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Senior Traffic Signals and Lighting Engineer

EXP
Atlanta, GA Full Time
POSTED ON 4/3/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 6/2/2025

At EXP, we’re driven to provide innovative solutions for the world’s built and natural environments. As a team of engineers, architects, designers, scientists, creators and a community of professionals, we bring diverse and talented people together to solve the world’s most complex challenges. Here, you join a team that leverages differences, harnesses their entrepreneurial spirit in an employee-owned company, that believes diversity is what gives us strength, seeks sustainable results and shares ambitions for each other, our clients and the communities we are part of and serve. To be a part of EXP means to have your own experience, while staying connected to a global network of professionals, who believe we are a part of something bigger. Together, we are EXP.

Are you ready to design your future?

Be our next Senior Traffic Signals and Lighting Engineer to be located in Atlanta Georgia

Your work environment at EXP

In this role, you will be a part of the Transportation and Infrastructure team

What a day at EXP has in store for you

  • Lead project teams and direct subject matter experts, and third-party partners to design and implement traffic control systems and roadway lighting projects.
  • Deliver quality projects on schedule and meet the budget and financial requirements established for the projects
  • Provide quality assurance and quality control oversight.
  • Prepare technical reports and cost estimates which include the creation of functional and technical specification documentation.
  • Prepare and review Traffic Signals and Roadway Lighting PS&E Design
  • Requires experience with 
    • roadway lighting, 
    • traffic signals, 
    • electrical substations and 
    • distribution systems, 

 

  • Proposal Development
  • Traffic Signal warrants and traffic studies development and documentation
  • Writing and reviewing technical reports.
  • Work on transportation projects and other related projects associated with electrical power and perform routine electrical engineering assignments, as the Project Engineer or Project Manager taking responsibility for the expected results.

 

  • Focus on traffic signals and lighting, and Intelligent Traffic Systems (ITS), including real-time traffic information, adaptive signal control, closed circuit television (CCTV), and variable message signs (VMS)
  • Working with senior staff when dealing with difficult, complex and unusual matters and decisions.
  • Performing independent studies, analyses, interpretations and conclusions.
  • Working independently with little supervision, depending on the complexity of the assignment.
  • Liaising with clients, contractors, consultants, municipal staff, and other stakeholders.
  • Continuing own technical skills development and propagation of those skills to others.
  • Coaching, mentoring and developing junior and intermediate traffic signal and lighting design employees.

What your experience looks like

  • Bachelor's Degree in Transportation, Transportation Engineering, Systems Engineering, Electrical Engineering or related field. Master's degree is a plus.
  • 12 years of related experience and responsibilities delivering Traffic Signals and Systems, and Lighting solutions for state highway authorities.
  • Experience and/or knowledge of the National Electrical Codes (NEC).
  • PE license in Georgia required, PE licensing in adjacent southeastern states a plus
  • Experience with design and implementing
    • Traffic Signal Systems
    • Inter-Connected Traffic signals
    • SCADA Systems and Traffic monitoring systems and rooms
    • Intelligent Transportation Systems Architecture
    • Dynamic Passenger Information (DPI) Systems
    • Roadway, Pedestrian and Interchange lighting systems 

 

  • Knowledge of industry/regulatory codes and standards (CSA, OBC, NFPA, AREMA and IEEE standards).
  • Experience with electrical design tools/software such as ETAP, and SKM 
  • Knowledge of electrical calculations (short circuit, load flow, protection coordination, arc flash, cable sizing, and lighting design)
  • Experience and understanding of FHWA National ITS Architecture Standard and its implementation is a plus
  • Experience with Microsoft Office, including Word, Excel and PowerPoint.
  • Strong technical writing, analytical and communication skills.
  • Detail-oriented with an emphasis on quality work products.
  • Experience with conceptual plans, specifications and proposal development
  • GDOT experience required as a consultant engineer, and other southeastern state DOT experience desirable

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