Senior Engineer, Transit Priority

JOB SUMMARY

Transit Service Planning is responsible for service and operations planning for bus, rail, and Para Transpo services (including route planning, bus stop planning, service frequency, scheduling, and bus type assignment), capital and operating budgeting for the department, transit fare policy, performance reporting, development of policies and long-range plans, establishment of service standards and design standards, delivery of the City’s transit priority program, and continuous improvement for departmental operations.

As the Senior Engineer, you have primary responsibility for all technical issues, detailed design, implementation and field monitoring of measures and strategies to improve the flow and reliability of transit service on the road network. This includes evaluating, developing and implementing transit priority measures, in keeping with requirements as set out in the Highway Traffic Act and Ontario Traffic Manual, and in a manner consistent with the goals of the Official Plan, Transportation Master Plan, and Transit Services business plans. Operational transit priority measures include reserved bus lanes along roadways and at intersections (queue jumps), traffic control signal priority and special traffic management techniques. The development and implementation of transit priority requires policy development, research, transportation modeling techniques, coordination with other programs, specialized equipment/procedure development, implementation and evaluation.

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE

Completion of 4 year university degree in Civil or Electrical Engineering

Minimum of 5 years of progressively responsible experience in transportation planning, design and/or operations, including:

• experience in transit priority strategies and equipment
• demonstrated ability to successfully develop and implement innovative and complex solutions and systems in the field of transportation engineering
• experience in evaluating transit operations
• experience in traffic control strategies and equipment

CERTIFICATIONS AND LICENCES

KNOWLEDGE

• Traffic control systems and equipment
• Principles of traffic engineering and control
• Transit priority strategies and methods
• Traffic engineering/modeling software
• The public transit system in the City of Ottawa
• Computer applications relevant to an engineering environment
• Project management principles
• State of the art transit control and operating systems such as AVL and APC systems
• TAC and AASHTO geometric design guidelines
• Ontario Traffic Manual, Canadian Capacity Guide and other manuals and guidelines related to traffic control signal equipment
• Official Plan and Transportation Master Plan
• Issues of smart growth and sustainable transportation
• Ontario Highway Traffic Act and City of Ottawa Traffic and Parking By-law
• Organization and structure of the City of Ottawa and the Transportation, Utilities and Public Works Department
• Must possess the training, experience and knowledge to organize the work and its performance
• Works in accordance with applicable health and safety legislation, policies and procedures, and all other legislation, policies and procedures relevant to the work
   

COMPETENCIES, SKILLS AND ABILITIES

• Use computers effectively to solve engineering problems
• Critical and innovative thinking
• Strong analytical skills
• Organize and plan a number of technical projects simultaneously
• Presentation skills
• Communicate effectively, both verbally and in writing
• Effectively lead and motivate technical staff
• Work under pressure and meet deadlines
• Must have strong interpersonal skills in order to obtain cooperation from and work effectively with others, both within and outside the corporation and with external agencies, such as the Ontario Ministry of Transportation
• Must be thorough, reliable and have high personal work standards
• Must be able to travel on public transit to experience the customers’ perspective