Traffic Engineering Service Line Leader

Johnson, Mirmiran & Thompson•McKinney, TX

About The Position

Johnson, Mirmiran & Thompson (JMT), a 100% employee-owned multidisciplinary consulting firm, is seeking an energetic leader with an entrepreneurial spirit to expand and grow its traffic engineering capabilities across the firm. The role spans civil engineers, planners, and technicians in multiple offices and markets and is part of JMT’s Transportation Business Line, which primarily serves government and institutional clients. The leader will coordinate with other business lines to support clients in additional markets and will work companywide across regions to build alignment, strengthen collaboration, and establish a shared strategic vision for the service line. This high-impact leadership opportunity combines technical credibility with business leadership. The successful candidate will translate strategy into measurable action, build connections among traffic professionals, support major pursuits, and 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, and support regional leaders in developing client-specific expertise and best practices.
Develop communication networks, forums, and methods that connect staff across offices; foster collaboration, knowledge-sharing, and mutual support; and align staff expertise 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, aligned with regional, market, and business line objectives; implement and update a strategic service line plan.
Lead the development of new or expanded services, integrated delivery approaches, and emerging capabilities.
Support regional managers, office leaders, and traffic engineering office leaders in 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, coordinate with other firms to develop pursuit partnerships, and 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, help position the firm as an industry leader, and support recognition of its traffic practices in relevant markets.
Work with traffic engineering office leaders to identify award-worthy projects and support or perform publishing articles, speaking at conferences, and participating in industry forums and events; participate in technical societies, including holding offices.
Coordinate with JMT’s creative services team and lead internal and external brand development for the service line.
Understand and monitor service line performance metrics across business lines, markets, and regions; use performance data to identify trends and inform decisions about quality, utilization, backlog, profitability, staffing, and investment priorities.
Work with regional, business line, and traffic engineering office leaders to identify corrective and enhancement strategies for project delivery, profitability, and quality.
Manage consistent resource planning to advise leaders on staff demand and available capacity and evaluate hiring needs; lead collaborative worksharing across offices to balance workloads and cultivate technical expertise.
Drive consistency in project execution, quality standards, best practices, risk management, problem solving, deadlines, customer service, and client expectations across traffic engineering teams.
Maintain a skills matrix to inventory service line expertise and identify skill gaps and opportunities to enhance technical capabilities.
Guide, support, 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; evaluate practical applications 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 as differentiators for major pursuits in collaboration with technology leaders and other stakeholders.
Perform other related duties as assigned.