Traffic Engineering Service Line Leader

Johnson, Mirmiran & Thompson•Tampa, FL

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About The Position

Johnson, Mirmiran & Thompson (JMT), a 100% employee-owned multidisciplinary consulting firm, is seeking an energetic, entrepreneurial leader to expand and grow its traffic engineering capabilities across the firm. The role brings together civil engineers, planners, and technicians across multiple offices and markets and is part of JMT’s Transportation Business Line, which primarily serves government and institutional clients. The leader will also coordinate with other business lines to support clients in additional markets. This companywide leadership position will build alignment and collaboration across regions and markets and shape a shared strategic vision for the traffic engineering service. The successful candidate will combine technical credibility with business leadership, translate strategy into measurable action, and help create opportunities for staff to do their best work. The position is available in various locations within JMT’s footprint; specific locations may be discussed with the hiring manager during the interview process.

Requirements

Strong written and oral communication and interviewing skills.
Excellent attention to detail.
Ability to coach, mentor, and develop senior leaders.

Responsibilities

Lead knowledge sharing, technical expertise, and coordination across regional traffic teams.
Support regional leaders in developing client-specific expertise and best practices.
Develop communication networks, forums, and methods that connect staff across offices and foster collaboration and mutual support.
Understand individual and team expertise and align talent with appropriate opportunities.
Advance an integrated traffic engineering portfolio that may include safety, operations, traffic design, signal systems, multimodal analysis, transportation systems management and operations, intelligent transportation systems, data analytics, and emerging mobility solutions.
Establish annual priorities and measurable outcomes for growth, project delivery, quality, talent development, innovation, and cross-office collaboration in alignment with regional, market, and business line objectives.
Implement and update a strategic service line plan and lead the development of new or expanded services, integrated delivery approaches, and emerging capabilities.
Support regional managers and office leaders with business development and strategic pursuits by shaping win strategies, aligning teams across offices, contributing technical and strategic insight to proposals and interviews, and supporting design-build efforts.
Partner with clients and project leaders on complex or high-profile work and coordinate with other firms to develop pursuit partnerships.
Strengthen traffic engineering integration in alternative delivery, smart mobility, and multidisciplinary transportation pursuits.
Serve as JMT’s internal and external subject matter expert and thought leader for the service line and help position the firm as an industry leader.
Work with traffic engineering office leaders to identify award-worthy projects and support or produce articles, conference presentations, and participation in industry forums and events.
Participate in technical societies, including holding offices, and coordinate with JMT’s creative services team on internal and external service line brand development.
Monitor service line performance metrics across business lines, markets, and regions; use performance data to identify trends and support decisions about quality, utilization, backlog, profitability, staffing, and investment priorities.
Work with regional, business line, and traffic engineering office leaders to identify corrective and improvement strategies for project delivery, profitability, and quality.
Manage resource planning to advise leaders on staff demand and capacity and evaluate hiring needs.
Lead collaborative worksharing across traffic engineering offices, assign staff to balance workloads, and cultivate technical expertise.
Promote consistent project execution, quality standards, best practices, risk management, problem solving, deadline management, customer service, and client satisfaction across service line teams.
Maintain a skills matrix to inventory service line capabilities by location and identify gaps and opportunities to strengthen technical expertise.
Guide and mentor traffic engineering office leaders in career development in collaboration with regional leaders.
Collaborate with business line, market, regional, and office leaders to recruit key hires.
Champion succession planning, leadership development, technical career pathways, and opportunities for staff to gain experience across offices, clients, markets, and project types.
Monitor emerging technologies and trends related to the service line.
Evaluate practical uses of automation, artificial intelligence, connected infrastructure, digital delivery, and advanced traffic data to improve client outcomes and the efficiency and consistency of JMT’s work.
Identify and champion innovative solutions that differentiate major pursuits in collaboration with technology leaders and other stakeholders.
Perform other related duties as assigned.