Senior Transportation & Traffic Engineering Lead

Lochner and Egis are entering an exciting new chapter as one organization.

We have combined decades of trusted U.S. engineering expertise with the global reach, technical excellence, and career opportunities of a leading international engineering, consulting, and infrastructure firm. While our name has changed, our commitment to our people, clients, and communities is stronger than ever.

At Egis, every project is an opportunity to create lasting impact. We collaborate with public and private clients to design and deliver innovative transportation, aviation, rail, transit, water, structural, environmental, and infrastructure solutions that connect communities and improve everyday life. Join a team where innovation is encouraged, collaboration is valued, and your work helps build a more sustainable future.

We are seeking an experienced Senior Transportation & Traffic Engineering Lead to provide technical leadership, project management, and strategic pursuit support for transportation planning, traffic engineering, and highway safety projects across Texas.

This role will support the growth of our transportation engineering practice through complex project delivery, client relationships, and technical contributions to business development efforts, particularly for the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT). The successful candidate will serve as a senior technical advisor and project leader, leading or supporting the traffic engineering components of strategic pursuits while mentoring engineering teams and advancing technical excellence.

• Provide senior technical leadership for transportation planning, traffic engineering, highway safety, and ITS/TSMO projects.
• Lead traffic operations studies, safety analyses, corridor studies, feasibility assessments, and transportation improvement strategies.
• Oversee technical reports, engineering studies, design plans, and deliverables, ensuring compliance with TxDOT and applicable engineering standards.
• Serve as a technical subject matter expert, providing quality oversight and guidance to multidisciplinary engineering teams.

• Lead complex transportation engineering projects from planning and scoping through execution and successful delivery.
• Manage project budgets, schedules, staffing, resources, and technical deliverables to ensure quality, profitability, and client satisfaction.
• Serve as a primary client contact, coordinating with TxDOT, municipalities, transportation agencies, and project stakeholders.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams and subconsultants to resolve technical challenges and meet project objectives.

• Lead or support the traffic engineering and transportation planning components of project pursuits, contributing technical expertise to winning new work.
• Partner with business development and project teams on proposal development, technical approaches, scopes of work, staffing plans, and client interviews.
• Build and maintain client relationships while identifying opportunities to expand transportation engineering services across Texas.
• Support strategic business development efforts through client engagement, industry participation, and technical presentations.

• Support the growth and operations of transportation planning and traffic engineering practice through resource planning, workload management, and technical leadership.
• Mentor and develop engineering professionals, promoting technical excellence and collaboration.
• Partner with regional and discipline leadership to align staffing, technical capabilities, and project resources with business needs.