Traffic Engineer/1029/2A

Role overview

Key responsibilities

• Prepare and review Temporary Traffic Management Plans and Traffic Diversion Plans.
• Coordinate diversions, road and lane closures, detours, and construction access.
• Ensure compliance with RTA requirements, approved drawings, project specifications, and road-safety standards.
• Inspect installation of signs, barriers, cones, lighting, and safety devices.
• Coordinate with RTA, consultants, construction teams, subcontractors, utility agencies, and stakeholders.
• Review traffic-impact studies, traffic-flow data, junction layouts, road markings, and signage plans.
• Monitor construction-zone traffic and recommend congestion and safety improvements.
• Coordinate traffic signals, ITS, pedestrian diversions, and emergency access.
• Prepare method statements, risk assessments, drawings, permits, and authority submissions.
• Obtain and track diversion, lane-closure, and road-work approvals.
• Investigate incidents and implement corrective and preventive measures.
• Maintain traffic-management records and prepare progress and compliance reports.

Qualifications and experience

• Required experience: 10–15 years.
• Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering, Transportation Engineering, or a related discipline.
• Relevant traffic engineering and traffic-management experience on roads, highways, or infrastructure projects.
• UAE/GCC experience is required; RTA roads or Dubai infrastructure project experience is preferred.
• Strong knowledge of temporary diversions, road safety, signage, road markings, and traffic-control devices.
• Ability to review traffic layouts, traffic-management drawings, and construction-stage diversion plans.
• Proficiency in AutoCAD or MicroStation; traffic-analysis software knowledge is advantageous.
• Strong coordination, communication, reporting, and problem-solving skills.
• Valid RTA or Dubai traffic-management certification, where required, is advantageous.
• RTA highways, interchanges, junction improvements, utility works, signals, ITS, and major Dubai/UAE road-project experience are preferred.

Role skills

• Traffic engineering and management; temporary traffic plans; diversion planning; RTA coordination and approvals.
• Traffic impact assessment; road closures; traffic signs and road markings; construction-zone safety.
• Traffic signals and ITS coordination; pedestrian and emergency access planning; site inspection and compliance monitoring.