Trilon Group is hiring a Traffic Engineering Practice Lead to build and guide our traffic engineering practice in Pennsylvania. You will provide technical leadership on a range of transportation projects while helping to grow a strong local team for our expanding market. This role is ideal for an experienced traffic engineer focused on practice development and mentorship.
What You'll Do
- Lead traffic engineering tasks including traffic studies, capacity analysis, modeling, signal design, safety studies, and corridor evaluations.
- Prepare reports, technical memos, plans, and supporting documentation.
- Manage and oversee traffic components for roadway and planning projects, ensuring high-quality deliverables.
- Develop signal timing plans, ITS layouts, signing and pavement marking plans, and traffic control plans.
- Use analysis and modeling tools such as Synchro, HCS, VISSIM, SIDRA, or related software.
- Collaborate closely with roadway, structural, planning, survey, and environmental groups.
- Train, mentor, and support junior traffic staff.
- Participate in client meetings, presentations, and coordination with municipalities and state agencies.
- Support proposal development, scoping, and business development efforts as we expand our Pennsylvania presence.
- Ensure compliance with PennDOT, MUTCD, and AASHTO requirements.
What We're Looking For
- Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering, Transportation Engineering, or a related field.
- Professional Engineer (PE) preferred; ability to obtain PA PE if not already licensed.
- 15+ years of traffic engineering experience; prior consulting experience is required.
- Proficiency with traffic analysis tools such as Synchro, HCS, VISSIM, SIDRA, or similar.
- Strong understanding of MUTCD standards, PennDOT requirements, and traffic engineering principles.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
Nice to Have
- Experience working on PennDOT projects or with local municipal clients.
- PTOE certification.
- Experience contributing to or leading traffic teams in a consulting environment.
Technical Stack
- Synchro
- HCS
- VISSIM
- SIDRA
Team & Environment
You will join a talented staff of more than 650+ professionals and will collaborate closely with roadway, structural, planning, survey, and environmental groups.
Benefits & Compensation
- 401(k) with company match
- Health insurance with HSA option, Vision, Dental, Life
- Flexible schedule
- Paid time off
- Referral program
- Tuition reimbursement
- Catalytic Coaching - Employees draft a development plan aimed at improving contributions in their current job and increasing the potential for other opportunities.
Work Mode
This role is based locally in one of our Pennsylvania offices: Hermitage, Cranberry, or Waynesburg.
It is the policy of our company to follow equal employment opportunity procedures in compliance with federal, state and local criteria. We will provide all applicants for employment, and all employees, with equal opportunity without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, height, weight, marital status, arrest record, disability, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, military or veteran status, and/or any other protected classes covered by any local, state and federal laws.
