Transportation Engineer

Engineering Job Type Full-time Description **Transportation Engineer**

This transportation engineering position with a focus on sustainable multimodal 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). 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.

**About Toole Design**

With over 200 employees in 18 locations throughout the US and Canada, Toole Design is the leading planning, engineering, and landscape architecture firm specializing in multimodal transportation. For almost two decades, weve been transforming the way people move and helping communities thrive. Ethics, empathy, and equity inspire and guide everything we do. Our success is built on collaborative partnerships with our clients and an approach that goes beyond conventional solutions. Our projects are at many different scales: contributing to national design guidance for the Federal Highway Administration; state-level active transportation plans; design and engineering of city and town streets; site level access such as transit stations. Our talented team of planners, landscape architects and engineers are committed to delivering quality work that meets the needs of all people, regardless of age, ability, race or gender. Toole Design is committed to the well-being of its employees and we are proud of our ultra-collaborative and team-oriented environment and approach. We have been named a "best firm to work for" and have one of the lowest staff turnover rates in the industry.

Toole Design is a committed to building a diverse and welcoming team. We have a collaborative culture where people of all backgrounds come together to share ideas and build better, more inclusive communities. We are an equal opportunity, woman-owned business. We are proud of the fact that over 50% of our managers are women or people of color. No matter what your background is we encourage you to apply for this position.

**A Day in the Life of a Transportation Engineer**

You are at the forefront of brainstorming creative solutions for challenging projects. You work on an interdisciplinary team to deliver multimodal transportation infrastructure in a wide range of contexts from roadway reconstructions and streetscapes in highly urban settings to signature trail projects in suburban and rural areas that highlight and enhance the natural environment. Youll work on safety plans, road diet feasibility analysis, multimodal traffic studies for new development, sign and marking plans, maintenance of traffic plans, roundabout studies, trail/roadway intersection studies and design Safe Routes to Schools. You will share your knowledge with staff and clients, to develop feasibility studies, concept plans, and construction documents, as well mentor your colleagues to ensure that our projects are consistently of the highest quality. You will have the opportunity to work alongside transportation industry leaders that focus on multimodal safety and transportation equity research and data analysis.

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.

**Work Schedule for a Transportation Engineer**

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 2-3 days per week. Our office opened in 2018 and is located in downtown Los Angeles within the Financial District and is a short walk to all of the major rapid transit lines and walking distance to the 7th Street Metro Center and Metro Bike Share.

Our team is a dynamic mix of planners and engineers who strive to support each other and our communities, not just work together. This is an opportunity to perform work you love alongside a fun group of people in the heart of the most dynamic transportation region in the nation. Southern California is poised to change significantly over the next decade, with transportation improvements at the forefront of its evolution. Whether its preparing safety studies and design guidance, assisting local agencies prepare for the 2028 Olympics, or working on mobility-as-a-service technology, Toole Design is poised to help shape this future. Youll be joining a rapidly growing team in an exciting market and location.

Our staff enjoy bicycling or riding the bus in to work and will happily join you on a post-work summit in Elysian Park to take in the Greater Los Angeles environs. You will experience a company culture that is rooted in family, fun, and creative thinking. Strong values, flexibility, and exceptional quality work are just a few of the characteristics we hold in high regard.!

At Toole Design, diversity is a necessity, not a nice-to-have. We have a collaborative culture where people of all backgrounds come together to share ideas and build better, more inclusive communities. We encourage those from underrepresented communities women, people of color, LGBTQIA , immigrants, those with disabilities and people at all the intersections in between to apply. Even if you dont think your current skill set checks every box below, but this role seems to align with your strengths, we want to hear from you.

Were proud that about half of our managers are women and are committed to achieving racial diversity in our leadership as well. Toole Design is a woman-owned business and an equal opportunity employer (EO/AA/VEV/Disabled employer).

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Requirements **Qualifications of a Transportation Engineer**

Bachelor's or Master's degree in civil/transportation engineering

Professional engineering license. California license and/or Professional Transportation Operations Engineer (P.T.O.E) is a plus

4 years of traffic engineering experience

Experience developing conceptual designs for intersections and corridors in CAD

Experience developing sign and marking plans for intersections

Experience with traffic signal design and operations

Understanding of basic geometric design principles of roadways and industry roadway design standards

Strong understanding of design standards and guidelines such as Caltrans Standard Plans & Specifications, APWA Greenbook, Caltrans Highway Design Manual, and California MUTCD is a plus

Availability and interest in performing field visits in the Southern California region

Strong writing skills and experience writing a technical memorandum and/or basis of design documentation

Experience with Southern California local jurisdictions and transit agencies on projects is a plus

**It would be nice if you have:**

Fluency in Spanish

Experience with managing transportation planning and/or engineering projects

Experience in the various stages of marketing, including business development, proposal strategy and writing, and interviewing

A working knowledge of GIS software (ArcGIS or QGIS) and Adobe Creative Suites Cloud apps (Illustrator and InDesign)

Participated in industry events and are active in local professional organizations

**Youll be great here if:**

You enjoy using data-driven, multimodal approaches to create safe, equitable, and livable communities

You enjoy working on a few projects at a time

You deliver high-quality work on time and on budget

You have strong leadership skills and enjoy participating in multi-disciplinary teams

You are passionate about sustainability and the opportunity to wo