Ability To Work:
1. A minimum of five years of increasingly responsible professional experience in traffic or civil engineering that included project management; or,
2. equivalent combination of training, education, and experience that would provide the required knowledge and abilities.
Registration as a professional civil and/or traffic engineer in the State of California is desirable but not required.
Knowledge of: the principles and practices of civil engineering/project management and the ability to apply them to the planning, design, construction and maintenance of transportation improvement and traffic management projects; team building techniques appropriate to groups composed of County staff, outside agencies and stakeholders; current federal, state, and County policies and requirements for land use, zoning, and comprehensive planning; principles and practices of business and public administration; research, analytical, and data collection techniques; principles and practices of management, supervision, and training; federal and state regulations related to the project; and budget administration; current traffic modeling and simulation software and techniques.
Job Description: Project Managers are distinguished from departmental managers by primary assignment of highly skilled and specialized project management of time-limited highly technical projects. Project Managers are also distinguished from departmental managers by management of multi-disciplinary teams made up of professionals from all sectors of the County, external consultants, citizen participation advisors, members assigned from other governmental agencies, non profit organizations, and the private sector.
The Project Manager, Traffic Management is further distinguished from the Project Manager, Surface Treatment Program in that the former is responsible for traffic engineering, including signal design/timing, roadway/intersection geometrics, and for operations of the County's Traffic Management Center, while the Project Manager, Surface Treatment Programs is responsible for Surface Treatment Grant application and administration, for establishing priorities and making technical/engineering decisions related to road surface rehabilitation and reconstruction, and for managing the surface treatment component of the Road Maintenance Annual Plan.
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