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 Minneapolis, MN. This firmwide leadership role combines practice leadership with active project delivery.

Responsibilities

• Lead the integrated transportation engineering and multimodal planning practice, mentoring engineers and planners, guiding business development, shaping technical direction, and staying active on major projects.
• Support practice 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 technical work at the forefront of the industry.
• Mentor staff through project work and support marketing to raise practice visibility locally and nationally.
• Guide subject‑matter resource groups (traffic engineering, multimodal planning, transportation design, related specialties) that support practice delivery.
• 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 including comprehensive plans, long‑range transportation plans, city‑ or area‑wide mobility plans, corridor studies, multimodal traffic impact analysis, traffic operations and safety analysis, parking, curbside management, and transportation demand management strategies, public engagement, policy development, and implementation strategies.
• Provide leadership on transportation engineering and design projects including multimodal street design applying safe‑systems principles, conceptual geometric design for corridor and intersection reconfigurations, traffic signal design, retiming, and timing optimization, signing, pavement marking, maintenance of traffic, rapid‑implementation design, road safety audits, crash analysis, and countermeasure selection.

Requirements

• 15+ years of success on transportation engineering and multimodal planning projects of the types described.
• Demonstrated success building and leading teams, programs, practices, and projects.
• Experience in business development, proposal strategy, and 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 served.
• PE preferred; PTOE and/or AICP credentials are a plus.

Skills

• Strategic thinking for practice direction, work selection, and firm positioning.
• Technical excellence as a personal standard and trusted senior voice on complex projects.
• Ability to craft and communicate