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YA Group

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501 - 1000 employees

Founded 1997

💼 Consulting

🏗️ Construction

🛡️ Insurance

💰 Private equity on 2021-09

Consulting • Construction • Insurance

YA Group is a global technical consulting firm that provides forensic, engineering, environmental, construction, and claims-related expert services to clients who need clarity in complex, high-stakes matters. Their offerings include accident reconstruction and biomechanics, forensic engineering and architecture, construction consulting and quantity surveying, environmental investigations, forensic accounting, litigation support and expert witness services, project and program management, owner’s representation, testing and laboratory services, and insurance claims consulting. The firm emphasizes technical excellence, interconnected multidisciplinary teams, rapid local response from a global expert network, and over 25 years of experience delivering services for construction, insurance, legal, government, and corporate clients.

📋 Description

• Review and analyze roadway and traffic design plans for highways, streets, and intersections. • Analyze as-built drawings, construction plans, and traffic control plans for compliance with contracts and engineering standards. • Research and evaluate traffic conditions using traffic counts, speed studies, accident history data, and roadway characteristics. • Determine safe and efficient traffic volumes based on roadway geometry and operating conditions. • Assess sight distance, roadway alignment, pavement conditions, hazards, and work zone traffic control. • Analyze traffic signal timing, phasing, maintenance, and intersection layout for operational performance and safety impacts. • Determine whether roadway features or traffic control elements contributed to vehicle, pedestrian, or bicycle accidents. • Review existing and proposed roadway signs, markings, and traffic control devices for compliance with standards. • Analyze traffic signal timing, phasing, maintenance, and intersection layout for operational performance and safety impacts. • Apply DOT standards, MUTCD guidelines, Engineering Policy Guides, and local design criteria in all analyses. • Prepare clear technical reports and engineering opinions for forensic and litigation purposes. • Serve as a consulting and testifying expert witness, including depositions and trial testimony. • Manage multiple projects, meet budgets and schedules, and support client relationships. • Provide technical guidance to junior engineers as needed. • Support business growth through ongoing client engagement and repeat work.

🎯 Requirements

• Degree in Civil Engineering or related field • 8+ years in traffic engineering with at least 4 years of forensic experience • Active PE & TE licenses (TE license only required for work in CA & OR) • Significant experience in traffic engineering, transportation engineering, or forensic traffic investigations • Strong knowledge of highways, roadways, intersections, traffic signals, signs, and traffic control systems • Experience completing traffic engineering projects with DOTs and public agencies • Proficiency with traffic analysis or simulation software (e.g. Traffic Sim) • Demonstrated expertise with DOT’s Engineering Policy Guide (EPG) • Strong technical report writing and verbal communication skills

🏖️ Benefits

• Employee-focused culture • Strong commitment to work-life balance • 100% Remote work • Flexible vacation & Paid holidays • Paid family care/sick leave • Parental leave • Comprehensive benefits • 401k w/match