Practice Lead - Engineering & Planning

Toole Design•Seattle, WA

14d•$153,000 - $231,500•Hybrid

About The Position

Toole Design is seeking an experienced transportation professional to lead its integrated transportation engineering and multimodal planning practice in Seattle, Washington. This firmwide leadership role combines practice leadership with active project delivery. The Practice Lead mentors engineers and planners, guides business development and technical direction, supports the practice’s financial health, and remains involved in major projects and client relationships. The role reports to the Engineering Director and collaborates closely with the Design and Planning Directors. The Practice Lead serves in project leadership roles such as 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, corridor studies, traffic impact and operations analyses, safety analyses, parking and curbside management, transportation demand management, public engagement, policy development, and implementation strategies. 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 focused on safe, connected, inclusive communities and sustainable multimodal transportation. The firm describes its culture as collaborative and supportive, with mentoring, professional growth, and work rooted in ethics, empathy, and equity.

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 serving as a trusted senior voice on complex projects.
Ability and interest in communicating a vision that connects planning and engineering.
Commitment to creating safer, more equitable, and more sustainable transportation systems.
Candidates may have a career 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

Professional Engineer (PE) license 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 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 plans, mobility and corridor studies, traffic 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 design, road safety audits, crash analysis, and countermeasure selection.
Mentor a team of engineers and planners and support collaboration across disciplines.