparation for assigned division; monitors expenditures to ensure compliance with approved budget; determines capital equipment needs for division; reviews and approves budget items for purchase.
Maintains a comprehensive, current knowledge of applicable policies, procedures, codes, regulations and standards; conducts research and maintains an awareness of new issues, methods, equipment, trends and advances in the profession; reads professional literature to stay up to date with best practices; maintains professional affiliations; participates in continuing education activities; attends meetings, conferences, workshops and training sessions as appropriate.
Seeks out best practices literature and software and copies of excellent reports and plans to keep in a library for division reference. Fosters a working environment in which teamwork and excellence is promoted, expected and routinely provided.
Attends meetings, serves on committees, and makes presentations as needed; participates on review committees, policy committees, safety committees, or other committees; represents the department at public meetings and community events.
Communicates with supervisors, City Administrator, Mayor and City Council, and other departments as needed to coordinate work activities, review status of work, exchange information, or resolve problems; responds to requests for service or assistance.
Communicates with various groups and individuals to gather and provide information regarding transportation issues; responds to citizen requests and concerns; meets with developers, consultants, and engineers on projects; coordinates with other governmental agencies.
Prepares or completes various forms, reports, correspondence, time cards, supply lists, or other documents.
Receives and reviews various forms, reports, correspondence, equipment operating manuals, procedures, handbooks, reference materials, manuals, or other documentation; reviews, completes, processes, forwards or retains as appropriate.
Performs administrative tasks to support the daily activities of the department and division; prepares related reports and documents; maintains and updates transportation improvement plans; maintains and updates sidewalk priority list; coordinates City participation in regional issues; prepares and distributes agendas for meetings.
Assists in seeking funding resources to support projects and plans; prepares applications for project funding; prepares grant applications; monitors compliance with guidelines of grants awarded to the City.
Coordinates, attends, and participates in various meetings; attends and represents the Department in public meetings including City Council, Planning Commission, Design Review Board, and other public meetings; attends bike and pedestrian regional meetings; coordinates public involvement meetings; attends intergovernmental meetings; attends planning conferences; attends neighborhood meetings.
Operates a personal computer, printer, fax machine, copier, phone system, measuring wheel, calculator, engineering scale, light table, tape measure, and other equipment as necessary to complete essential functions, to include the use of word processing, spreadsheet, and other system software utilized by the department.
ADDITIONAL FUNCTIONS
Performs other related duties as required.
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
Bachelors degree in Civil Engineering required with concentration in Transportation; P.E. license in Georgia preferred; four to six years experience in roadway design, transportation engineering, traffic engineering, or related field, or Masters degree in Civil Engineering and three years of experience or any equivalent combination of education, training, and experience which provides the requisite knowledge, skills, and abilities for this job. Must possess and maintain a valid Georgia driver’s license.
Must know how to operate Georgia DOT’s road design software.
PERFORMANCE APTITUDES
Specific Knowledge, Skills, or Abilities: Must be able to learn, comprehend, and apply all City or departmental policies, practices, and procedures necessary to function effectively in the position. Must have a thorough understanding of and ability to interpret codes and ordinance. Must possess thorough knowledge of transportation engineering practices and methods. Must have the interpersonal communication ability to interact with a wide variety of individuals, groups, and personalities in resolving development and application issues.
Data Utilization: Requires the ability to review, classify, categorize, prioritize, and/or analyze data. Includes exercising discretion in determining data classification, and in referencing such analysis to established standards for the purpose of recognizing actual or probable interactive effects and relationships.
Human Interaction: Requires the ability to apply principles of persuasion and/or influence over others in coordinating activities of a project, program, or designated area of responsibility.
Verbal Aptitude: Requires the ability to utilize a wide variety of reference, descriptive, and/or advisory data and information.
Mathematical Aptitude: Requires the ability to perform addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, and to solve higher order equations; ability to calculate decimals and percentages; may include ability to perform mathematical operations with fractions; may include ability to compute discount, interest, and ratios; may include ability to calculate surface areas, volumes, weights, and measures.
Writing Skills: Requires ability to write clearly and concisely, with the ability to write persuasively on deadline.
Functional Reasoning: Requires the ability to apply principles of rational systems; to interpret instructions furnished in written, oral, diagrammatic, or schedule form; and to exercise independent judgment to adopt or modify methods and standards to meet variations in assigned objectives.
Situational Reasoning: Requires the ability to exercise judgment, decisiveness and creativity in situations involving evaluation of information against measurable or verifiable criteria.
ADA COMPLIANCE
Physical Ability: Tasks require the ability to exert very moderate physical effort in light work, typically involving some combination of stooping, kneeling, crouching and crawling, and which may involve some lifting, carrying, pushing and/or pulling of objects and materials of moderate weight (12-20 pounds).
Sensory Requirements: Some tasks require the ability to perceive and discriminate colors or shades of colors, sounds, depth, texture, and visual cues or signals. Some tasks require the ability to communicate orally.
Environmental Factors: Essential functions are regularly performed without exposure to adverse environmental conditions.