Practice Lead - Engineering & Planning

Toole Design•Atlanta, GA

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 Atlanta, GA. The Practice Lead will mentor engineers and planners, lead business development and practice planning, help shape technical direction, and contribute to major projects and client relationships. The role reports to the Engineering Director and collaborates closely with the Design and Planning Directors. The Practice Lead will support the practice’s financial health through effective project delivery, workload management, staff development, and quality control; collaborate with local, regional, and corporate leadership; advise on recruiting and hiring; advance training and innovation; support marketing; and guide subject matter resource groups in areas such as traffic engineering, multimodal planning, and transportation design. The position also provides leadership on major transportation planning and engineering efforts, potentially serving as Principal-in-Charge, Project Director, Senior Technical Advisor, or Project Manager. Work includes plans and mobility studies, traffic and safety analyses, curbside and parking strategies, public engagement and policy development, multimodal street design, conceptual geometric design, traffic signal work, signing and pavement marking, maintenance of traffic, rapid-implementation design, road safety audits, crash analysis, and countermeasure selection.

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.
Ability and desire to lead a practice and develop the next generation of engineers and planners.
Strategic thinking about practice direction, work selection, and positioning the firm for future opportunities.
Commitment to technical excellence and to 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.
Success leading integrated teams and delivering complex projects, with a career rooted in transportation engineering or multimodal transportation planning.

Nice To Haves

A Professional Engineer (PE) credential 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 practice 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, including comprehensive plans, long-range transportation plans, city- or area-wide mobility plans, corridor studies, 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, traffic signal design and optimization, signing, pavement marking, maintenance of traffic, rapid-implementation design, road safety audits, crash analysis, and countermeasure selection.