The Washington State Department of Transportation’s Traffic Management Center (TMC) in Shoreline is seeking freshman, sophomores, and early admits to the Civil & Environmental Engineering Department to join their current team of TMC Operators. We are not seeking juniors at this time unless they have plans to attend graduate school at the UW in transportation. Pay starts at $16.00 per hour. Three to four positions are being filled now for the Spring quarter, beginning as soon as April 1st, but no later than April 8th, 2016.
This position requires a minimum of 15 hours per week during the school year and 1000 hours total for each year. 1000 hours is easily reached if an intern works 15 hours a week during the school year and full-time during the summer. This position may require you to work shifts starting as early as 5:30 AM or ending as late as 7:30 PM. Work hours are scheduled around your classes.
A TMC Operator’s primary responsibility is to operate and adjust WSDOT’s Intelligent Transportation System commonly known as Flow. These responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
- Identifying congestion, accidents, stalled vehicles and other problems that affect the operation of the Seattle area freeway system using closed circuit television cameras.
- Monitoring the State Patrol’s computer aided dispatch and scanner.
- Communicating with the media, State Patrol, WSDOT radio operators and engineers.
- Compiling, organizing and disseminating congestion information to the public through incident messages on the Internet, variable message signs, and highway advisory radio.
- Operating the Seattle area ramp metering system and assisting engineers in the maintenance and improvement of the system.
- Projects as assigned (past projects include ramp meter analysis, express lane analysis, preparation of traffic volume reports, and others)
The minimum requirement for this position is that the applicant be admitted to the Civil & Environmental Engineering Department. A successful candidate must be a highly motivated and responsible individual who has the ability to work alone and also as part of a team.
This is a great opportunity to get professional experience on your resume and helps with your job search much more than a few more years of fast food employment.
WSDOT engineers will be in More Hall for interviews and will be held in Rm 229 . You can sign up for an interview time by submitting the schedule below back to me with ALL the times you can make an interview. scottrut@uw.edu I will get back to you by March 21 in the late afternoon.
If you have any questions about the TMC you can email the supervisor of the TMC, Maan Sidhu, at: sidhum@wsdot.wa.gov. Contact Prof. Scott Rutherford if you have questions about the interview process.
Please bring three copies of your current resume and unofficial transcript to the interview. You can wear that you wear to school for the interview.
Best regards,
- Scott Rutherford P.E., PhD
Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Director, Sustainable Transportation Program
scottrut@uw.edu
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WSDOT INTERVIEW SIGN UP SCHEDULE (attached via email) Return to scottrut@uw.edu by Mar 21 5:00 PM