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Job Title:
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Systems Engineering
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Job Category:
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☐Management
☒Engineering
☐Specialist
☐Systems and Data Management
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Minimum Years of Experience/Position Level:
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5-10 Years/Senior-Level
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Applicable to:
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☒DOT
☒County
☒City
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☒MPO
☒Private
☒Toll Agency
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General Summary of Position / Purpose of Position
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This position is an engineering specialist that provides advanced engineering and technical guidance for systems engineering applications.
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Roles and Responsibilities
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1.0 Managerial
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% of Time
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- Direct and supervises staff.
- Meet regularly with employees to assign work, establish work objectives and timelines to ensure working objectives are met.
- Evaluate employees’ performance, during established time frames, throughout the year and at formal review periods.
- Motivate and train and/or ensure required training is available for staff.
- Communicate regularly with direct reports, both individually and in staff meetings.
- Ensure that all the paperwork required for processing pay documents and human resource matters, including performance appraisals, disciplinary actions, filing vacant positions and separations, are completed accurately and processed in a timely manner.
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10%
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2.0 Strategic Planning
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% of Time
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- Develop and implement transportation systems management and operations (TSMO) business and related plans to guide resource allocation and achieve unit performance targets.
- Collaborate with others in plan development, reporting plan results, linking performance targets to specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, time-bound, (SMART) objectives in staff expectations, identifying and making resource recommendations.
- Ensure funding and resources are utilized in the most cost effective and beneficial manner.
- Ensure the most current program elements, performance measures and functions are being implemented.
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10%
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3.0 Customer Service
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- Participate in meetings, on committees, task teams and other groups with internal and external customers to represent TSMO interests.
- Maintain professional contact with elected officials, private companies, public, government agencies, and officials as needed.
- Promote good public relations with the persons contacted while adhering internal policies.
- Provide accurate and timely responses to the public, contractors, and other agency personnel.
- Promote the resolution of outstanding technical and contractual issues.
- Ensure that team members and management are well informed of activities.
- Consider both the business and the technical needs of all customers with the goal of providing a quality product that meets the user needs.
- Communicate effectively (strong written and verbal communication skills) and work well with team members from diverse technical backgrounds.
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10%
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4.0 Project Management
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% of Time
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- Reduce the risk of schedule and cost overruns for projects
- Produce weekly status reports detailing project activities.
- Coordinate and develops project concepts, objectives, resource needs, and specifications.
- Define budget and schedule constraints.
- Manage budget and schedule for systems engineering tasks.
- Conduct project coordination and review meetings.
- Provide project coordination and supervision.
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25%
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5.0 Technical
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% of Time
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- Analyze engineering designs, specifications and test plans for systems and equipment based on customer/contract requirements.
- Ensure design best practice is followed.
- Lead the design of business processes for systems and operations solutions.
- Oversee, lead team / group activity, documenting results and related presentations as necessary.
- Develop engineering designs, specifications and test plans for systems and equipment based on customer/contract requirements.
- Support efforts for the analysis and review process for new proposed engineering software tools.
- Learn and apply standard engineering techniques and ensure that assigned designs follow appropriate regulatory codes.
- Assist in writing proposals that include job assignments, scopes of work, validation plans and procedures.
- Measure system performance.
- Make presentations before management and customers.
- Assist with trade-off analyses.
- Improve stakeholder participation.
- Deploy more adaptable, resilient systems, with verified functionality and fewer defects, and higher level of reuse from one project to the next.
- Help meet Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) Rule 940 when required.
- Apply systems engineering concepts.
- Define customer needs and required functionality early in the development cycle.
- Support integration of multiple systems and development of custom software.
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40%
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6.0 Other
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% of Time
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- Perform other duties as required.
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5%
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Education
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☐High School Degree
☐Technical Degree/Associate Degree
☐Bachelor’s Degree in Related Field
☒Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering; or
☒Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science
☐Bachelor’s Degree in Business
☐Bachelor’s Degree in Environmental Science
☐Bachelor’s Degree in Science, Economics, Statistics, or another Quantitative Field
☒Master’s Degree in Engineering (preferred but not required)
☐Master’s Degree in Engineering (preferred but not required)
☐Master’s Degree in Quantitative Field (preferred but not required)
☐PhD in Civil Engineering, Transportation Engineering, Electrical or Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field (preferred but not required)
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Certificates, Licenses, Registrations
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☐Registered Engineer in Training
☐Registered Professional Engineer
☐Professional Traffic Operations Engineer
☐Certified Information Systems Security Professional
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