Requisition No: 880102
Agency: Department of Transportation
Pay Plan: SES
Position Number: 55011837
Salary: $118,296.09 - $153,089.06
Posting Closing Date: 07/27/2026
Total Compensation Estimator Tool762 / TRAFFIC OPERAIONSOPEN COMPETITIVE / PENDING VACANCY SELECTED EXEMPT SERVICEFULL-TIME CONTACT PERSON: Yulanda Allen CONTACT PHONE NUMBER: 813-975-4216CONTACT EMAIL ADDRESS: [email protected]HIRING SALARY RANGE: $ 4,549.85 - $5,888.04 / biweekly range $ 118,296.09 - $153,089.06 / annual rangeANTICIPATED ANNUAL SALARY: $138,577.92To ensure honesty and transparency, all applicants must provide their own work. Unless explicitly requested, the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools to assist with qualifying questions, work samples, or interviews is strictly prohibited, and any breach of this requirement will lead to the applicant being removed from consideration.
Candidates must be United States (U.S.) citizens, or lawfully authorized alien workers. Visa sponsorship is not available.
The Work You Will Do:Traffic Services Program Engineer / Traffic Operations
The Difference You Will Make:Through cooperation, coordination and collaboration among the OneFDOT team, you will be contributing to a strong and empowering culture of TRREC: Trust, Relationships, Respect, Empowerment, and Communication.
How You Will Grow:FDOT encourages our team members to grow through engagement, empowerment, training, and professional development. Through our agency's learning management system, you have access to hundreds of computer-based training and instructor-led courses.
Where You Will Work:Florida Department of Transportation
D7 - Headquarters
11201 McKinley Dr
Tampa, FL 33612
Your Specific Responsibilities:Directs and supervises staff and provides advanced engineering and technical guidance for the District Traffic Operations Office Traffic Services Section. Meets regularly with employees to assign work, establish work objectives and timelines to ensure working objectives are met. Evaluates employee's performance, during established time frames, throughout the year and at formal review periods. Motivates and trains and/or ensures required training is available for staff. Communicates regularly with direct reports, both individually and in staff meetings. Ensures that all the paperwork required for processing pay documents and personnel matters, including performance appraisals, disciplinary actions, filing vacant positions and separations, are completed accurately and processed in a timely manner.
Develop and implement Traffic Services business and related plans to guide resource allocation and achieve unit performance targets. Includes collaborating with others in plan development, reporting plan results, linking performance targets to SMART (Specific, Measureable, Achievable, Realistic and Time/cost/quality-based) objectives in staff expectations, identifying and making resource recommendations.
Participate in meetings, on committees, task teams and other groups with internal and external customers to represent Traffic Services interests. Includes providing useful commentary and review of work products. Includes correspondence and follow-up contact as needed.
Develop and manage consultant contracts and other types of agreements that support Traffic Services functions and/or relate to performance targets. Includes developing documentation for contract funding, request for proposal (RFP) and related documents, participation on technical review committees (TRC), evaluation of contract work products, consultant evaluation and invoice processing approval.
Perform engineering review and analysis of data and/or work products. Including documentation of findings and conclusions, participation in meetings and presentation of reviewed data and analysis. Signs and seals engineering documents as required.
The Successful Candidate will have the following required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:Knowledge of:- Knowledge of traffic engineering principles and practices.
- Knowledge of Management Principles and Practices.
- Knowledge of Traffic Operations Analysis and Study Techniques.
- Knowledge of Florida Department of Transportation Design Standards.
- Knowledge of Traffic Signal Timing and Phasing
Skills in:- Effective oral communication.
- Effective written communications.
- Interpreting and disseminating traffic engineering related data.
Ability to:- Collect, analyze, and interpret engineering data.
- Manage workload to produce on time resolutions to problems.
- Counsel and plan employee career development.
- Supervise people.
- Establish and maintain effective working relationships.
- Lead, manage, and work with diverse groups of people.
Licensure/Registration/Certification Requirements:Registration as a Professional Engineer with accordance with Chapter 471, Florida Statutes, or able to obtain registration by endorsement as a Professional Engineer in the State of Florida under Chapter 471, Florida Statutes, within six months from your appointment date.
The State's total compensation package for employees features a highly competitive set of employee benefits including:
- Health insurance (over 90% employer paid)
- $25,000 life insurance policy (100% employer paid)
- Dental, vision and supplemental insurances
- State of Florida retirement package
- 10 paid holidays a year
- Generous vacation and sick leave
- Career advancement opportunities
- Tuition waiver for public college courses
- A variety of training opportunities
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
For additional benefit information available to State of Florida employees, visit: https://www.mybenefits.myflorida.com/
SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS: You will be required to provide your Social Security Number to conduct required verifications. Male applicants born on or after October 1, 1962, will not be eligible for hire or promotion in the Career Service, or appointment in the Selected Exempt Service (SES) or Senior Management Service (SMS), unless they are registered with the Selective Service System (SSS) before their 26th birthday, or have a Letter of Registration Exemption from the SSS.
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