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About the Role
Toole Design is seeking an experienced transportation professional to lead their 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 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 local and firmwide growth goals.
- Advance training, innovation, and quality control to keep technical work at the forefront of the industry.
- Mentor staff through project work.
- Support marketing and raise the practice's local and national visibility.
- Guide subject matter resource groups that support practice delivery.
- 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 multimodal street design that balances safety, mobility, access, and placemaking objectives applying safe systems principles.
- Provide leadership on conceptual geometric design for corridor and intersection reconfigurations.
- Provide leadership on traffic signal design, retiming, and timing optimization.
- Provide leadership on signing, pavement marking, maintenance of traffic, and rapid-implementation design projects.
- Provide leadership on 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.
- Candidates whose careers have been rooted in either transportation engineering or multimodal transportation planning are welcome, 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
- Traffic engineering
- Multimodal planning
- Transportation design
- Traffic impact analysis
- Traffic operations analysis
- Safety analysis
- Parking strategies
- Curbside management
- Transportation demand management
- Public engagement
- Policy development
- Implementation strategies
- Multimodal street design
- Safe systems principles
- Geometric design
- Traffic signal design
- Signing
- Pavement marking
- Maintenance of traffic
- Rapid-implementation design
- Road safety audits
- Crash analysis
- Countermeasure selection
Location
- Austin, TX
- Atlanta, GA
- Boston, MA
- Los Angeles, CA
- Minneapolis, MN
- Oakland, CA
- Philadelphia, PA
- Portland, OR
- Raleigh, NC
- Seattle, WA
- Silver Spring, MD
Work Type
- Hybrid schedule with in-office team days (Tuesday–Thursday)
Experience Level
- 15+ years of success on transportation engineering and multimodal planning projects
- Experience in business development, proposal strategy, client development
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.
- You'll work alongside thought leaders and industry experts who are committed to mentoring and helping you grow your expertise.
- We offer a collaborative, inclusive culture that supports your growth and advancement.
- We design streets as public places, with engineers, planners, landscape architects, and urban designers working side by side.
- We’re proud to be an ENR Top 500 design firm with one of the lowest turnover rates in the industry.
- For more information about Toole Design, visit our website and follow us on LinkedIn, Instagram, or Facebook.
Equal Opportunity
- At Toole Design, 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).