Designs multimodal transportation systems that make walking, biking and transit safe, convenient, and enjoyable.
You are at the forefront of using best practices and brainstorming creative traffic operations and safety solutions for challenging transportation projects. You lead, support, and mentor an interdisciplinary team to help deliver multimodal transportation projects in a wide range of contexts. You may help lead and participate in the development of design plans for signing and pavement marking, traffic calming, maintenance of traffic, and traffic signals for transportation projects and streetscapes in urban, suburban, and rural settings. Your expertise may be called upon to develop recommended safety improvements for Safe Routes to School studies, safety action plans, and other safety studies. You may use programs such as Synchro, Highway Capacity Software, MicroStation and/or AutoCAD to fulfill production work on your projects. You'll have the opportunity to use state of the art tools and practices to help create safe and sustainable multimodal transportation networks. You also could work on a wide range of projects that inform your design work, including road diet feasibility analysis, multimodal traffic studies for new development, roundabout studies, trail/roadway intersection studies and designs, parking studies and design guidance. You will share your knowledge with staff and clients, to help develop feasibility studies, concept plans, and design documents, as well as mentor your colleagues to ensure that our projects are consistently of the highest quality.
Toole Design Group in Silver Spring, MD is looking to hire an experienced and talented full-time Senior Engineer (Traffic/Transportation). Do you understand the nuts and bolts of conventional traffic engineering, but appreciate the need to focus and safety and efficiency for all modes? Are you interested in helping communities and clients think beyond conventional approaches to designing transportation networks and explore more innovative, context-sensitive alternatives? Would you like to work for a firm that is committed to the well-being of its employees? If so, please consider joining our Silver Spring team.
This Senior Engineer position, with a focus on multimodal traffic operations, traffic engineering design, and active transportation, earns a competitive salary and great benefits, including medical, dental, vision, life insurance, disability, a health savings account (HSA), and a flexible spending account (FSA). All staff receive 8 holidays and earn at least 16 days of PTO over the course of the year. We practice what we preach and ensure that our employees also have access to transportation by providing them with financial incentives to bike, walk, or use transit for a better quality of life.
You participate in business development pursuits in your home region as well as across our North American offices. Your job can sometimes be challenging, but you get to work with a close-knit team that is passionate about the work and the communities that you serve.
This full-time position typically works a flexible schedule of 40 hours a week. We also provide employees with the flexibility and necessary equipment to work from home two days per week (i.e., Monday and Friday). The Silver Spring office of Toole Design is conveniently located close to regional trails and networks, with on-street bike infrastructure, and just a few blocks from the Silver Spring Metro Station (Red Line), MARC Station, and bus depot. The office is easily accessed on foot, by bicycle, and via transit.
We are targeting a salary range of $120,000 to $140,000 for this position.