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Job Description:

New England Traffic Practice Lead - Transportation Infrastructure

In a world of possibilities, pursue one with endless opportunities. Imagine Next!

When it comes to what you want in your career, if you can imagine it, you can do it at Parsons. Imagine a career working with intelligent, diverse people sharing a common quest. Imagine a workplace where you can be yourself. Where you can thrive. Where you can find your next, right now. We’ve got what you’re looking for.

Why Join Parsons?

The Mobility Solutions Business Unit provides planning, design, program management, construction management, and software solutions to a wide range of infrastructure clients, mainly in North America. We are an industry leader in successfully delivering complex, challenging, and high-profile infrastructure projects across all project delivery models, including integrated delivery (public-private partnership, design-build, construction management at-risk) and traditional delivery.

Position Overview:

The New England (NE) Traffic Practice portfolio consists of a strong base of business to support further growth of the team and we have a well-established reputation in our core markets. The Traffic lead will be involved in business development activities and supervise a team of traffic engineers supporting road and highway projects in the NE area as well as other projects across the United States. You will be a key member of the NE Leadership Team, promoting area goals, alongside colleagues serving as Discipline Leads and Project Managers and reporting to the Area Manager. This is a Seller/Doer role that plays a part in growing out traffic engineering business and team across NE with the DOT and with local municipal and transit agencies.

This job can be based in our Boston, MA office or East Hartford, CT office.

What You will Be Doing:

Prepare, coordinate, and supervise traffic engineering design, analysis and modeling tasks and provide traffic discipline support to other Discipline Leads and Project Managers.

Coordinate overall traffic backlog, schedules, budgets, and deadlines.

Train and manage traffic resources including staff workloads, career planning, individual development plans, including one-on-one conversations, salary recommendations, etc.

Actively engage with Traffic Engineering Technical Organization within Parsons to share or seek resources as needed.

Create a challenging professional environment of innovation, opportunity, development, and continuous improvement for the Traffic team focused on staff growth and succession planning.

Plan, monitor and ensure compliance with scope, schedule, and budgetary constraints on multiple projects.

Lead/support (as appropriate) the development of Traffic Engineering/Design portfolio in collaboration with the New England Leadership Team.

Serve as Traffic Discipline Lead on pursuits and opportunities with CTDOT, MassDOT, RIDOT, and other clients in New England.

Support Design-Build and major project in other Areas / Offices.

Additional Goals/Responsibilities:

Participate in Parsons’ Traffic Engineering Technical Organization to establish internal professional network. Infrastructure Technical Organization (ITO) facilitates seamless sharing of lessons learned, resources, expertise, and backlog across offices. Grow your stature within the ITO in the near/long term.

Support or lead traffic engineering tasks for other offices within the Northeast area including Pennsylvania.

Strategize and engage in hiring decisions to achieve organic growth. Identify and develop high-potential talent.

Participate in strategizing, storyboarding, writing, and reviewing proposals – become an integral part of the team’s success.

Participate in Business Development strategy meetings as needed.

Engage and serve in leadership positions within industry organizations, with specific subcommittee involvement at relevant New England organizations including ACEC, ITE, ASCE, and others. Seek opportunities to make presentations or write articles. Encourage others in the team to do the same.

Maintain current knowledge of project pipeline for key clients

What Skills and Experience You will Bring:

4-year degree in Civil Engineering (or related field) and 15 years or more of related work experience in traffic engineering and analysis.

Professional Engineer (PE) registration is required.

PTOE certification is highly desirable, but not required.

Experience interfacing with CTDOT, MassDOT, or other state DOT representatives in New England is essential

Solid foundational knowledge of basic traffic analysis and design software such as Synchro, Vissim, MicroStation and others.

Alternative delivery/design-build project experience is a plus.

A full-service engineering and construction firm, we work in diverse, collaborative teams, both within the company and with our partners and customers, to plan, design, build, and modernize infrastructure. We take special pride in projects and solutions that improve communities as well as people’s quality of life by promoting economic growth, enhancing mobility, and increasing sustainability and resiliency. Powered by our people, we provide the imagination necessary to support our customers’ visions—and to help them see new possibilities.

We value our employees and want our employees to take care of their overall wellbeing, which is why we offer best-in-class benefits such as medical, dental, vision, paid time off, Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP), 401(k), life insurance, flexible work schedules, and holidays to fit your busy lifestyle!

Minimum Clearance Required to Start:

Not Applicable/None

This position is part of our Critical Infrastructure team.

For more than 75 years, our experts have designed and delivered the critical infrastructure that connects and protects communities around the world. We work in diverse, collaborative teams, both within the company and with our partners and customers, to plan, design, build, and modernize infrastructure. We take special pride in projects and solutions that improve communities as well as people’s quality of life by promoting economic growth, enhancing mobility, and increasing sustainability and resiliency. Powered by our people, we provide the imagination necessary to support our customers’ visions—and to help them see new possibilities.

Salary Range: 

$117,000.00 - $210,600.00

We value our employees and want our employees to take care of their overall wellbeing, which is why we offer best-in-class benefits such as medical, dental, vision, paid time off, Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP), 401(k), life insurance, flexible work schedules, and holidays to fit your busy lifestyle!

Parsons is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility in the workplace. Diversity is ingrained in who we are, how we do business, and is one of our company’s core values. Parsons equally employs representation at all job levels for minority, female, disabled, protected veteran and LGBTQ+.

We truly invest and care about our employee’s wellbeing and provide endless growth opportunities as the sky is the limit, so aim for the stars! Imagine next and join the Parsons quest—APPLY TODAY!