Transportation Design PE seller-doer

Texas Transportation Consulting

We are seeking an experienced Transportation Design Professional Engineer (PE)(Drainage or Roadway/Traffic) to lead and grow a transportation consulting practice serving TxDOT, NTTA, municipal, and county clients throughout Texas
.

This is a consultant-side leadership position for an accomplished transportation professional who understands how successful consulting practices are built. The ideal candidate has developed a strong career within the engineering consulting industry and brings the technical credibility, client relationships, pursuit leadership, and business-development skills needed to expand a growing Texas transportation practice.

This is not a CE& I, inspection, or agency-side position
. We are specifically seeking a proven seller-doer who can lead client strategy, win work, oversee project delivery, develop staff, and strengthen the firm’s presence in the Texas transportation market.

The strongest candidates will have experience with both transportation schematics and PS&E design
. Professionals with particularly strong backgrounds in schematics, feasibility studies, corridor planning, preliminary engineering, and project development are also highly attractive.

• Provide consultant-side leadership for the continued growth of the firm’s Texas transportation design practice.
• Develop and execute strategies to grow relationships, revenue, backlog, market share, and visibility across the Texas transportation market.
• Build and maintain trusted relationships with TxDOT districts, NTTA, counties, municipalities, prime consultants, teaming partners, and industry leaders
  .
• Identify upcoming transportation programs and projects, establish capture strategies, and position the firm for both prime and subconsultant opportunities.
• Lead pursuits, including go/no-go decisions, teaming strategies, proposal development, technical approaches, presentations, and interview preparation.
• Serve as a senior client manager and trusted advisor, maintaining strong relationships before, during, and after project delivery.
• Represent the firm at client meetings, industry events, professional organizations, and transportation-market functions.
• Help establish the firm as a recognized and respected transportation design consultant throughout Texas.

• Lead and oversee transportation design assignments for TxDOT, NTTA, counties, municipalities, and other transportation agencies
  .
• Direct the development and review of transportation schematics, feasibility studies, corridor studies, preliminary engineering, and PS&E design packages
  .
• Serve as a principal-in-charge, project director, project manager, or senior technical leader on major roadway and transportation assignments.
• Guide multidisciplinary teams through project planning, design development, quality review, and final delivery.
• Manage project scope, schedules, budgets, staffing, quality, risk, and client expectations.
• Ensure that technical work meets applicable agency requirements, design standards, contractual obligations, and quality-control procedures.
• Balance business-development responsibilities with active participation in project delivery and client service.

• Recruit, mentor, and develop transportation engineers, project managers, designers, and emerging technical leaders.
• Help organize and scale the transportation team as workload and client demand increase.
• Create opportunities for staff development, technical advancement, project leadership, and client exposure.
• Coordinate resources across offices, disciplines, and project teams to support successful delivery.
• Promote a collaborative, accountable, entrepreneurial, and client-focused consulting culture.
• Support strategic hiring and succession planning as the transportation practice expands.

The ideal candidate will offer:

• A successful career with a recognized engineering consulting firm serving public-sector transportation clients.
• An active Professional Engineer license
  , preferably in Texas or with the ability to obtain Texas registration.
• Demonstrated success as a seller-doer
  , combining business development with technical and project leadership.
• A proven ability to develop clients, win work, grow backlog, and expand a transportation consulting practice.
• Experience leading strategic pursuits, capture planning,…