Senior Manager, Traffic Planning

Company: Disability Solutions
Location: Chicago
Posted on: September 3, 2024

Job Description:

DescriptionSALARY$130,240.38POSITION SUMMARYThe Senior Manager of Traffic Planning oversees staff to ensure street infrastructure and signage support safe, fast, and efficient bus operation on city streets. The manager coordinates with external agencies, primarily Departments of Transportation (DOTs), to ensure roadway design supports and prioritizes bus service, reviewing roadway redesign plans and leading CTA efforts such as the Bus Priority Zone project that advance bus priority measures. The position is responsible for CTA's nearly 11,000 bus stops and related signage, ensuring stop location and design meet standards, promote safety and ensure efficient operations. Ensures bus service is accessible to those with disabilities through improvements to signage and stop design. The position also manages and develops data sources supporting these efforts.QualificationsPRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Works to ensures roadway design supports and prioritizes bus service, primarily through working with area DOTs to promote and encourage the incorporation of bus priority measures into roadway plans and identifying improvements to bus stop location and design. Coordinates with City and internal departments on major construction projects impacting CTA service, working to mitigate impact on customers and develop routing alternatives.
• Manages CTA bus stops and related signage, ensuring stop location, signage and design meet standards and promote safe and efficient operations.
• Works to advance stop location and design improvements, including coordination with external agencies (primarily CDOT) to improve ADA-related accessibility of bus stops.
• Works with internal departments to ensure missing and damaged signage is replaced and addresses general feedback on bus stops from garages, the public, elected officials, etc.
• Coordinates on CTA bus priority efforts.
• Manages CTA's Bus Priority Zones project and related efforts, coordinating with internal departments, external agencies, and consultants to identify and advance bus priority measures on key bus routes to address sources of delay.
• Supports other agency bus priority measures such corridor-level bus priority efforts, transit signal priority, and queue jump signal implementation, among others.
• Identifies external projects that present opportunities for improvements to bus-related infrastructure and applies for grant funding to support efforts.
• Develops policy and standards around topics such as bus stop and roadway design and bus priority elements that ensure safe, fast, and efficient operation of CTA buses.
• Utilizes, manages, and develops data sources to support work on the responsibilities above. Data sources include stop-level ridership data, geospatial data on bus stops, streets and infrastructure, and bus speed, dwell time and stop utilization data, among others.
• Manages staff, coordinating among staff to support work on the responsibilities described above and developing staff skill sets to support and advance agency goals.
• Hires, trains, develops, monitors, and evaluates performance of staff. Reviews and recommends personnel actions for approval.
• Performs field work in relation to the above activities and performs other related duties as assigned.MANAGEMENT RESPONSIBILITIESReporting to this position are the following jobs:Job Title
  • Traffic Planner
  • Coordinator, Traffic PlanningCHALLENGES
    • Working to improve bus operations on roadways managed by external DOTs.
    • Coordinating across multiple internal and external groups to achieve goals and working with elected officials to meet community needs.EDUCATION/EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS
      • Bachelor's Degree in Civil Engineering, Transportation Planning, or Urban Planning, or equivalent field, or a combination of education and experience relating to this position.
      • At least 5 years of applicable experience with progressively increasing responsibilities.
      • Must possess a valid driver's license.PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS
        • Requires remaining in a stationary position for extended periods of time and constantly operating a computer and other office productivity machinery.
        • Service Area Requirement: Exempt (Non-Union) employees must live within the boundaries of the CTA Statutory Service Area either at the time of employment or within 6 months of beginning employment at CTA.KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND ABILITIES
          • General knowledge of the principals of urban street design and transit priority infrastructure.
          • General knowledge of transit operations, transit planning and basics of transit scheduling.
          • General knowledge of service area geography and CTA rail and bus system.
          • Ability to read roadway design plans, understand construction and capital program budgets and schedules, and analyze and interpret statistical data.
          • Ability to work with multiple disciplines and coordinate efforts across internal and external groups.
          • Working Knowledge of Microsoft Word, Excel, and Access software, Power BI, and ArcGIS software.WORKING CONDITIONS
            • General office environment
            • Some field work required to investigate roadway and bus stop conditions and bus operations.
            • May be required to work various extended or irregular hours in order to meet project deadlines.
            • This position is considered a "C-List" position under the "Revolving Door" prohibition within the State Officials and Employees Act (5 ILCS 430/5-45), which contains a number of post-employment restrictions CTA employees in C-list designated positions must follow. Among other requirements listed in this statute, CTA employees in C-list designated positions are required to follow State notification procedures to the Office of the Executive Inspector General prior to acceptance of any applicable non-State employment or may be fined significant penalties.EQUIPMENT, TOOLS, AND MATERIALS UTILIZED
              • Typical office equipment such as computers, printers, copy machines, and office supplies.
              • CTA non-revenue vehicles.Additional DetailsEmployees and/or union members will be given priority consideration in the hiring process, per the applicable labor contracts.Final salary will be determined in part by the qualifications of the selected candidate and may be higher or lower than target.Applicants, if hired,must comply with CTA's residency ordinance.CTA IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER No employee or applicant for employment will be discriminated against because of race, color, creed, religion, sex, marital status, national origin, sexual orientation, ancestry, age, unfavorable military discharge, disability or any other status protected by federal, state, or local laws; except where a bona fide occupational qualification exists We are committed to providing an inclusive environment for our workforce and supporting the communities we serve. CTA will make reasonable accommodations for the known disabilities of otherwise qualified applicants for employment as well as its employees, unless undue hardship would result. If you require an accommodation in the application or hiring process, please contact arc@transitchicago.com prior to the submission of your application or upon notification of your actual test date. CTA will work with you to determine if an accommodation can be provided.During the hiring process, CTA's Human Resources department will contact candidates with next steps . Failure to respond to these correspondences in a timely fashion may result in your application being closed out for non-responsiveness.Please click link below to review the benefits offered at the CTA.https://www.transitchicago.com/hrbenefits/

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