Practice Leader - Traffic​/Transportation

Langan provides expert land development engineering and environmental consulting services for major developers, renewable energy producers, energy companies, corporations, healthcare systems, colleges/universities, and large infrastructure programs throughout the U.S. and around the world. Our employees collaborate seamlessly among 40+ offices and gain valuable hands-on experience that fosters career growth. Langan culture is entrepreneurial from advancing innovative technical solutions, to participating in robust training and knowledge sharing, to making progressive change within the communities we live and work.

Consistently ranked among the top ten “Best Firms to Work For” and Engineering News-Record’s top 50 firms worldwide, Langan attracts and retains the best talent in the industry. Employees thrive at Langan, a firm that fosters an inclusive and supportive work environment for all; prioritizes wellbeing, health, and safety; encourages volunteerism and philanthropy; offers workplace flexibility, along with carbon-neutral office spaces;

and empowers individuals to contribute their skills and knowledge to make impactful contributions.

Langan is seeking a Traffic/Transportation Practice Leader to join its collaborative, multidisciplinary California team. This individual will serve a key leadership function in growing Langan’s Traffic/Transportation Practice in California dedicated to serving private sector developers, corporations, public entities, and institutional clients on their real estate development projects. In this role, you will have the opportunity to leverage Langan’s national Traffic/Transportation leadership team and established practice paired with our rapidly growing multi-disciplinary California team to fuel the growth of the California Traffic/Transportation group.

• Work closely with firm’s Traffic/Transportation and Southern California leadership to develop and execute growth plans;
• Lead staffing and hiring initiatives for California, ensuring strong organizational strategy utilization;
• Participate in the identification and pursuit of new clients, develop additional work within an existing project and attend business development meetings with new and existing clients;
• Understanding of the CEQA and CALTRAN processes as well as city and state pre-qualification processes;
• Provide direct oversight and management of junior staff for specific project assignments. Coach, train, and motivate Traffic/Transportation staff;
• Lead Traffic/Transportation efforts on a variety of projects including the ability to prepare Traffic Impact Analysis, state roadway and driveway permitting, etc.;
• Manage and deliver on multiple projects and tasks within specific budgets, schedules, and deadlines. Prepare progress reports and draft change orders. Prepare draft invoices, project billings, and assist in payment collections;
• Coordinate and work with staff to determine the feasibility of projects based on the analysis of preliminary data, and prepare and modify reports, specifications, plans, and design for projects;
• Effectively organize, write and edit draft proposals, reports and other documents;
• Interface effectively, and professionally with clients, contractors, subcontractors, staff, project personnel, supervisors and other office locations/disciplines;
• Perform other duties as required.

• Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering, Master's degree in Traffic/Transportation a plus;
• Professional Engineering license;
• 15+ years of Traffic Engineering/Transportation Planning experience in traffic/transportation engineering, traffic impact studies, traffic signal warrants, parking studies, driveway design, and traffic signal design;
• Familiarity with state permitting and DOT guidelines and protocols for traffic impact analysis and highway design;
• Existing relationships with CEQA practitioners and local land use attorneys a plus;
• Understanding of various city and state pre-qualification processes;
• Effective public speaking skills; public testimony experience desirable;
• Ability to effectively manage multiple clients and projects, and to develop and manage project budgets;
• Knowledge…