Practice Lead - Engineering & Planning

Toole Design • Oakland, CA

14d • $170,500 - $259,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

Toole Design is seeking an experienced transportation professional to lead its integrated transportation engineering and multimodal planning practice in Oakland, California. This firmwide leadership role combines practice leadership with active project delivery. The Practice Lead mentors engineers and planners, guides business development and the firm's technical direction, and remains involved in major projects to strengthen client relationships and grow the practice. The position reports to the Engineering Director and collaborates closely with the Design and Planning Directors.

The role includes leading practice business planning, supporting financial health through effective project delivery and workload management, developing staff, contributing to recruiting and hiring, advancing training and quality control, supporting marketing, and guiding subject matter groups. Project responsibilities include serving as a principal-in-charge, project director, senior technical advisor, or project manager on transportation planning and engineering efforts.

Planning work may include comprehensive and long-range transportation plans, mobility plans and corridor studies; multimodal traffic impact, operations, and safety analysis; parking, curbside management, and transportation demand management strategies; and public engagement, policy development, and implementation. Engineering and design work may include multimodal street design, conceptual geometric design, traffic signal design and optimization, signing and pavement marking, maintenance of traffic, rapid-implementation projects, 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. The company describes its culture as collaborative and inclusive, and its work as focused on safe, equitable, sustainable, and inclusive communities. The role offers a hybrid schedule with in-office team days Tuesday through Thursday. The targeted salary range is $194,000–$259,000 for candidates with a PE and $170,500–$235,000 for candidates without one.

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.
• Ability and desire to lead a practice and develop the next generation of engineers and planners.
• Strategic thinking about practice direction, work to pursue, and positioning the firm for future opportunities.
• Commitment to technical excellence and serving as a trusted senior voice on complex 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 and delivering complex projects.

Nice To Haves

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

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 increase 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 involving plans and studies, traffic analysis, parking and curbside management, transportation demand management, public engagement, policy development, and implementation strategies.
• Lead transportation engineering and design projects involving multimodal street design, conceptual geometric design, traffic signals, signing, pavement marking, maintenance of traffic, rapid implementation, road safety audits, crash analysis, and countermeasure selection.

Benefits

• Hybrid schedule with in-office team days Tuesday through Thursday.
• Eight paid holidays.
• Twenty-four days of PTO accrued annually.
• Competitive salary and excellent benefits.
• Transportation perks.
• Employee ownership and the associated opportunity to share in company success and financial security.
• Collaborative, inclusive culture that supports growth and advancement.
• Mentoring and opportunities to grow expertise.

What This Job Offers

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