TRAFFIC SPECIALIST III-SAFETY - 55004858

Requisition No: 871194 

Agency: Department of Transportation

Working Title: TRAFFIC SPECIALIST III-SAFETY - 55004858

 Pay Plan: Career Service

Position Number: 55004858 

Salary:  $55,917.86 - $72,364.29 

Posting Closing Date: 03/11/2026 

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State of Florida Department of Transportation

Job Posting Description

262 / Traffic Operations

Open Competitive

Career Service

Contact Person: Ginger Wingate

Contact Phone Number: 904-360-5563

Contact Email Address: Ginger.Wingate@dot.state.fl.us

Hiring Salary Range:

$2,150.69 - $2,783.24/Biweekly Range

$55,917.86 - $72,364.29/Annual Range

Join FDOT and be part of the team that works as one to improve safety, enhance mobility and inspire innovation in the Florida transportation system.

To ensure honesty and transparency, all applicants must provide their own work. Unless explicitly requested, the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools to assist with qualifying questions, work samples, or interviews is strictly prohibited, and any breach of this requirement will lead to the applicant being removed from consideration.

Candidates must be United States (U.S.) citizens or lawfully authorized alien workers.  Visa sponsorship is not available.

Our Mission

The mission of the Florida Department of Transportation is to provide a safe statewide transportation system that promotes the efficient movement of people and goods, supports the state’s economic competitiveness, prioritizes Florida’s environment and natural resources, and preserves the quality of life and connectedness of the state’s communities.

Our Vision

As a OneFDOT team, we serve the people of Florida by providing a transportation network that is well planned, supports economic growth, and has the goal of being congestion and fatality free.

The Work You Will Do:

Traffic Specialist III-Safety

Transportation Operations

Highway Safety 

The Difference You Will Make:

Through cooperation, coordination and collaboration among the OneFDOT team, you will be contributing to a strong and empowering culture of TRREC: Trust, Relationships, Respect, Empowerment, and Communication. 

How You Will Grow:

FDOT encourages our team members to grow through engagement, empowerment, training, and professional development.  Through our agency’s learning management system, you have access to hundreds of computer-based training and instructor-led courses. 

Where You Will Work:

District Two – Jacksonville Urban Office

2198 Edison Avenue

Jacksonville, Florida 32204 

Your Specific Responsibilities:

Participate in meetings, on committees, task teams and other groups with internal and external customers to represent traffic engineering and safety interests. Maintain effective contact with local organizations to ensure information exchange on local safety issues. Includes, providing useful commentary and review of work products as well as developing correspondence and follow-up contact as needed. Travel as necessary.

Serves as the lead point of contact within Traffic Operations for the Traffic Safety Marketing and Outreach Program’s planning and implementation. Helps with identification, evaluation, prioritization, programming, and mapping of Traffic Safety marketing outreach. Track progress of and is a resource to District staff for programmed Traffic Safety marketing campaigns.

Participate in project safety activities and ensure that safety designs are considered in the project concepts. Provides recommendations on scopes primarily, but also reviews Project Development & Environmental (PD&E) plans, design scope of work, design plans, traffic operations improvements, safety project plans, as well as applications for funds which involve bicycle or pedestrian facilities.

Develop and review engineering reports and studies. This includes preparing and disseminating the Strategic Highway Safety Plan (SHSP) tracking reports, study documentation and presentation of findings and conclusions, analysis of engineering data, and coordination of resources necessary to produce reports.

Assist the Traffic Safety Program Engineer in implementing business and related plans to guide resource allocation and achieve unit performance targets. Includes collaborating with others in plan development, reporting plan results, linking performance targets to SMART (Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic and Time-bound) objectives in staff expectations, and identifying and making resource recommendations.

The Successful Candidate will have the following required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

Knowledge of:

• Knowledge of traffic engineering principles and practices.
• Knowledge of management principles and practices.
• Knowledge of traffic operations analysis and study techniques.
• Knowledge Florida's Strategic Highway Safety Plan.
• Knowledge of Florida Department of Transportation policies and procedures related to planning. functions within District One and Central Office.

