Assistant Civil Engineer - Traffic (Kansas City or Springdale, AR)

Burns & McDonnell’s Kansas City and/or NW Arkansas office is looking for an ambitious and talented Assistant Civil / Traffic Engineer to join our growing transportation planning team.

As an Assistant Civil / Traffic Engineer in our traffic group, you will work under the supervision of a licensed professional engineer (PE) and Professional Traffic Operations Engineer (PTOE) to assist multidisciplinary project teams to create world class designs for public and private clients on a variety of transportation and development projects.  

Our civil / traffic engineers assist our transportation teams through each phase of the project development lifecycle (Feasibility, Schematic & Environmental, Design, and Construction). Projects range in type and scale from City/County arterial studies, innovative intersection designs and traffic impact assessments to billion dollar multi-level freeway designs, intelligent transportation system architecture, and traffic management planning.

What You'll Do:

• Working with a close-knit team of multi-discipline professionals to ensure project success.
• Corresponding and/or meeting with clients, contractors, and vendors.
• Designing traffic control infrastructure (such as signing, striping, lighting, traffic signal, and Intelligent Transportation System plans).
• Developing traffic operations and safety studies, microsimulation traffic models, traffic impact analyses, and highway capacity analyses.
• Developing traffic phasing for traffic control plans.
• Developing skills in software such as MicroStation, AutoCAD, ArcGIS, HCS, Synchro, PTV Vissim, & OpenRoads.
• Performs other duties as assigned.
• Comply with all policies and standards.

• A bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering or a related field from a recognized, accredited program. ABET accreditation strongly preferred.
• Master's degree in transportation or traffic engineering preferred.
• Prior internship and/or related consulting experience preferred.
• Basic knowledge in standard civil engineering techniques, principles and procedures.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to work methodically and analytically in a quantitative problem-solving environment and demonstrated critical
  thinking skills.
• Proficient computer skills (e.g. Microsoft Office Suite).
• Basic computer skills (e.g. AutoCAD, MicroStation, BIM (Revit), Civil 3D, HCS, Synchro, PTV Vissim), and civil analysis
  programs.
• Strong attention to detail, facilitation, team building, collaboration, organization and problem-solving skills.
• Demonstrated leadership skills.
• Engineers in Training-EIT Certification strongly preferred.
• Minimum of a 3.0 GPA strongly preferred.
• Involvement on campus or in the community preferred.
• Candidates must be legally authorized to work permanently (i.e., without time limitations, without restrictions or without
  need for work sponsorship) in the country where this position is located.