Engineering Principal Associate I

Position Summary

Principal Associates at TEI are key team members who are expected to demonstrate leadership in projects, for clients, and within TEI in the following ways:

• Project Leadership entails managing, directing, and executing overall project work underneath a Principal-in-Charge and developing project scopes, fees, and schedules. This position requires developing comprehensive project management skills to maintain deadlines and project deliverables.
• Client Leadership involves working directly with clients for projects, developing relationships with clients, and maintaining them beyond the life of a project.
• Team Leadership at TEI recognizes there is great value in continual learning, from experts in our fields and from each other. As a Principal Associate you are encouraged to build your knowledge and skillset while helping grow the team members around you through mentorship and training

Examples of Projects & Responsibilities

As a Principal Associate in TEI’s engineering team, the following are examples of the types of projects, deliverables, and responsibilities you may expect, depending on the project and your particular skills:

• Preparing intersection and corridor traffic analyses
• Microsimulation of isolated intersections, corridors, and area networks
• Development of roadway cross-sections, schematic design, and PS&E production
• Reviewing site development plans and preparing Traffic Impact Analysis (TIA) reports
• Optimizing traffic signal timing plans, including use of priority and pre-emption
• Identifying and analyzing safety improvements, including use of the Highway Safety Manual
• Detailed design of traffic signals, on-street and off-street bikeways, sidewalk and pedestrian facilities, transit stops, and intersections focused on system safety
• Identify and follow project management standards and best practices
• Collaborate as a part of a team to appropriately staff projects and manage client work

Qualifications:

TEI requires a comprehensive and practical knowledge of transportation design elements including use of analytical judgment and decision-making abilities appropriate to the project. A successful candidate will have previous work in some or many of the following areas:

• Traffic signal timing plans and phasing optimization
• Trip Generation for mixed-use facilities
• Microsimulation of transportation facilities
• Intersection design (e.g. signalized intersections, innovative intersections, roundabouts)
• Applying best practices from industry standards and guides such as:
  • Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices
  • Highway Capacity Manual
  • AASHTO Green Book
  • NACTO Design Guides

Candidates should meet most of the following qualifications: :

• Professional Engineer in Texas (or the ability to obtain Texas reciprocity within six months)
• 6+ years of experience, with at least 1 year of project management experience
• Excellent written, verbal, and other communication skills
• Organizational skills and the ability to manage time and multiple tasks
• Demonstrated analytic and problem-solving ability
• Demonstrated skills with Microsoft Office Suite
• Demonstrated skills in MicroStation and/or other CAD software
• Demonstrated skills in traffic modeling software (e.g. Synchro and/or VISTRO)
• Experience with VISSIM is a plus

How to apply:

Please email a cover letter and resume as a combined PDF document to careers@teiconnects.com or use the submission form below.

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