Practice Lead — Transportation Engineering & Planning
About The Position
Toole Design is hiring a Practice Lead to lead its integrated transportation engineering and multimodal planning practice. This firmwide leadership position combines practice leadership with active project delivery and may be based in Columbus, Ohio, or another listed Toole Design office. The Practice Lead will mentor engineers and planners, guide business development, 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 oversee practice business planning and growth, support financial health through effective project delivery and workload management, participate in recruiting and hiring, advance training and technical quality, support marketing, and guide subject matter resource groups. The role also provides senior leadership on transportation planning and engineering projects, including plans and corridor studies, traffic and safety analyses, parking and curbside strategies, public engagement, multimodal street design, geometric design, traffic signal work, signing and pavement marking, maintenance of traffic, rapid-implementation designs, and road safety audits. Toole Design is an employee-owned firm of engineers, planners, landscape architects, and urban designers focused on sustainable, safe, inclusive multimodal transportation design. The firm describes its culture as collaborative and inclusive, with mentoring and opportunities for professional growth. The position offers a hybrid schedule with in-office team days Tuesday through Thursday. The stated target salary range is $147,000–$196,500 for candidates with a PE and $129,000–$178,500 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 and interest in leading a practice and developing the next generation of engineers and planners.
- Ability to craft and communicate a vision that bridges planning and engineering.
- Commitment to creating safer, more equitable, and more sustainable transportation systems.
- Candidates rooted in either transportation engineering or multimodal transportation planning must 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 partnership with regional leadership to support annual growth targets.
- 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.
- Provide leadership on comprehensive plans, long-range transportation plans, city or area-wide mobility plans, and corridor studies.
- Lead multimodal traffic impact, traffic operations, and safety analyses; parking, curbside management, and transportation demand management strategies; and public engagement, policy development, and implementation strategies.
- Lead multimodal street design balancing safety, mobility, access, and placemaking objectives using safe systems principles.
- Provide conceptual geometric design for corridor and intersection reconfigurations, with hand-off to civil engineering for final design.
- Lead traffic signal design, retiming, and timing optimization.
- Lead signing, pavement marking, maintenance of traffic, and rapid-implementation design projects.
- Lead road safety audits, crash analysis, and countermeasure selection.
- Mentor engineers and planners and support collaboration among engineers, planners, landscape architects, and urban designers.
Benefits
- Collaborative, inclusive culture that supports growth and advancement.
- Hybrid schedule with in-office team days Tuesday through Thursday.
- Eight paid holidays.
- 24 days of PTO accrued annually.
- Competitive salary and excellent benefits.
- Transportation perks.
- Employee ownership and shared financial success.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
