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Job Title: Principal Traffic Engineer

Position Type: Permanent

Work Location: 1770 Iowa Avenue, Suite 100, Riverside, CA 92507

Pay Rate: $79.25/hr. on W2 With Benefits

Work Mode: Onsite

Shift Hours: 9:00AM to 5:00PM

Job Summary

We are seeking a confident and experienced Principal Traffic Engineer to join the Traffic Division in the San Diego office. This role will lead traffic engineering and planning projects, supervise technical teams, manage project schedules and budgets, and maintain strong relationships with clients and public agencies. The position offers opportunities for career growth, mentorship, and potential advancement to ownership.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and manage traffic engineering and planning projects across Southern California, with a focus on the San Diego County region.
• Supervise traffic designers, planners, CAD drafters, and technicians while providing technical direction and mentorship.
• Manage project schedules, budgets, contracts, fee proposals, and scopes of work.
• Develop and maintain strong relationships with clients, public-agency personnel, and internal multidisciplinary teams.
• Provide municipal traffic engineering services, including in-house traffic engineering support.
• Prepare and process final traffic engineering plans, including traffic signal, traffic control, and signing/striping plans.
• Prepare Traffic Impact Analyses (TIA), traffic studies, and other technical reports.
• Perform traffic engineering and planning analysis and provide independent technical recommendations.
• Ensure projects are completed efficiently, accurately, and in accordance with applicable standards and regulations.
• Apply knowledge of the California Vehicle Code (CVC), MUTCD, and Highway Capacity Manual (HCM) in traffic engineering projects.
• Utilize traffic engineering software such as HCS, Vistro, Synchro, and other related tools.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary project teams on significant infrastructure and community development projects.
• Support business development activities, client interactions, and preparation of proposals and project scopes.
• Provide leadership, independent decision-making, and technical expertise across all aspects of traffic engineering and planning projects.
• Support transit planning and design activities as needed.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering (BSCE) or related engineering discipline.
• California registration as a Professional Civil Engineer (PE) or Traffic Engineer.
• Minimum 7 years of experience in traffic engineering/planning, or equivalent of 12 years of industry experience.
• Minimum 5 years of management/supervisory experience overseeing traffic designers, planners, CAD drafters, and/or technicians.
• Recent Southern California traffic engineering experience, preferably within the San Diego County region.
• Experience supervising traffic engineering design teams.
• Proven experience managing project schedules, budgets, contracts, fee proposals, and scopes of work.
• Experience interacting with clients and public-agency personnel.
• Strong knowledge of municipal traffic engineering and planning practices.
• Experience preparing Traffic Impact Analyses, traffic studies, reports, and traffic engineering plans.
• Strong leadership, supervisory, communication, and decision-making skills.
• Ability to establish and maintain positive relationships with clients, agencies, and internal staff.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with HCS, Vistro, Synchro, and other traffic engineering software.
• Knowledge of the California Vehicle Code (CVC), MUTCD, and Highway Capacity Manual (HCM).
• Experience in transit planning and design.
• Strong project management and business development skills.
• Experience working on multidisciplinary engineering projects.
• Demonstrated ability to independently manage complex traffic engineering assignments and provide technical leadership.

About the Company

HonorVet Technologies is a veteran-owned IT staffing firm, ISO 9001 and ISO 27001 certified, working with federal agencies, state governments, and Fortune 500 enterprise clients across the US. What makes us different isn't a tagline it's the way we work. We don't forward resumes and hope for the best. We take the time to understand where a professional like you is headed and only reach out when we genuinely believe there's a fit worth exploring.

HonorVet Technologies is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to creating an inclusive workplace and consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, protected veteran status, marital status, citizenship status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.