About the Role
VHB's Hauppauge, NY team is seeking a Traffic Engineering Project Manager to join their Transportation team, focusing on improving mobility, enhancing communities, and balancing development needs with environmental stewardship. The role involves working with a team of traffic engineers and transportation planners who prioritize technical excellence, career development, and collaborative problem-solving.
Responsibilities
- Manage traffic engineering, transportation planning, and/or safety projects and contracts.
- Attend and lead meetings with agencies, clients, consultant partners, and stakeholders.
- Develop new project opportunities, manage client relationships, and prepare and manage proposal submissions.
- Complete traffic safety and operational improvement studies for localized intersections and corridors.
- Lead development of traffic impact analyses (TIAs) or TIA reviews on behalf of municipalities.
- Provide analyses of traffic safety issues and crash reduction measures.
- Conduct field investigations to determine crash contributing factors and identify appropriate countermeasures.
- Oversee quality and contribute to complex technical decisions on a range of multimodal transportation engineering assignments.
- Address community traffic engineering and safety issues.
- Manage projects involving the design of traffic control devices (signs, markings, signals).
- Develop mobility solutions considering all users, including motorists, bicyclists, public transit users, and pedestrians of all ages and abilities.
- Work collaboratively with the team, providing leadership, mentoring, and direction to staff.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s Degree in Civil Engineering or related field of study required.
- Master’s degree a plus and may substitute for 1 year of experience.
- 8-11 years of professional experience in traffic/transportation engineering required.
- Experience with Long Island, NY region transportation projects preferred.
- Professional Engineer (P.E.) licensure required.
- Understanding of Vissim and Synchro preferred.
- Experience with SEQRA preferred.
Skills
- Excellent communication (written and oral) and interpersonal skills.
- Self-motivated with strong attention to detail.
- Strong writing skills for proposals, technical reports and memoranda.
- Ability to present at public meetings as part of project outreach.
- Ability to manage multiple projects and work independently.
- Understanding of effectively overseeing multi-disciplinary projects and teams.
- Experience managing projects and marketing transportation services.
- Motivated to lead and mentor junior team members.
- Familiarity with Long Island, NY region municipalities and agencies traffic operations and safety policies and practices.
Location
- Hauppauge, NY
Work Type
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- 8-11 years of professional experience
Education Level
- Bachelor’s Degree in Civil Engineering or related field
- Master's degree a plus
Salary/Compensations
- $120,000-170,000
Benefits
- Best-in-class benefits
- Flexible, hybrid work environment
About the Company
- VHB is a growing firm recognized for its commitment to improving mobility, enhancing communities, and balancing development with environmental stewardship.
- The company fosters a technology-empowered, people-driven, future-ready culture that values agility, innovation, and collaboration.
- VHB offers meaningful work on complex projects with real community impact, a collaborative and inclusive culture, and support for skill growth and leadership.
Equal Opportunity
- VHB is a proud Equal Opportunity Employer.
- Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or other characteristics protected by law.
