Practice Lead - Engineering & Planning

Toole Design • Silver Spring, MD

8d • $145,000 - $220,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

At Toole Design, we are dedicated to creating safer, more connected communities through sustainable multimodal transportation design. We are seeking an experienced transportation professional to lead our integrated transportation engineering and multimodal planning practice. This firmwide leadership role involves both practice leadership and active project delivery. We are a purpose-driven team of engineers, planners, landscape architects, and urban designers committed to making streets work for everyone. You will work alongside thought leaders and industry experts, with opportunities for mentorship and professional growth. We offer a collaborative and inclusive culture, a hybrid schedule, competitive salary, excellent benefits, and transportation perks. Our projects focus on improving lives through safe, inclusive design rooted in ethics, empathy, and equity.

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 as a personal standard and to remain a trusted senior voice on signature, 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, and that streets are public places where engineering rigor and urban design strengthen one another.
• Commitment to creating safer, more equitable, and more sustainable transportation systems for the communities served.
• A PE is preferred.
• PTOE and/or AICP credentials are a plus.
• Experience rooted in either transportation engineering or multimodal transportation planning, with demonstrated success leading integrated teams, delivering complex projects, and growing a transportation practice.

Responsibilities

• Mentor a talented team of engineers and planners.
• Guide 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 to keep technical work at the forefront of the industry, mentoring staff through project work.
• Support marketing and raise the practice's local and national visibility.
• Guide subject matter resource groups that support 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.
• Provide leadership on transportation planning projects including comprehensive plans, long-range transportation plans, city- or area-wide mobility plans, and corridor studies.
• Lead multimodal traffic impact analysis, traffic operations analysis, and safety analysis.
• Develop parking, curbside management, and transportation demand management strategies.
• Lead public engagement, policy development, and implementation strategies.
• Provide leadership on transportation engineering and design projects including multimodal street design that balances safety, mobility, access, and placemaking objectives applying safe systems principles.
• Develop conceptual geometric design for corridor and intersection reconfigurations, with hand-off to civil engineering for final design.
• Lead traffic signal design, retiming, and timing optimization.
• Manage signing, pavement marking, maintenance of traffic, and rapid-implementation design projects.
• Conduct road safety audits, crash analysis, and countermeasure selection.

Benefits

• Hybrid schedule with in-office team days (Tuesday–Thursday)
• 8 paid holidays
• 24 days of PTO accrued annually
• Competitive salary
• Excellent benefits
• Transportation perks
• Projects that truly improve lives through safe, inclusive design rooted in ethics, empathy, and equity

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed