Practice Lead - Engineering & Planning

Toole Design•Silver Spring, MD

14d•$145,000 - $220,000•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 Silver Spring, Maryland, with a hybrid schedule that includes in-office team days Tuesday through Thursday. The Practice Lead reports to the Engineering Director and collaborates closely with the Design and Planning Directors. The role leads a team of engineers and planners, guides business development and practice planning, helps shape the firm's technical direction, and remains active on major projects to strengthen client relationships and grow the practice. The Practice Lead supports financial health through effective project delivery, workload management, staff development, and quality control; works with local, regional, and corporate leadership; supports recruitment; advances training and innovation; raises the practice's visibility; and guides subject matter resource groups. The Practice Lead serves in project leadership roles such as Principal-in-Charge, Project Director, Senior Technical Advisor, or Project Manager. Work spans transportation planning—including comprehensive and long-range plans, mobility plans, corridor studies, traffic and safety analyses, parking and curbside management, transportation demand management, public engagement, policy, and implementation—and transportation engineering and design, including multimodal streets, conceptual geometric design, traffic signals, signing and pavement marking, maintenance of traffic, rapid-implementation projects, road safety audits, crash analysis, and countermeasure selection.

Requirements

At least 15 years of success on the transportation engineering and multimodal planning project types described in the posting.
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 to serving as a trusted senior voice on complex projects.
Ability to craft and communicate a vision bridging planning and engineering.
Commitment to safer, more equitable, and more sustainable transportation systems.
Candidates may have careers rooted in transportation engineering or multimodal transportation planning, provided they have demonstrated success leading integrated teams, delivering complex projects, and growing a transportation practice.

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 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 involving comprehensive plans, long-range transportation plans, mobility plans, corridor studies, traffic impact, operations and safety analyses, 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 signal design and optimization, signing, pavement marking, maintenance of traffic, rapid-implementation designs, road safety audits, crash analysis, and countermeasure selection.