Director of Traffic Engineering

Department: Wooster

Location: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

Employment Type: FullTime

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