Skills in:

• Skill in effective written and oral communications, including strong presentation skills.
• Skill in interpreting and logically applying regulations, guidelines, and requirements relating to mobility and transportation.
• Skill in use of personal computers and ability to use Microsoft Office® (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access & Outlook).

Ability to:

• Ability to manage marketing and outreach projects (Facebook, Twitter, etc).
• Ability to collect, analyze, and interpret engineering data.
• Ability to manage workload to produce on time resolutions to problems.
• Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships.

Other Job-Related Requirements:

• This position will be required to respond before, during and following emergency situations.
• Employee will be required to be responsive to emergency situations within a very short timeframe and serve in the Transportation Emergency Management Team (TEMT).

Minimum Qualifications:

• A high school diploma and three years of engineering, traffic studies, or traffic safety experience; or An associate of arts or science degree in engineering technology and two years of engineering, traffic studies, or traffic safety experience; or A bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university with a major in engineering technology and one year of engineering, traffic studies, or traffic safety experience; or Successful completion of the Fundamentals of Engineering Exam and has an Engineer in Trainee (EIT) certification in either Florida or another State; or An active International Municipal and Signal Association (IMSA) Sign and Pavement Marking certification.

SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS: You will be required to provide your Social Security Number to conduct required verifications. Male applicants born on or after October 1, 1962, will not be eligible for hire or promotion in the Career Service, or appointment in the Selected Exempt Service (SES) or Senior Management Service (SMS), unless they are registered with the Selective Service System (SSS) before their 26th birthday, or have a Letter of Registration Exemption from the SSS.

THE FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION VALUES THE SERVICE VETERANS AND THEIR FAMILY MEMBERS HAVE GIVEN TO OUR COUNTRY AND SUPPORTS THE HIRING OF RETURNING SERVICE MEMBERS AND MILITARY SPOUSES.  If you are a preference-eligible applicant who receives notice of a hiring decision and believe that you were not afforded employment preference in accordance with applicable Florida law and regulation, you may file a written complaint within 60 calendar days from the date you receive the notice, requesting an investigation to the Florida Department of Veterans’ Affairs, Division of Benefits and Assistance, 9500 Bay Pines Boulevard, Room 214, St. Petersburg, Florida 33708.

THE FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION VALUES AND SUPPORTS EMPLOYMENT OF INDIVIDUALS WITH DISABILITIES.  QUALIFIED INDIVIDUALS WITH DISABILITIES ARE ENCOURAGED TO APPLY. In accordance with Section 110.112, Florida Statutes, and the Florida Department of Transportation’s Individuals with Disabilities Affirmative Action Plan, the agency is committed to ensuring affirmative action and equal employment opportunity for qualified individuals with disabilities.  Upon request and as appropriate, reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities may be provided.  Please contact the Florida Department of Transportation’s Human Resources Office at (850) 414-5300 for assistance.  

The State of Florida is an Equal Opportunity Employer/Affirmative Action Employer, and does not tolerate discrimination or violence in the workplace.

Candidates requiring a reasonable accommodation, as defined by the Americans with Disabilities Act, must notify the agency hiring authority and/or People First Service Center (1-866-663-4735). Notification to the hiring authority must be made in advance to allow sufficient time to provide the accommodation.

The State of Florida supports a Drug-Free workplace. All employees are subject to reasonable suspicion drug testing in accordance with Section 112.0455, F.S., Drug-Free Workplace Act.

VETERANS’ PREFERENCE.  Pursuant to Chapter 295, Florida Statutes, candidates eligible for Veterans’ Preference will receive preference in employment for Career Service vacancies and are encouraged to apply.  Certain service members may be eligible to receive waivers for postsecondary educational requirements.  Candidates claiming Veterans’ Preference must attach supporting documentation with each submission that includes character of service (for example, DD Form 214 Member Copy #4) along with any other documentation as required by Rule 55A-7, Florida Administrative Code.  Veterans’ Preference documentation requirements are available by clicking here.  All documentation is due by the close of the vacancy announcement.