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 Silver Spring, MD. This firm‑wide leadership role combines practice leadership with active project delivery.

Responsibilities

• Lead the integrated transportation engineering and multimodal planning practice: mentor engineers and planners, guide business development, shape technical direction, and stay 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 firm‑wide growth goals.
• Advance training, innovation, and quality control to keep technical work at the forefront of the industry.
• Support marketing and raise the 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, including:
• 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, and transportation demand management strategies.
• Public engagement, policy development, and implementation strategies.
• Multimodal street design balancing safety, mobility, access, and placemaking using 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.

Qualifications