Capital Projects Team Leader (Transportation Planner IV)

Since 1977, the Fairfax County Department of Transportation (FCDOT) has served the Fairfax County community by enhancing mobility, safety, and the quality of life of residents, businesses, and visitors through planning, coordinating, funding, implementing, and sustaining a multimodal transportation system. FCDOT is seeking a motivated, highly qualified, and public service-oriented Capital Projects Team Leader to join the Active Transportation, Capital Projects, and Traffic Engineering Division. Under general supervision of the section chief, this position will lead a team responsible for providing overall coordination of complex Capital Projects plans and studies with other county, state and federal agencies, as well as residents and elected officials. This includes multimodal projects, such as intersection, roadway, pedestrian, bicycle, transit, and parking facilities. In a dynamic and quickly evolving environment, this position will provide a challenging and rewarding experience for an individual invested in achieving the county’s transportation goals.

Responsibilities include:

• Performing technical work requiring a high degree of competence in both technical and administrative aspects
• Managing a professional team and completing assignments related to multimodal transportation facilities, including intersection, roadway, pedestrian, bicycle, transit, and parking facilities:
  • Identifying need, location, scope, and cost
  • Developing and reviewing project engineering design plans, feasibility studies, and environmental documents
  • Preparing or managing project planning studies
  • Preparing or managing scopes of work for routine and complex county and VDOT transportation engineering design projects and programs
  • Reviewing traffic studies submitted to the county on highway and other facility designs
  • Managing and reviewing engineering consultant plans and studies
• Developing, overseeing, and monitoring program and project schedules; scheduling, modifying and organizing staff and other team resources to meet project deadlines; prioritizing, and delegating projects, studies, and tasks
• Assisting staff with contract management, including consultant selection, contract evaluation and negotiation, and contract approval
• Coaching employees through the performance evaluation process and helping establish development plans for employees
• Preparing and communicating technical reports, status reports, meeting summaries, letters, official items for Board of Supervisors’ consideration, and other documents, as required
• Preparing presentations for and serving as a subject matter expert at project-related public meetings, briefings for senior leadership and/or elected officials, and other audiences, as required to meet specific audience needs
• Attending other project-related meetings, both in-person and virtual, including occasional evenings and weekends

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:
Any combination of education, experience, and training equivalent to the following:
(Click on the aforementioned link to learn how Fairfax County interprets equivalencies for “Any combination, experience, and training equivalent to”)

Graduation from an accredited four-year college or university with a bachelor's degree in civil engineering, urban, regional or transportation planning, or a closely related field, plus five years of progressively responsible transportation planning related experience. The years of experience should include at least one year in the specific area of assignment (for e.g., SAS, Modeling, Facilities Maintenance, et al).

CERTIFICATES AND LICENSES REQUIRED:
Valid driver's license

NECESSARY SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS:
The appointee to this position will be required to complete a driving record check to the satisfaction of the employer.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• 5+ years of experience in transportation planning, civil engineering, and/or transportation design for multimodal transportation projects.
• Knowledge of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and experience interpreting and applying ADA requirements for active transportation facility design requirements.
• Experience preparing or reviewing capital project design plans and transportation studies.
• Experience performing or reviewing transportation and traffic analyses.
• Knowledge of and experience with budgeting, financial management, procurement, contract management, and reporting.
• Strong project management skills, ability to organize and coordinate multiple projects and assignments and establish priorities.
• Experience in data management and GIS information and analysis.
• Strong analytical skills, excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Possess any of the following licenses/certifications, such as: Member of the American Institute of Certified Planner (AICP); Professional Engineers License (P.E.);Professional Traffic Operations Engineer (PTOE); Project Management Professional (PMP);VDOT Locally Administered Projects (LAP) Certification
• Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with government officials, the development community, colleagues, and the general public.
• Experience preparing and making presentations to elected officials and the public.
• Experience in supervising professional transportation planners, engineers, and technicians.

Fairfax County is home to a highly diverse population, with a significant number of residents speaking languages other than English at home (including Spanish, Asian/Pacific Islander, Indo-European, and many others.) We encourage candidates who are bilingual in English and another language to apply for this opportunity.