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About the Role

Toole Design is seeking an experienced transportation professional to lead its integrated transportation engineering and multimodal planning practice in Austin, TX. This firmwide leadership role combines practice leadership with active project delivery, focusing on creating safer, more connected communities through sustainable multimodal transportation design.

Responsibilities

• Mentor a talented team of engineers and planners.
• Guide business development and shape the firm's technical direction.
• Stay active on major projects to strengthen client relationships and grow the practice.
• Lead business development and practice business planning in support of annual growth targets.
• Support the practice’s financial health through effective project delivery, workload management, staff development, and quality control.
• Collaborate with local, regional, and corporate leadership to advance practice priorities.
• Help recruit and advise on hiring decisions to support growth goals.
• Advance training, innovation, and quality control to keep technical work at the forefront of the industry.
• Support marketing and raise the practice's local and national visibility.
• Guide subject matter resource groups.
• Serve as Principal-in-Charge, Project Director, Senior Technical Advisor, or Project Manager on major transportation planning and engineering efforts.
• Provide leadership on transportation planning projects including comprehensive plans, long-range transportation plans, city or area-wide mobility plans, and corridor studies.
• Provide leadership on multimodal traffic impact analysis, traffic operations analysis, and safety analysis.
• Provide leadership on parking, curbside management, and transportation demand management strategies.
• Provide leadership on public engagement, policy development, and implementation strategies.
• Provide leadership on transportation engineering and design projects.
• Lead multimodal street design that balances safety, mobility, access, and placemaking objectives applying safe systems principles.
• Provide conceptual geometric design for corridor and intersection reconfigurations.
• Lead traffic signal design, retiming, and timing optimization.
• Lead signing, pavement marking, maintenance of traffic, and rapid-implementation design projects.
• Lead road safety audits, crash analysis, and countermeasure selection.

Requirements

• Desire to lead a practice, not just a project.
• Energized by developing the next generation of engineers and planners.
• Strategic thinking for practice direction, work pursuit, and firm positioning.
• Commitment to technical excellence and remaining a trusted senior voice on complex projects.
• Excitement to craft and communicate a vision that bridges planning and engineering.
• 15+ years of success on transportation engineering and multimodal planning projects.
• Demonstrated success building and leading teams, programs, practices, and projects.
• Experience in business development, proposal strategy, and client development.
• Belief that strong engineering makes great planning real.
• Commitment to creating safer, more equitable, and more sustainable transportation systems.
• A PE is preferred.
• PTOE and/or AICP credentials are a plus.
• Welcome candidates whose careers have been rooted in either transportation engineering or multimodal transportation planning, provided they have demonstrated success leading integrated teams, delivering complex projects, and growing a transportation practice.

Skills

• Transportation engineering
• Multimodal planning
• Business development
• Project management
• Team leadership
• Strategic thinking
• Technical excellence
• Public engagement
• Policy development
• Traffic analysis
• Street design
• Geometric design
• Traffic signal design
• Signing and pavement marking
• Road safety audits

Location

• Austin, TX

Work Type

• Hybrid schedule with in-office team days (Tuesday–Thursday)

Experience Level

• 15+ years of success on transportation engineering and multimodal planning projects

Education Level

• PE is preferred
• PTOE and/or AICP credentials are a plus

Salary/Compensations

• $157,000-$209,500 for individuals with a PE
• $138,000-$190,000 without a PE

Benefits

• 8 paid holidays
• 24 days of PTO accrued annually
• Competitive salary
• Excellent benefits
• Transportation perks

About the Company

• Toole Design is a purpose-driven team of engineers, planners, landscape architects, and urban designers who believe streets should work for everyone.
• We are a collaborative, inclusive culture that supports growth and advancement.
• We offer projects that truly improve lives through safe, inclusive design rooted in ethics, empathy, and equity.
• We're proud to be an ENR Top 500 design firm with one of the lowest turnover rates in the industry.
• Toole Design is a woman-owned, equal opportunity employer.

Equal Opportunity

• We foster a collaborative culture and welcome people of all backgrounds to help build more inclusive communities.
• We strongly encourage women and applicants from underrepresented communities – people of color, LGBTQIA+, immigrants, first-generation college students/graduates, those with disabilities and people at all the intersections in between – to apply.
• We’re proud that about half our managers are women and we are committed to diverse leadership that reflects the communities we serve.
• Toole Design is a woman-owned, equal opportunity employer (EO/AA/VEV/Disabled employer).