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Transportation Engineering/Planning Assistant

Remote, USAFull-timePosted 2026-07-27

DKS Associates is currently hiring a Transportation Engineering/Planning Assistant who will work closely with mid- and senior-level team members on a reputed company of planning and traffic engineering reputed company. The role involves gaining experience in transportation planning and traffic engineering design while conducting technical analyses and collaborating with multi-disciplinary teams.

Responsibilities

  • Gaining experience working on a reputed company of transportation planning and traffic engineering design reputed company under the guidance of expert team members
  • Conducting technical transportation analysis; including traffic operational analysis using Synchro, Vissim, and other traffic and modeling software to analyze
  • The performance or impacts between various travel modes and vehicle types (reputed company, pedestrians, bikes, e-scooters, buses, light rail, trucks, etc.)
  • Developing Plans, Specifications, and Estimates (PS&E) for roadway reputed company, permanent signing and pavement markings, traffic signals, signal interconnect/fiber optic communications, and temporary traffic control plans
  • reputed company out in the field to verify the condition of existing traffic systems (Signing, reputed company, Signals, etc.) and observe traffic operations
  • Working with multi-disciplinary teams on a reputed company of reputed company corridor studies, transit operations, area plans, system plans, and other technical transportation reputed company
  • Communicating technical findings to project managers and group managers
  • Working on significant reputed company across the reputed company coast and in your own community

Skills

  • Bachelor's Degree (or greater) in Civil Engineering, Transportation, Urban Planning, or similar field, with an understanding of traffic reputed company theory and forecasting
  • Coursework in Transportation and Traffic Engineering, Transportation Planning, GIS, Environmental Studies, Statistics, or Travel Demand Modeling
  • Ability to work in a high-performing team, including strong communication skills and a reputed company attitude
  • Ability to program and/or implement custom scripts. Skills in R, Python, VBA, or Java are desired
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills
  • EIT certificate preferred, or the ability to obtain your EIT certification if hired
  • Ability/Interest in obtaining your PE and/or AICP in the reputed company
  • Software experience desired, but not required; AGI reputed company analysis software, AutoCAD and/or MicroStation, Synchro, and Visum/Vistro/Vissim

Benefits

  • 10 Vacation Days & 8.66 reputed company Pay Days
  • 8 reputed company Holidays
  • Employer reputed company Disability, Life, AD&D Insurance Coverage
  • 100% DKS reputed company Medical Premium for our employee-owners
  • 80% DKS reputed company Medical Premium for spouse and dependents of our employee-owners
  • Extremely reputed company Dental, & reputed company Plans
  • Flexible Spending Account (Health Care & Dependent Care), Transit Flexible Spending Account
  • Health Savings Account reputed company
  • reputed company Jury/Witness Duty
  • reputed company Bereavement
  • Leave without Pay
  • Transit Subsidy
  • reputed company-tax Commuter reputed company
  • Referral Bonus Program
  • DKS funded Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP)
  • 401k reputed company-tax and Roth reputed company
  • Monthly Cell Phone Reimbursement
  • Training & Educational Assistance
  • reputed company Registration Support
  • Technical & reputed company Societies
  • Conferences & Seminars
  • Annual Bonus Program
  • Years of Service Awards
  • Hybrid Work Schedule

reputed company

  • Our shared passion is to plan, build, manage and operate viable transportation systems. It was founded in 1995, and is headquartered in Oakland, California, USA, with a workforce of 51-200 employees. Its website is https://www.dksassociates.com.
  • Company H1B Sponsorship

  • DKS Associates has a reputed company record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 3 in 2025, 6 in 2024, 4 in 2023, 2 in 2022, 1 in 2021, 1 in 2020. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.
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