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 Atlanta, GA. 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.
• Report to the 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 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 technical work at the forefront of the industry; mentor staff through project work.
• Support marketing and raise the practice's local and national visibility.
• 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

• Desire to lead a practice, not just a project; energized by developing the next generation of engineers and planners.
• Strategic thinking for practice direction, work pursuit, and positioning the firm for future opportunities.
• 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 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.
• Belief that strong engineering makes great planning real, and that streets are public places where engineering rigor and urban design strengthen one another.
• Commitment to creating safer, more equitable, and more sustainable transportation systems for the communities served.
• A PE is preferred; PTOE and/or AICP credentials are a plus.
• Candidates may come from transportation engineering or multimodal transportation planning backgrounds, provided they have demonstrated success leading integrated teams, delivering complex projects, and growing a transportation practice.

Benefits