Traffic Engineering Service Line Leader

Johnson, Mirmiran & Thompson, Inc.•Trenton, NJ

7d•$200,000 - $270,000

About The Position

Johnson, Mirmiran & Thompson (JMT), a 100% employee-owned multidisciplinary consulting firm with more than 2,800 professionals, is seeking a Traffic Engineering Service Line Leader to expand and grow traffic engineering capabilities across the firm. The role spans civil engineers, planners, and technicians working 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 role coordinates across regions and markets to build alignment, strengthen collaboration, and establish a shared strategic vision for the traffic engineering service. The successful candidate will pair technical credibility with business leadership, turn strategy into measurable action, 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. The leader will foster knowledge-sharing and collaboration; set and implement strategic growth priorities; support client relationships, business development, and pursuits; develop JMT’s traffic engineering brand; monitor service-line performance; coordinate staffing and worksharing; promote consistent project delivery; support recruitment and staff development; and evaluate and champion useful innovations. The portfolio may include safety, operations, traffic design, signal systems, multimodal analysis, transportation systems management and operations, intelligent transportation systems, data analytics, and emerging mobility solutions. Compensation is $200,000–$270,000 annually, commensurate with experience, education, and certifications. The stated range is a good-faith estimate and actual compensation may vary based on the selected candidate’s experience.

Responsibilities

Lead knowledge-sharing, technical coordination, and community building across regional traffic teams.
Support regional leaders in developing client-specific expertise and best practices; create communication networks and forums connecting staff across offices.
Align staff expertise with opportunities and foster a collaborative, mutually supportive culture.
Advance an integrated traffic engineering portfolio, potentially including 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 and lead 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 and coordinate with other firms to develop pursuit partnerships.
Strengthen traffic engineering integration in alternative-delivery, smart-mobility, and multidisciplinary transportation pursuits.
Act as JMT’s internal and external subject-matter expert and thought leader; help position JMT as an industry leader in traffic engineering.
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 by 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 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.
Coordinate resource planning to advise leaders on staff demand and capacity and evaluate hiring needs.
Lead collaborative worksharing across office traffic engineering leaders, assigning staff to balance workloads and develop technical expertise.
Promote consistent project execution, quality standards, best practices, risk management, problem solving, deadline management, customer service, and client satisfaction.
Maintain a skills matrix documenting the depth and location of service-line skillsets and identify gaps and opportunities to enhance technical expertise.
Guide and mentor traffic engineering office leaders’ 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 relevant to the service line.
Evaluate 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 that differentiate major pursuits, collaborating with technology leaders and other stakeholders.
Perform other related duties as assigned.