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Reporting directly to VTTI's Executive Director, the Director of the Division of Freight, Transit, & Heavy Vehicle Safety (DHVY) at VTTI is a critical senior leadership role that directly impacts VTTI's mission of “saving lives, enhancing efficiency, and protecting the environment to improve transportation through research and development, education, and helping implement solutions”. With responsibility for managing approximately 25% of VTTI's research portfolio, the Director of DHVY will lead a team that solves complex and impactful heavy-vehicle challenges through deployment, testing, analysis, education and outreach.
Learn more.The Division of Freight, Transit, and Heavy Vehicle Safety (DHVY), a research-focused group within VTTI, seeks qualified and ambitious engineering, human factors or traffic safety professionals with a strong background in psychology, safety, and/or vehicle technology.
This position seeks candidates who demonstrate significant project leadership and management experience in transportation research or related fields. They have an aptitude for solving complex problems through the application of advanced research and development techniques, and conducting research and publishing results in an ethical manner.
Help put VTTI's research to practice by delivering in class presentations and hands-on demonstrations to teach the importance of sharing the road with heavy vehicles. Our institute seeks Regional Team Members to take our program on the road to states across the country to educate novice drivers and community stakeholders.
Reporting directly to the Director of the Division for Technology Implementation (DTI), the Smart Mobility Engineer is a crucial position that will directly impact VTTI's mission of “saving lives, enhancing efficiency, and protecting the environment to improve transportation through research and development, education, and helping implement solutions”.
VTTI seeks a qualified, ambitious Mechanical Systems Engineer interested in answering complex questions surrounding automated vehicle systems. The candidate should be an experienced engineer capable of working independently and with multidisciplinary teams to conduct and support cutting-edge research.
VTTI consists of more than 300 employees dedicated to saving lives, time, and money and protecting the environment. In all endeavors, the VTTI community is charged with finding solutions to the greatest transportation challenges facing our world.