AsstDir TIM Operations

Job Description
Summary:
The Assistant Director of Traffic and Incident Management provides high level administrative, financial, and operational leadership to ensure roadway safety and policy compliance. This role manages budgeting, capital forecasting, and contract administration while supervising, mentoring, and developing personnel. The Assistant Director evaluates traffic operations to recommend engineering modifications and deploy safety improvements, including implementation of ITS equipment. The role also includes strategic planning, contract procurement and oversight, and may temporarily act as Department Director when needed. This is an essential employee position requiring CJIS certification and availability during emergencies or inclement weather.
Retention Bonus: $2000
Applicants are required to be eligible to lawfully work in the United States immediately. This position is not available for H1-B visa sponsorship.
Responsibilities:
Prepares the budget and manages operational funds, procures special equipment, negotiates vendor contracts, and forecasts multi-year capital plans to meet department staffing and resource needs.
Evaluates data and traffic operations to recommend engineering modifications, deployment of Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS), or other corrective actions, to improve long term roadway safety.
Supervise and mentor personnel, ensuring staff are properly trained.
Develop policies, conduct assessments, create training programs, resolve employee issues, and encourage employee involvement.
Manage contracts by maintaining reports, reviewing status, assisting with proposals and negotiations, and ensuring work progress aligns with schedules and budgets.
Participate in strategic planning and special projects and ensures policy compliance.
Requires the ability to handle job-related stress, including deadlines, interactions with customers, supervisors, and staff, multitasking, and managing high work volumes.
Qualifications:
Minimum:
Texas Professional Engineer (PE) license, or ability to obtain Texas Professional Engineering license within 6 months of hire.
9 years’ experience
Valid Texas driver’s license
Must be able to obtain and maintain NCIC/TCIC certification and complete CJIS Privacy and Security Training as required by state and federal regulations
Physical Requirements & Environmental Conditions
This role requires the ability to perform physically demanding tasks in a variety of environments and conditions (as applicable).
Physical Demands
Frequent: standing, walking, reaching, speaking, and hearing within normal ranges; full range of motion and visual acuity including close, distance, color, and depth perception.
Regular: lifting, carrying, pushing, pulling, balancing, and working with tools or equipment.
Frequent: sitting, stooping, squatting, twisting, manual dexterity, gripping, and reading.
Occasional: kneeling and crawling.
Rare: climbing of ladders, stairs, poles, or entering/exiting trucks or other vehicles.
Ability to lift up to 10 lbs. frequently and move objects up to 20 lbs. occasionally.
Work environment, weather conditions and emergency response
Duties may be performed indoors, outdoors, or on varied terrain (slippery, sloped, wet, unstable, or muddy surfaces).
Regular exposure to loud or noisy environments, mechanical equipment, fumes, airborne particles, vibration, and other environmental hazards.
Possible exposure to moving vehicles, hazardous chemicals, infectious agents, insects, noxious vegetation, snakes, and street‑adjacent work zones.
Work may occur in adverse weather such as rain, snow, sleet, heat, direct sun, dust, or mist.
The ability to respond promptly to operational or public works emergencies
NTTA is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability or veteran status.