Senior Transportation Planner

Ref: TRSPLEB-2017-03

Deadline of Application: 28-02-2018

Role Name / Designation: Senior Transportation Planner
Division / Region: Infrastructure
Sector / Geography: Transportation
Department / Area: Roads & Highways/Transport Planning
Section: Transport Planning and Traffic Engineering
Reporting Supervisor: Senior Manager-Transport Planning & Traffic Engineering
Duty Station: Beirut, Lebanon

Key Responsibilities Areas and Activities Of the Role:

• Conduct data collection for transportation planning and traffic engineering projects in coordination with project teams (e.g. traffic counts, etc.)

• Closely work with Traffic Modelers for the development of traffic models, network simulations for transport planning and traffic engineering

• Closely work with Traffic Modelers for the calculation of trip generation and origin-destination matrices, and calculating and analyzing traffic volumes

• Prepare drawings, including circulation and parking plans, signage etc.

• Prepare transportation and traffic impact studies reports

• Validate and review transport and traffic impact studies with clients and authorities

• Perform peer review on other teams’ design deliverables and review and comment on deliverables prepared by junior team members

• Support Project Managers in managing project budget and resource allocation

• Support Project Managers in managing changes in project scope, schedule or budgets and manage variation orders and claims accordingly

Knowledge, Skills, Competencies and Experience

Qualification, Technical Skills and Competencies required to Execute this Role:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Civil Engineering

• Graduate Degrees in Transport Planning, Traffic Engineering / Management or related topics are preferred

• Chartered Professional Engineering certification or equivalent is preferred

• Knowledge and proven track record of transport planning and traffic engineering

• Understanding of international engineering standards and codes

• Proficiency in transport / land use planning, traffic modeling, ITS and other information systems

• Familiarity with traffic modeling software, such as VISUM, VISSIM, Synchro, MXROAD, SIDRA, HCS, AutoTURN, CUBE etc.

• Strong operational modeling skills.

• Strong quantitative and analytical skills

• Strong communication skills

• Proficiency in spoken and written Arabic and English, French is a plus
  

Experience Required to execute this Role:

• 5+ years of experience in the transport planning and traffic engineering in a top tier regional / multinational engineering consultancy firm

• Experience with development of traffic impact studies and traffic engineering plans

• Exposure to global best practices, trends and technologies in transport planning and traffic engineering

• Experience in the Middle East is preferred