Senior Traffic Engineering Project Manager

Ardurrais seeking a Senior Traffic Engineering Project Manager to join our Central Region team! We are open to candidates in Houston, Austin, Dallas, and San Antonio, Texas!

Ardurra is a multidisciplinary civil engineering services firm which provides broad-based solutions tailored to the specific needs of the public and private sector. We leverage the depth of our professional and technical expertise, as well as our integrated structure, to deliver practical, innovative solutions for our clients.

We have been creating opportunities for our employees to develop both personally and professionally. As a result, our team has contributed to some of the nation’s most important infrastructure projects. These are projects that can positively impact people’s lives.

Primary Function

The Senior Traffic Engineering Project Manager will lead and deliver traffic engineering projects for municipal, county, and DOT clients throughout Texas. This role will provide technical leadership, manage project scope, schedule, and budget, support business development efforts, and mentor junior staff.

The ideal candidate will possess strong traffic engineering expertise, experience managing multidisciplinary projects, and a desire to help grow Ardurra's Transportation practice throughout the region.

Primary Responsibilities

• Serve as Project Manager and/or Traffic Engineering Task Lead on transportation projects for municipal and DOT clients.
• Manage project scope, schedule, budget, and overall delivery.
• Perform and oversee traffic studies, capacity analyses, safety studies, and traffic impact analyses.
• Develop signing and pavement marking plans, traffic signal plans, and maintenance of traffic plans.
• Support Traffic Systems Management and Operations (TSMO) and Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) projects.
• Perform crash analyses, signal timing studies, and operational evaluations.
• Coordinate with clients, regulatory agencies, and multidisciplinary project teams.
• Mentor and develop junior engineers and technical staff.
• Support proposal development, statements of qualifications, and business development efforts.
• Maintain strong client relationships and identify opportunities for continued growth.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering or related engineering discipline.
• Professional Engineer (PE) license in Texas required.
• Professional Traffic Operations Engineer (PTOE) certification is preferred
• ITS and TSMO experience
• 10+ years of experience in traffic engineering and transportation design.
• Strong understanding of traffic engineering principles, traffic operations, and project management.
• Experience with traffic analysis and modeling software such as Synchro, HCS, Vissim, Aimsun, Visum, or similar platforms.
• Experience with signing and pavement marking design, traffic signal design, and traffic control plans.
• Strong communication, technical writing, and leadership skills.

Why Ardurra?

While Ardurra offers competitive compensation and rich benefits programs, it is our culture that truly sets us apart from our peers. We nurture a family-like culture, striving to create a work environment that is enjoyable, challenging and rewarding but also fun. We are acutely focused on developing our staff, whether through our internal Ardurra Academy or through our industry-leading Leadership program. We have made a deliberate and focused commitment to nurture a people-centric culture where people are: valued as individuals; supported in their professional and career development with multiple, varied career paths; provided the tools and resources to be successful, engaged, and satisfied in their work; and positive benefits, time-off programs, and flexibility to help maintain a healthy balance between work and home.

Ardurra is an Equal Opportunity/ Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, gender identity or sexual orientation.

NOTICE TO THIRD PARTY AGENCIES:

Ardurra does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruiters or employment agencies. In the absence of a signed Agency Agreement, Ardurra will not consider or agree to payment of any referral compensation or recruiter fee. If a resume or candidate is submitted to any hiring manager without a previously signed agreement, Ardurra reserves the right to pursue and hire those candidate(s) without any financial obligation to the recruiter or agency. These candidates will be considered property of Ardurra. We’re not currently looking to add any more agencies to our list of approved vendors, so please do not contact any of our managers or recruitment team with sales calls or details of your candidates.

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