Regional Lead – Transportation Design

Role Overview

• Contribute to the development of the firm’s Transportation strategic plan and translate practice-level priorities into actionable regional initiatives.
• Identify and pursue growth opportunities within the region, including new transportation clients, delivery methods, service offerings, and geographic expansion.
• Align regional efforts with statewide, regional, and federal transportation priorities and funding programs.
• Lead, mentor, and develop a high-performing regional transportation design team.
• Support succession planning, recruiting, and staff development in alignment with practice and firmwide goals.
• Promote a culture of technical excellence, collaboration, accountability, and continuous improvement.
• Foster interdisciplinary coordination across roadway, transit, active transportation, traffic, drainage, and environmental teams.
• Serve as the primary relationship manager for key regional transportation clients, including state DOTs, counties, cities, transit agencies, and regional transportation authorities.
• Represent the firm at transportation industry events, conferences, stakeholder meetings, and public agency forums.
• Collaborate with Business Development and Marketing to shape go-to-market strategies, pursuit positioning, and major proposal efforts.
• Play a leading role in identifying, developing, and securing new transportation projects and on-call contracts.
• Provide leadership and oversight on transportation planning and design projects to ensure quality, schedule adherence, and client satisfaction.
• Support project teams in navigating complex technical, regulatory, and stakeholder challenges, including CEQA/NEPA coordination and agency design standards.
• Drive consistency in project delivery through best practices, standardized tools, and quality management processes.
• Serve as Project Manager on large, complex transportation projects or oversee a portfolio of transportation clients within the region.
• Support development of the regional transportation business plan and budget in coordination with the Transportation Practice Lead and firm leadership.
• Monitor regional backlog, revenue, utilization, and project profitability.
• Track performance metrics and implement corrective actions to meet or exceed established KPIs.
• Optimize staffing and resource allocation to ensure operational efficiency and successful project delivery.

Requirements

• Minimum of 8–10 years of experience delivering transportation planning and design services for public-sector clients, with at least 3 years in a leadership role.
• Proven ability to lead multidisciplinary transportation teams and manage complex infrastructure projects.
• Strong understanding of regional transportation markets, agency delivery models, and regulatory frameworks.
• Demonstrated success in business development, client relationship management, and major pursuits.
• Excellent communication, leadership, and organizational skills.
• Highly organized, analytical, and results oriented.
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, deadline-driven consulting environment.
• Willingness to travel as needed to support regional offices, project sites, and client engagements.
• Ability to work collaboratively with firm leadership and key internal stakeholders.
• Bachelor's degree in Environmental Sciences, Engineering, Construction or closely related field is required.
• PE license in California

Benefits

• Competitive salaries, end of year bonuses, profit sharing, and 401k.
• Generous vacation and sick time packages.
• 8 Paid Holidays.
• Education reimbursement, Paid annual dues for professional and societal organizations.
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