Practice Lead - Engineering & Planning

Toole Design•Minneapolis, MN

14d•$138,000 - $209,500•Hybrid

About The Position

Toole Design is seeking an experienced transportation professional to lead its integrated transportation engineering and multimodal planning practice. This firmwide leadership role combines practice leadership with active project delivery and is based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The Practice Lead will mentor engineers and planners, guide business development and the firm's technical direction, and remain actively involved in major projects and client relationships. The position reports to the Engineering Director and collaborates closely with the Design and Planning Directors. The role includes leading practice business planning and growth, supporting financial health through effective project delivery and workload management, developing staff, maintaining quality, contributing to recruitment, advancing training and innovation, supporting marketing, and guiding subject matter resource groups. Project leadership may include serving as Principal-in-Charge, Project Director, Senior Technical Advisor, or Project Manager on transportation planning, engineering, and design efforts. Toole Design is an employee-owned, purpose-driven firm of engineers, planners, landscape architects, and urban designers focused on safer, more connected communities and inclusive, sustainable multimodal transportation. The company describes its culture as collaborative and inclusive, with opportunities for mentoring and professional growth. The role has a hybrid schedule with in-office team days Tuesday through Thursday.

Requirements

15+ years of success on transportation engineering and multimodal planning projects of the types described.
Demonstrated success building and leading teams, programs, practices, and projects.
Experience in business development, proposal strategy, and client development.
Strategic thinking about practice direction, work to pursue, and positioning the firm for future opportunities.
Commitment to technical excellence and to serving as a trusted senior voice on complex projects.
Ability and desire to lead a practice and develop the next generation of engineers and planners.
Ability to craft and communicate a vision bridging transportation planning and engineering.
Commitment to creating safer, more equitable, and more sustainable transportation systems.
Experience leading integrated teams, delivering complex projects, and growing a transportation practice.

Nice To Haves

Professional Engineer (PE) license preferred.
PTOE and/or AICP credentials are a plus.
Candidates with careers rooted in either transportation engineering or multimodal transportation planning are welcome if they have demonstrated success leading integrated teams, delivering complex projects, and growing a transportation practice.

Responsibilities

Lead business development and practice business planning in support of annual growth targets, in partnership with regional leadership.
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, and mentor staff through project work.
Support marketing and raise the practice's local and national visibility.
Guide subject matter resource groups supporting practice delivery, including traffic engineering, multimodal planning, transportation design, and related specialties.
Serve as Principal-in-Charge, Project Director, Senior Technical Advisor, or Project Manager on major transportation planning and engineering efforts.
Lead transportation planning projects, including comprehensive plans, long-range transportation plans, city- or area-wide mobility plans, corridor studies, multimodal traffic impact and operations analyses, safety analyses, parking and curbside management, transportation demand management, public engagement, policy development, and implementation strategies.
Lead transportation engineering and design projects, including multimodal street design, conceptual geometric design for corridor and intersection reconfigurations, traffic signal design and optimization, signing, pavement marking, maintenance of traffic, rapid-implementation design, road safety audits, crash analysis, and countermeasure selection.
Build and lead teams, programs, practices, and projects while maintaining client relationships and growing the practice.