Transportation Development Engineering Manager

Pay Range: $111,791 - $145,328 annual compensation

Job Posting Closing on: Thursday, March 27, 2025

Benefits for this position include: 11 Paid Holidays, Medical, Dental, Vision, Paid Time Off, Pension Plan, Professional Development Opportunities, and much more.

 The City of Fort Worth is one of the fastest growing large cities in the U.S. Our employees serve the needs of nearly 1,000,000 residents, promoting our values of exceptional customer experience, mutual respect, embracing our diversity, continuous improvement, ethical behavior, and accountability.

A Transportation Development Engineering Manager job is available with The City of Fort Worth Development Services Department, Infrastructure Division. This position is responsible for leading the Transportation Development team.  The Transportation Development team reviews various development applications for compliance with the Transportation Engineering Manual, Access Management Policy, Master Thoroughfare Plan and other transportation criteria & ordinances. 

• The position is full-time and located at new City Hall.
• After just six months, enjoy the freedom of 2 days remote work each week (subject to department approval and based on business needs)
• Depending on the unique design and construction issues, there may be occasional site visits.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree from an accredited college or university with major course work in civil engineering or a related field.
• Five (5) years of increasingly responsible engineering construction management experience including two years of administrative and supervisory responsibility.
• Possession of registration as a Professional Engineer in the State of Texas. If licensed in another state, continued employment will be contingent upon obtaining registration as a Professional Engineer within the State of Texas within six months of employment.
• Valid Driver's License.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Highly conversant with transportation engineering and general civil engineering fundamental principles & practices.
• Extensive Knowledge of transportation design manuals, including ITE Trip Generation manual, MUTCD, AASHTO Green Book, PROWAG, and other geometric roadway design manuals.
• Eight (8) or more years of work experience in local government initiatives or projects, either as a public sector employee or private consultant, including project management experience (scoping, budgets, schedules, and contract administration).
• Ability to efficiently distill highly complex processes and technical matters into effective communications and actionable plans.
• Demonstrated success in evaluating and streaming processes to optimize service delivery and resource allocation.
• Professional Traffic Operations Engineer (PTOE) certification.
• Proficiency with Synchro, SIDRA, and other traffic modeling software.

The Transportation Development Engineering Manager’s job responsibilities include:

• Interpret and apply the City’s Transportation Engineering Manual, Access Management Policy, subdivision ordinance, and other City requirements to a wide range of development projects and unique design scenarios.
• Review Traffic Impact Analysis submittals for new development projects and provide rough proportionality assessments of all qualifying developments.
• Review of various transportation related waiver requests.
• Provide technical guidance and leadership related to transportation engineering, streetlights, traffic safety, signage, and pavement markings.
• Prepare, update, and implement standard operating procedures. Monitor budgets and performance metrics, and implement process improvements.
• Coordinate on a variety of issues with management and executive staff, external agencies, residents, developers, and developer consultants.
• Maintain close coordination, and collaboration, with various divisions within the Development Services Department and Transportation & Public Works Department.

Working Conditions

Working conditions are mostly in an office environment. Moderately light physical effort. Occasionally required to push, pull or lift medium to heavy weights, and to stand, sit or walk uncomfortably for extended periods. Kneeling, bending at the waist, and reaching overhead, above the shoulders and horizontally, and climbing ladders, stairs to make necessary inspections. Moderate exposure to elements such as heat, cold, dampness, fumes, noise, dust, or grease. Intermittent exposure to stress as a result of human behavior and the demands of the position. Required travel to various sites within the City.

Physical Demands

Depending on assignment, positions in this class typically require touching, talking, hearing, seeing, grasping, standing, walking and repetitive motions. Sedentary Work – Depending on assignment, positions in this class typically exert up to 10 pounds of force occasionally, a negligible amount of force frequently, and/or constantly having to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects. Sedentary work involves sitting most of the time. Jobs are sedentary if walking and standing are required only occasionally and all other sedentary criteria are met.

Salary : $111,791 - $145,328