Practice Lead - Engineering & Planning

About the role

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 in Oakland, CA. This firmwide leadership role combines practice leadership with active project delivery.

Responsibilities

• Lead the integrated transportation engineering and multimodal planning practice: mentor team, guide business development, shape technical direction, stay active on major projects.
• Report to Engineering Director while collaborating with Design and Planning Directors.
• Lead business development and practice business planning to support annual growth targets, partnering with regional leadership.
• Support practice financial health via effective project delivery, workload management, staff development, 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 technical work at forefront.
• Support marketing and raise practice's local and national visibility.
• Guide subject‑matter resource groups (traffic engineering, multimodal planning, transportation design, related specialties).
• Serve as Principal‑in‑Charge, Project Director, Senior Technical Advisor, or Project Manager on major transportation planning and engineering efforts.
• Provide leadership on transportation planning projects: comprehensive plans, long‑range transportation plans, city‑ or area‑wide mobility plans, corridor studies, multimodal traffic impact analysis, traffic operations analysis, safety analysis, parking, curbside management, transportation demand management strategies, public engagement, policy development, implementation strategies.
• Provide leadership on transportation engineering and design projects: multimodal street design balancing safety, mobility, access, placemaking applying safe systems principles; conceptual geometric design for corridor and intersection reconfigurations; traffic signal design, retiming, timing optimization; signing, pavement marking, maintenance of traffic, rapid‑implementation design; road safety audits, crash analysis, countermeasure selection.

Qualifications

• Desire to lead a practice, not just a project; energized by developing next