Practice Lead - Engineering & Planning

Toole Design•Philadelphia, PA

14d•$134,000 - $204,000•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 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, with a hybrid schedule and in-office team days Tuesday through Thursday. The Practice Lead mentors engineers and planners, guides business development and the firm's technical direction, and remains active on major projects to strengthen client relationships and grow the practice. The role reports to the Engineering Director and collaborates closely with the Design and Planning Directors. The Practice Lead will lead business development and practice planning in support of growth targets; support financial health through project delivery, workload management, staff development, and quality control; collaborate with local, regional, and corporate leaders; advise on recruiting and hiring; advance training and innovation; support marketing and visibility; and guide subject matter resource groups. The role also provides leadership on significant transportation planning and engineering projects. Planning work includes comprehensive and long-range transportation plans, mobility plans, corridor studies, multimodal traffic impact, operations and safety analysis, parking and curbside management, transportation demand management, public engagement, policy development, and implementation strategies. Engineering and design work includes 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. Toole Design is an employee-owned, purpose-driven firm of engineers, planners, landscape architects, and urban designers focused on safer, more connected communities and sustainable multimodal transportation. The firm describes its culture as collaborative and inclusive, with mentoring and opportunities for growth. It is an ENR Top 500 design firm and an equal opportunity employer.

Requirements

15 or more 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 opportunities, and positioning the firm for future needs.
Commitment to technical excellence and to serving as a trusted senior voice on complex projects.
Ability and interest in developing engineers and planners and leading a practice, not only projects.
Ability to craft and communicate a vision that bridges planning and engineering.
Commitment to creating safer, more equitable, and more sustainable transportation systems.
Demonstrated success leading integrated teams, delivering complex projects, and growing a transportation practice.
Candidates may have a career rooted in either transportation engineering or multimodal transportation planning.

Nice To Haves

Professional Engineer (PE) license preferred.
PTOE and/or AICP credentials are a plus.

Responsibilities

Lead business development and practice business planning in partnership with regional leadership to support 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, and mentor staff through project work.
Support marketing and increase the practice's local and national visibility.
Guide subject matter resource groups supporting 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 plans and studies, traffic impact, operations and safety analyses, parking and curbside strategies, transportation demand management, public engagement, policy development, and implementation strategies.
Lead transportation engineering and design projects, including multimodal street design, conceptual geometric design, traffic signal design and optimization, signing, pavement marking, maintenance of traffic, rapid-implementation design, road safety audits, crash analysis, and countermeasure selection.
Mentor and develop engineers and planners while fostering collaboration across disciplines.
Help shape the firm's technical direction and maintain client relationships through active project delivery.