Description
Salary: $58,214 - $91,156
Position Grade: 16G
Department: Street Department
Job Type: Full-Time (Permanent)
Examination Number: EX1107
Location: 1900 Hampton Ave. - St. Louis, MO
Incumbents in this position are responsible for studying traffic patterns, designing traffic control systems, and programming and maintaining traffic control devices. This position oversees and manages the following programs: Cities Transportation and Mobility Master Plan (TMP), City of St. Louis Bike Plan, and Bike and Scooter Program.
Essential Functions and Responsibilities:
- Represents the Street Department on the Community Mobility Committee (CMC).
- Assists with reviewing project plans for approval and permits.
- Reviews and approves speed hump/bump requests.
- Participates in planning for traffic control and flow of traffic; meets with developers, city officials, consultants, contractors, and the general public.
- Provides testimony and correspondence regarding bike and pedestrian accidents.
- Researches funding opportunities and applies for funding for bike and pedestrian functions.
- Maintains records for bike and pedestrian accidents and crashes.
- Assists in resolving bicycling and walking traffic complaints from the public, City officials, and City employees.
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
- Exemplary customer service required. Clear communication is required to provide information on City processes, policies, and procedures.
- Requires the ability to exercise judgment, decisiveness, and quick thinking in situations involving a variety of generally pre-defined duties.
- Human Interaction: Requires the ability to provide guidance, assistance, and/or interpretation to others, such as coworkers, city officials, other city departments, and the public, on how to apply policies, procedures, and standards to specific situations.
- Data Utilization: Requires the ability to perform mid-level data analysis including the ability to audit, deduce, assess, conclude, and appraise.
- Equipment, Machinery, Tools and Materials Use: Requires the ability to operate, maneuver, and/or provide simple but continuous adjustment on various equipment and tools.
- Verbal Aptitude: Requires the ability to utilize a variety of advisory data and information.
- Mathematical Aptitude: Requires the ability to perform basic mathematical operations and interpret statistical reports.
- Functional Reasoning: Requires the ability to apply principles of rational systems and interpret instructions.
- Situational Reasoning: Requires the ability to exercise judgment and creativity in evaluating information.
- Environmental Factors: Tasks may risk exposure to adverse environmental conditions.
- Physical Requirements: Requires the ability to lift, push, and pull tools and equipment.
- Sensory Requirements: Requires the ability to recognize and identify similarities or differences between characteristics of colors.
Qualifications
A Bachelor's degree in Urban Planning, Transportation Planning, Traffic or Civil Engineering, or a directly related field from a nationally accredited college or university approved by the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET); plus three years of professional traffic engineering experience.
License: Incumbents must possess and maintain a valid driver's license while employed by the City of St. Louis.
Scoring Components and Their Weights: Experience and Training: 100%
May be Subject to:
- Background Investigation: Pass/Fail
- Medical Examination: Pass/Fail
Documentation of Academic Credentials must be Submitted Upon Request.
When completing the Employment History and the Educational/Training History sections of the Employment Application, please be as thorough as possible.
Veterans Preference Points: To be eligible for veteran's preference points, the applicant must submit a copy of their DD 214 Certificate of Release or Discharge from Active Duty.
City Residence Preference Points: City residents who pass an examination for a position in the classified service and do not receive any other preference will receive a five (5) point preference on a scale of 100 points on the exam.
Accommodations: If assistance with the job application is necessary based on a physical impairment, mental impairment, or otherwise, they should reach out to the Office on the Disabled.
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