Practice Lead - Engineering & Planning

Toole Design•Austin, TX

14d•$138,000 - $209,500•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 Austin, Texas. The Practice Lead mentors engineers and planners, guides business development and technical direction, supports the practice’s financial health, and delivers major transportation planning and engineering projects. The role reports to the Engineering Director and collaborates closely with the Design and Planning Directors. The position leads projects in transportation planning, including comprehensive and long-range transportation plans, 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. It also provides leadership on transportation engineering and design, including 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 firm of engineers, planners, landscape architects, and urban designers focused on safer, more connected communities and sustainable multimodal transportation design. The firm describes its culture as collaborative and inclusive and offers a hybrid schedule with in-office team days Tuesday through Thursday.

Requirements

15 or more years of success on transportation engineering and multimodal planning projects of the 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 to lead an integrated transportation engineering and multimodal planning practice and deliver complex projects.
Commitment to technical excellence and to serving as a trusted senior voice on signature, complex projects.
Strategic thinking about the practice’s direction, work pursuits, and the firm’s positioning.
Ability to craft and communicate a vision connecting planning and engineering.
Commitment to safer, more equitable, and more sustainable transportation systems.
Candidates may have careers rooted in either 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

Professional Engineer (PE) credential 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, city- or area-wide mobility plans, corridor studies, traffic 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 signals, signing, pavement marking, maintenance of traffic, rapid-implementation design, road safety audits, crash analysis, and countermeasure selection.
Build and lead teams, programs, practices, and projects while developing the next generation of engineers and planners.
Shape the practice’s strategic direction, work pursuits, and positioning, while serving as a trusted senior technical voice on complex projects.