Director of Traffic Engineering

About the role

Wooster & Associates is seeking a Director of Traffic Engineering to lead and grow our traffic engineering practice. This is a strategic leadership role combining practice ownership, business development, client and agency relationships, and organizational leadership, reporting directly to firm leadership and playing a key role in shaping the company's long-term growth strategy. This position is ideal for a senior engineering leader who is as comfortable setting practice strategy and growing client relationships as they are ensuring technical excellence across a team's project delivery.

Responsibilities

Practice Leadership

• Own the strategic direction, growth targets, and P&L performance of the traffic engineering practice.
• Lead, mentor, and develop the practice's engineers, designers, project managers, and technical staff, including future team leads/managers as the group scales.
• Set and uphold technical standards, quality assurance processes, and a culture of accountability and professional growth across the practice.
• Serve as the firm's senior technical authority for traffic engineering, providing final oversight on complex or high-visibility projects.

Project Delivery

• Provide executive oversight of Transportation Impact Studies (TIS), Traffic Impact Assessments (TIA), traffic operations analyses, parking studies, roadway safety evaluations, and transportation planning projects delivered across the practice.
• Set standards for project schedules, budgets, staffing, and resource allocation across a multi-project, multi-state portfolio.
• Maintain senior-level relationships with developers, architects, planners, municipalities, DOTs, and regulatory agencies.
• Ensure consistent delivery quality across jurisdictions, agency requirements, and company standards firm-wide.

Business Development, Client & Industry Leadership

• Represent Wooster & Associates as its senior spokesperson for traffic engineering at public meetings, planning commission hearings, zoning hearings, agency coordination meetings, industry conferences, and strategic partnership discussions.
• Own and grow strategic relationships with developers, land development firms, municipalities, transportation agencies, architects, planners, and institutional clients.
• Set the practice's business development strategy and lead pursuit of new markets, service lines, and strategic growth initiatives.
• Lead proposal strategy, fee structuring, client presentations, and contract negotiations for major pursuits.
• Serve as a trusted executive advisor to clients throughout planning, permitting, and approval processes.
• Participate in firm-wide leadership discussions, contributing to company strategy beyond the traffic practice alone.

Qualifications

Required

• Bachelor's Degree in