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Transportation Engineering Group Lead

Woolpert
Houston, TX Full Time
POSTED ON 11/27/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 1/12/2026
We seek to move the world forward through innovative thinking.

Woolpert is an award-winning, global leader in architecture, engineering, and geospatial services. We blend design excellence with cutting-edge technology to deliver exceptional client value. Our team is passionate about their work and committed to building the next generation of industry leaders, and as a certified Great Place to Work®, Woolpert embraces progress and innovation to create limitless opportunities for career growth.

Position Overview

Woolpert is hiring a Transportation Engineering Group Lead to join our dynamic Transportation Engineering team at our Houston, TX office. This position will offer the opportunity to work on a variety of transportation projects spanning multiple clients and presenting unique challenges. This position is responsible for complex engineering design tasks as well as business development, client contact and sustained growth of our transportation design team.

We are unable to provide visa sponsorship for this position. Applicants must already possess work authorization in the country the job is located.

What You Will Do

  • Lead the transportation and drainage team for Texas.
  • Manage the delivery of transportation projects.
  • Professional experience of increasing responsibility, including project management, on projects involving PS&E and or schematics.
  • TxDOT experience and appropriate pre-certifications required.
  • Experience in conducting regular project review and reporting meetings and oversight of quality control on all assigned projects is required.
  • Experience in leading project teams, including subconsultants, in performing transportation design of highways and roadways is required.
  • Partnering with sales and technical leadership to build relationships with DOT, other transportation agencies, and local clients, with an ability to work successfully across markets.
  • Recruiting and retaining strategic technical talent and the best and brightest employees.
  • Good marketing, communications and technical writing skills are required.
  • Existing contacts and relationships along with experience winning and delivering projects for TxDOT.

What You Will Bring

  • BS or MS in Civil Engineering or related field.
  • 15 years of experience.
  • PE License or ability to obtain within a year of employment.
  • Experience in MicroStation required.
  • Experience working on TxDOT projects.
  • Familiar with TxDOT design criteria.
  • Experience working on transportation PS&E projects.
  • Ability to work on multiple projects, across multiple teams and disciplines

Benefits You Will Love

Certified as a Great Place to Work, Woolpert is one of the fastest-growing architecture, engineering, and geospatial companies in the world. With over 75 offices and countless projects around the globe, you’ll work on meaningful assignments that improve quality of life around the world. In addition to offering competitive pay, we provide employees with a robust set of unique benefits, including:

  • Freedom to Work program: Set your own schedule and location (as appropriate).
  • Principal program: Earn the opportunity to become an owner of the firm.
  • Flexible paid time off/vacation: Take time off when it makes sense for you and your team.
  • Career development: Explore a wide range of learning and growth opportunities within and across industries.
  • Health, life, vision, and dental insurance: Cover all your medical bases.
  • Paid sick time, retirement plan, fitness reimbursement, pet insurance, identity protection, technology stipend, employee assistance program, and more!

Base pay offered may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.

Pay Range

$125,300 - $208,800 USD

Find out more about what Woolpert has to offer here: http://woolpert.com/about-us/

Woolpert is an equal-opportunity employer. Woolpert is committed to the full inclusion of all individuals. We recruit, train, compensate, and promote regardless of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, disability, age, veteran status, and other protected status as required by applicable law. You may view more about EEO on our website: Equal-Employment-Opportunity-The-Law.pdf and EEO is the Law Poster Supplement.

Applicants who require an accommodation throughout the application and interview process should request this in advance by contacting askhr@woolpert.com

To all agencies: Please, no phone calls or emails to any employee of Woolpert or any of our subsidiaries about this requisition. All resumes submitted by search firms/employment agencies to any employee at Woolpert via email, the internet, or in any form and/or method will be deemed the sole property of Woolpert, unless such search firms/employment agencies were engaged by Woolpert's Talent Acquisition Team for this requisition and a valid agreement is in place. In the event a candidate who was submitted outside of Woolpert's applicant process is hired, no fee or payment of any kind will be paid.

Salary : $125,300 - $208,800

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