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Midwest Traffic Practice Lead
Parsons Corporation
USD 140,700-253,300 / year + Equity
Posted on Apr 12, 2025
In a world of possibilities, pursue one with endless opportunities. Imagine Next!When it comes to what you want in your career, if you can imagine it, you can do it at Parsons. Imagine a career working with exceptional people sharing a common quest. Imagine a workplace where you can be yourself. Where you can thrive. Where you can find your next, right now. We’ve got what you’re looking for.
Job Description:
Parsons has been improving the region's infrastructure for more than 100 years. As a full-service engineering and construction firm, we serve as an extension of our customers’ staff to help plan, design, build, and modernize infrastructure that improves quality of life, promotes economic growth, enhances mobility, achieves sustainability and resiliency standards, and supports our customers’ visions.
We are looking for our next Traffic Practice Leader, to continue to facilitate growth in our Midwest portfolio by successfully delivering major highway projects in the region. The role for this position will be to serve as a key member of the Midwest leadership, promoting our goals and objectives, alongside colleagues serving as Discipline Leads and Project Managers and reporting to the Area Manager.
The ideal location for this position is our Indianapolis, IN office, but HYBRID and REMOTE options may be available for the right candidate.
What You’ll Be Doing:
- Prepare, coordinate, and supervise traffic engineering design, analysis and modeling tasks and provide traffic discipline support to other Discipline Leads and Project Managers
- Coordinate overall traffic backlog, schedules, budgets, and deadlines
- Train and manage traffic resources including staff workloads, career planning, individual development plans, including one-on-one conversations, salary recommendations, etc.
- Actively engage with Traffic Engineering Technical Organization within Parsons to share or seek resources as needed
- Create a challenging professional environment of innovation, opportunity, development, and continuous improvement for the Traffic team focused on staff growth and succession planning
- Plan, monitor and ensure compliance with scope, schedule and budgetary constraints on multiple projects
- Lead/support (as appropriate) the development of Traffic Engineering and TSMO Design portfolio
- Serve as Traffic Discipline Lead on pursuits and opportunities with DOTs and other clients in the Central Area (East, Mid, West)
- Support Design-Build and major project in other Areas/Offices
Additional Goals/Responsibilities:
- Participate in Parsons’ Traffic Engineering Technical Organization to establish internal professional network.
- Parsons Infrastructure Technical Organization (ITO) facilitates seamless sharing of lessons learned, resources, expertise, and backlog across offices. Grow your stature within the ITO in the near/long term
- Support or lead traffic engineering tasks for other offices within the Midwest states.
- Strategize and engage in hiring decisions to achieve organic growth.
- Identify and develop high-potential talent.
- Participate in strategizing, storyboarding, writing, and reviewing proposals – become an integral part of the team’s success
- Participate in Business Development strategy meetings as needed
- Engage and serve in leadership positions within industry organizations, with specific subcommittee involvement at relevant professional organizations including ACEC, ITE, ASCE, and others.
- Seek opportunities to make presentations or write articles. Encourage others in the team to do the same.
- Maintain current knowledge of project pipeline for key clients
What Required Skills You’ll Bring:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Civil Engineering (or related field)
- 15+ years of related work experience in traffic engineering and analysis
- Professional Engineer (PE) registration is required
- PTOE certification is highly desirable, but not required
- Experience interfacing with DOTs within the Midwest is essential
- Solid foundational knowledge of basic traffic analysis and design software such as Synchro, Vissim, Rodel, MicroStation and others
- Transportation Systems Management and Operations (TSMO) experience is desirable, but not required
Minimum Clearance Required to Start:
Not Applicable/NoneThis position is part of our Critical Infrastructure team.For more than 80 years, our experts have designed and delivered the critical infrastructure that connects and protects communities around the world. We work in collaborative teams, both within the company and with our partners and customers, to plan, design, build, and modernize infrastructure. We take special pride in projects and solutions that improve communities as well as people’s quality of life by promoting economic growth, enhancing mobility, and increasing sustainability and resiliency. Powered by our people, we provide the imagination necessary to support our customers’ visions—and to help them see what's next!Salary Range: $140,700.00 - $253,300.00We value our employees and want our employees to take care of their overall wellbeing, which is why we offer best-in-class benefits such as medical, dental, vision, paid time off, Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP), 401(k), life insurance, flexible work schedules, and holidays to fit your busy lifestyle!This position will be posted for a minimum of 3 days and will continue to be posted for an average of 30 days until a qualified applicant is selected or the position has been cancelled.Parsons is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, veteran status or any other protected status.We truly invest and care about our employee’s wellbeing and provide endless growth opportunities as the sky is the limit, so aim for the stars! Imagine next and join the Parsons quest—APPLY TODAY!Parsons is aware of fraudulent recruitment practices. To learn more about recruitment fraud and how to report it, please refer to https://www.parsons.com/fraudulent-recruitment/.