Practice Lead — Transportation Engineering & Planning
Columbus, Ohio, United States · Hybrid
$129k–$197k/yr
Senior+
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Practice Lead — Transportation Engineering & Planning
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$129k–$197k/yr
Full-time
8 Paid holidays, 24 Days of PTO accrued annually, Competitive salary, Excellent benefits, Transportation perks
Posted 17d ago
~40 hrs/week
Responsibilities
The Practice Lead will mentor a team of engineers and planners while guiding business development and technical direction for the firm. They will also serve as a project leader on major transportation planning and engineering efforts to ensure high-quality project delivery.
Requirements
Candidates must have 15+ years of experience in transportation engineering and multimodal planning with a proven track record of leading teams and projects. A Professional Engineer (PE) license is preferred, along with strong strategic thinking and communication skills.
Full job description
Description
Design streets that move people—not just cars.
At Toole Design, we’re leading the way in creating safer, more connected communities through sustainable multimodal transportation design. We’re looking for an experienced transportation professional to lead Toole Design's integrated transportation engineering and multimodal planning practice to join us in Columbus, OH. This firmwide leadership role combines practice leadership with active project delivery. This position can be located in any of our offices, including: Atlanta, GA; Austin, TX; Boston, MA; Los Angeles, CA; Minneapolis, MN; Oakland, CA; Philadelphia, PA; Portland, OR; Raleigh, NC; Seattle, WA; Silver Spring, MD. We are making one hire.
Why You’ll Love Working Here
We’re not just another firm, we’re a purpose-driven team of engineers, planners, landscape architects, and urban designers who believe streets should work for everyone. At Toole Design, you'll work alongside thought leaders and industry experts who are committed to mentoring and helping you grow your expertise. We offer:
A collaborative, inclusive culture that supports your growth and advancement
Hybrid schedule with in-office team days (Tuesday–Thursday)
8 paid holidays; and 24 days of PTO accrued annually
Competitive salary, excellent benefits, and transportation perks: Benefits and Support
Projects that truly improve lives through safe, inclusive design rooted in ethics, empathy, and equity
What You’ll Do
We design streets as public places, with engineers, planners, landscape architects, and urban designers working side by side. Your leadership style should support and encourage that collaboration.
Leading the Practice
As our Practice Lead, you'll mentor a talented team of engineers and planners, guide business development, help shape the firm's technical direction, and stay active on major projects that strengthen client relationships and grow the practice. You will report to our Engineering Director while collaborating closely with our Design and Planning Directors.
Lead business development and practice business planning in support of annual growth targets, in partnership with regional leadership
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 to keep our technical work at the forefront of the industry mentoring staff through project work
Support marketing and raise the practice's local and national visibility
Guide subject matter resource groups that support practice delivery, including traffic engineering, multimodal planning, transportation design and related specialties
Leading Projects
Serve as Principal-in-Charge, Project Director, Senior Technical Advisor, or Project Manager on major transportation planning and engineering efforts. You will provide leadership on transportation planning projects including:
Comprehensive plans, long range transportation plans, city or area-wide mobility plans and corridor studies
Multimodal traffic impact analysis, traffic operations analysis, and safety analysis
Parking, curbside management, and transportation demand management strategies
Public engagement, policy development, and implementation strategies
You will provide leadership on transportation engineering and design projects including:
Multimodal street design that balances safety, mobility, access, and placemaking objectives applying safe systems principles
Conceptual geometric design for corridor and intersection reconfigurations, with hand-off to civil engineering for final design
Traffic signal design, retiming, and timing optimization
Signing, pavement marking, maintenance of traffic, and rapid-implementation design projects
Road safety audits, crash analysis, and countermeasure selection
Join Us. Make an Impact.
We’re proud to be an ENR Top 500 design firm with one of the lowest turnover rates in the industry. If you’re ready to do meaningful work with a supportive, talented team—apply today. Please note: this is one open role. We've posted it in multiple offices so you can apply from whichever location works best for you.
We're targeting a range of $147,000-$196,500 for individuals with a PE and $129,000-$178,500 without.
Questions, assistance or accommodations? Contact [email protected] or call 301-927-1900, press 5.
At Toole Design, we foster a collaborative culture and welcome people of all backgrounds to help build more inclusive communities. We strongly encourage women and applicants from underrepresented communities – people of color, LGBTQIA+, immigrants, first-generation college students/graduates, those with disabilities and people at all the intersections in between – to apply. We’re proud that about half our managers are women and we are committed to diverse leadership that reflects the communities we serve. Toole Design is a woman-owned, equal opportunity employer (EO/AA/VEV/Disabled employer).
Desire to lead a practice — not just a project. You're energized by developing the next generation of engineers and planners to see your impact through what they deliver
Strategic thinking for where the practice should go, what work to pursue, and how to position the firm for what's next
Commitment to technical excellence as a personal standard and to remain a trusted senior voice on signature, complex projects
Excitement to craft and communicate a vision that bridges planning and engineering
15+ years of success on the types of transportation engineering and multimodal planning projects described above
Demonstrated success building and leading teams, programs, practices and projects
Experience in business development, proposal strategy, client development
A belief that strong engineering makes great planning real — and that streets are public places where engineering rigor and urban design strengthen one another
A commitment to creating safer, more equitable, and more sustainable transportation systems for the communities we serve
A PE is preferred. PTOE and/or AICP credentials are a plus. We welcome candidates whose careers have been rooted in either transportation engineering or multimodal transportation planning, provided they have demonstrated success leading integrated teams, delivering complex projects, and growing a transportation practice
Toole Design is the nation's leading planning, engineering, and landscape architecture firm specializing in active, multimodal transportation. For over 20 years, we’ve created great places that move people.
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