Director of Traffic Engineering

Redtree; Pittsburgh (Allegheny County); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus opportunity

Health benefits

401(k) plan

Paid time off

Hybrid work

Professional development

Licensing reimbursement

Multi-state licensure

Partnership track

Job summary

Wooster & Associates seeks a Director of Traffic Engineering to lead and grow our traffic engineering practice. This role blends practice ownership, business development, client and agency relationships, and organizational leadership.

The position requires senior engineering leadership, setting strategy, ensuring technical excellence, and mentoring a growing team across multi-state projects. Hybrid work from Pittsburgh preferred.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering and a PE license are required.
• 12+ years of traffic engineering and transportation consulting experience.
• Proven leadership at a practice/department level with a track record of growing a client base.
• Expertise with Synchro, SimTraffic, SIDRA, HCS.
• Executive-level communication and client relationship skills.

Responsibilities

• Own strategic direction, growth targets, and P&L for the traffic practice.
• Lead, mentor, and develop engineers, designers, PMs, and future leaders.
• Set technical standards and QA across the practice.
• Maintain senior-level relationships with developers, municipalities, and agencies.
• Provide executive oversight of TIS, TIA, and transportation planning projects.
• Lead proposal strategy, fee structuring, and contract negotiations.
• Represent the firm as senior spokesperson at public meetings and industry events.
• Partner with leadership on firm-wide growth decisions.

Skills

Leadership

Strategic planning

Business development

Client relationships

Executive communication

Traffic engineering

Team leadership

Multi-state project management

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Civil Engineering

Professional Engineer (PE) license

Tools

Synchro

SimTraffic

SIDRA

HCS

Job description

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.

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