Practice Lead - Engineering & Planning

Toole Design • Raleigh, NC

14d • $145,000 - $220,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

Toole Design is seeking an experienced transportation professional to lead its firmwide integrated transportation engineering and multimodal planning practice in Raleigh, North Carolina. This leadership position combines practice development and team leadership with active involvement in major project delivery. The Practice Lead mentors engineers and planners, guides business development and technical direction, supports the practice’s financial health, and helps strengthen client relationships and grow the practice. The role reports to the Engineering Director and collaborates closely with the Design and Planning Directors.

The Practice Lead serves in roles such as Principal-in-Charge, Project Director, Senior Technical Advisor, or Project Manager on major transportation planning and engineering projects. Planning work may include comprehensive and long-range transportation plans, mobility plans, corridor studies, traffic and safety analysis, parking and curbside management, transportation demand management, public engagement, policy development, and implementation strategies. Engineering 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. It offers a collaborative and inclusive culture, a hybrid schedule with in-office team days Tuesday through Thursday, 8 paid holidays, and 24 days of PTO accrued annually. The advertised salary range is $147,000–$196,500 for candidates with a PE and $129,000–$178,000 for candidates without one.

Requirements

• At least 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.
• 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.
• Demonstrated success leading integrated teams and delivering complex projects; career roots may be in transportation engineering or multimodal transportation planning.

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 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 and safety analysis, parking and curbside management, transportation demand management, public engagement, policy, and implementation strategies.
• Lead transportation engineering and design projects involving multimodal street design, conceptual geometric design, traffic signals, signing, pavement markings, maintenance of traffic, rapid implementation, road safety audits, crash analysis, and countermeasure selection.
• Mentor a team of engineers and planners and help develop the next generation of professionals.
• Help shape the firm’s technical direction and maintain client relationships through active project delivery.

Benefits

• Employee ownership and shared financial success.
• Hybrid schedule with in-office team days Tuesday through Thursday.
• 8 paid holidays.
• 24 days of PTO accrued annually.
• Competitive salary and excellent benefits.
• Transportation perks.
• Collaborative, inclusive culture that supports growth and advancement.
• Mentoring and opportunities to grow expertise.
• Purpose-driven projects focused on safer, inclusive design and improved communities.

What This Job Offers

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