What are the responsibilities and job description for the Director of Traffic Engineering position at Wooster and Associates?
Wooster & Associates is seeking a Director of Traffic Engineering to lead and grow our traffic engineering practice. This is a strategic leadership role combining practice ownership, business development, client and agency relationships, and organizational leadership, reporting directly to firm leadership and playing a key role in shaping the company's long-term growth strategy.
This position is ideal for a senior engineering leader who is as comfortable setting practice strategy and growing client relationships as they are ensuring technical excellence across a team's project delivery.
Key Responsibilities
Practice Leadership
- Own the strategic direction, growth targets, and P&L performance of the traffic engineering practice.
- Lead, mentor, and develop the practice's engineers, designers, project managers, and technical staff, including future team leads/managers as the group scales.
- Set and uphold technical standards, quality assurance processes, and a culture of accountability and professional growth across the practice.
- Serve as the firm's senior technical authority for traffic engineering, providing final oversight on complex or high-visibility projects.
Project Delivery
- Provide executive oversight of Transportation Impact Studies (TIS), Traffic Impact Assessments (TIA), traffic operations analyses, parking studies, roadway safety evaluations, and transportation planning projects delivered across the practice.
- Set standards for project schedules, budgets, staffing, and resource allocation across a multi-project, multi-state portfolio.
- Maintain senior-level relationships with developers, architects, planners, municipalities, DOTs, and regulatory agencies.
- Ensure consistent delivery quality across jurisdictions, agency requirements, and company standards firm-wide.
Business Development, Client & Industry Leadership
- Represent Wooster & Associates as its senior spokesperson for traffic engineering at public meetings, planning commission hearings, zoning hearings, agency coordination meetings, industry conferences, and strategic partnership discussions.
- Own and grow strategic relationships with developers, land development firms, municipalities, transportation agencies, architects, planners, and institutional clients.
- Set the practice's business development strategy and lead pursuit of new markets, service lines, and strategic growth initiatives.
- Lead proposal strategy, fee structuring, client presentations, and contract negotiations for major pursuits.
- Serve as a trusted executive advisor to clients throughout planning, permitting, and approval processes.
- Participate in firm-wide leadership discussions, contributing to company strategy beyond the traffic practice alone.
Qualifications
Required
- Bachelor's Degree in Civil Engineering.
- Active Professional Engineer (PE) license.
- 12 years of traffic engineering and transportation consulting experience, including demonstrated leadership at a practice, department, or business-line level.
- Track record of leading and scaling engineering teams, including developing future leaders/managers.
- Demonstrated business development success, building a client base, winning new work, and growing a practice's revenue.
- Proficiency with Synchro, SimTraffic, SIDRA, HCS, and related traffic analysis software.
- Strong working knowledge of traffic engineering principles, transportation planning, traffic operations, and roadway access management.
- Executive-level communication, leadership, and client relationship skills.
Highly Preferred
- PTOE certification.
- Multi-state project and licensure experience.
- Experience supporting commercial, residential, mixed-use, institutional, and industrial development projects.
- Existing client relationships within transportation, engineering, land development, or municipal markets.
Why Join Wooster & Associates?
- Lead and shape the strategic direction of a growing, highly respected traffic engineering practice.
- Sit at the intersection of technical leadership and executive strategy, with direct input into firm-wide growth decisions.
- Manage a multi-state portfolio of high-impact projects and client relationships.
- Partner directly with executive leadership on the company's future direction.
- Hybrid work environment based out of Pittsburgh's North Shore.
Benefits
- Competitive salary with executive-level performance-based bonus opportunity
- Comprehensive health benefits
- 401(k) with company contribution
- Paid vacation, personal time, and holidays
- Hybrid work flexibility
- Professional development and continuing education support
- PE and PTOE licensing reimbursement
- Multi-state licensure support and reimbursement
- Path to firm leadership / partnership-track opportunities