Research Associate

Job description

Job Description VTTI’s Center for Sustainable and Resilient Infrastructure and the Virginia Transportation Research Council seeks a qualified and ambitious research engineer to contribute to ongoing transportation safety research and help coordinate efforts between the two organizations in the Charlottesville area. As a seasoned engineer in all conventional aspects of the subject matter this position will be expected to independently plan and execute work that requires sound judgement in evaluating, selecting, and adapting standard techniques, procedures and criteria. Duties and responsibilities: - Plans research efforts, schedules equipment and resources, conducts experiments, writes proposals, reports, and papers, or coordinates detailed tasks as part of a major project in the field of transportation materials, pavements and asset management. - Projects may include field evaluations of pavement sections, monitoring of construction projects, data collection and analysis. - Performs work that involves conventional engineering practice but may include a variety of complex features such as conflicting design requirements, unsuitability of conventional materials, and difficult coordin...