MISSISSIPPI GULF COAST

Neel-Schaffer is not just a place to work, it is a promise of a living, dynamic environment where people collaborate, innovate, build enduring relationships, excel, and grow professionally in a strong culture of ownership. Do you have the desire to learn? The drive to excel and thrive in an engaged, client focused environment?

An Engineering News-Record Top 250 Engineering Design, Planning and Construction Management firm, Neel-Schaffer has an opportunity for a Traffic/Transportation Engineer to work in one of our Mississippi Gulf Coast offices, either in Biloxi, Gulfport, Hancock County, or Pascagoula.

We are an employee-owned firm seeking an engineer with the desire to grow personally and professionally while working in a creative and collaborative environment to help deliver transportation projects and perform traffic studies throughout Mississippi. The successful candidate will provide transportation/traffic engineering services including traffic impact studies, traffic signal timing, traffic modeling and traffic operations, and help develop other leading-edge technology projects.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Develop and optimize traffic signal timing and coordination plans
• Conduct and implement traffic signal timing plans
• Model complex traffic operations conditions involving multiple transportation modes
• Interact with clients
• Assist in preparation of traffic and ITS planning and operations studies
• Take ownership of projects from start to finish
• Perform field observation work when necessary

Education and/or Experience Requirements:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree (preferred) in civil engineering from an ABET EAC accredited program
• Experience in traffic operations: 1 year (preferred)
• Experience in traffic modeling software: 1 year (preferred)
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Self-motivated, detail-oriented professional with strong organizational skills
• Knowledge of and experience with Synchro/SimTraffic, Tru-Traffic or other applicable traffic modeling software
• Knowledge of and experience with Microsoft Office products

Required License or Certification:

• Fundamentals of Engineering
• Professional Engineering License (preferred)
• Professional Traffic Operations Engineer certification (preferred)

Equal Opportunity Employer