Traffic Engineering Service Line Leader

Johnson, Mirmiran & Thompson•Richmond, VA

About The Position

Johnson, Mirmiran & Thompson (JMT), a 100% employee-owned multidisciplinary consulting firm with more than 2,800 professionals, is seeking an energetic, entrepreneurial leader to expand and grow its traffic engineering capabilities across the firm. The role coordinates 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 service line leader also coordinates with other business lines to support clients in additional markets. This companywide leadership position will coordinate across regions and markets to build alignment, strengthen collaboration, 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 create opportunities for staff to do their best work. The role offers an opportunity to shape a national practice, influence major pursuits, and connect traffic professionals across JMT’s geographic footprint. The position is available in various locations within JMT’s footprint; specific locations may be discussed with the hiring manager during the interview process. Compensation is $200,000–$270,000 annually, commensurate with experience, education, and certifications. The stated range is a good-faith estimate and may vary based on the experience of the selected candidate.

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, knowledge sharing, and mutual support.
Understand staff and team expertise and align talent with 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 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, helping position the firm as an industry leader.
Work with traffic engineering office leaders to identify award-worthy projects and support or produce articles, speak at conferences, and participate 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, share effective practices, 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 enhancement 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 office traffic engineering leaders, assigning staff 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.
Maintain a skills matrix to inventory service line expertise by location and identify gaps and opportunities to strengthen technical expertise.
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 related to the service line.
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 that differentiate major pursuits, working with technology leaders and other stakeholders.
Perform other related duties as assigned.