Senior Professional Engineer / Project Manager - Traffic Engineering

Join TKDA as a Senior Professional Engineer / Project Manager - Traffic and help lead the delivery of transportation solutions that improve safety and mobility throughout California and across the country. You'll apply your technical expertise, project leadership, and client service skills while helping expand our traffic engineering services and build on our growing presence in the transportation industry. This role offers an opportunity to help expand TKDA’s California transportation practice through project leadership, business development, and client engagement.

You’ll work alongside engineers, designers, and technicians delivering traffic operations, transportation safety, traffic studies, and transportation system design for state, county, and local agencies and design-build contractors. This position offers the opportunity to lead projects and mentor staff across both traffic operations and traffic design. Candidates may bring deeper expertise in one area while collaborating across a comprehensive range of traffic engineering services.

As a senior member of the team, you’ll partner with the Regional Vice President and Traffic Group Manager, playing a key role in growing TKDA’s transportation presence in the region by managing client relationships, pursuing new opportunities, developing staff, and delivering successful projects. The successful candidate will play a leadership role in project delivery, business development, client engagement, and mentoring as we continue to grow our transportation practice in the region.

We take a seller-doer approach to business development. You’ll partner with Surface Transportation leaders to maintain and expand client relationships, identify project opportunities, develop proposals, and represent TKDA in client and industry settings. You will play an active role in business development through client engagement, pursuit strategies, proposal development, and identification of new opportunities. Success in this role includes strengthening relationships with clients and agency partners throughout the region and helping secure opportunities that support the continued growth of TKDA's transportation practice.

For this opportunity, we are seeking a qualified candidate who currently resides or plans to relocate within a regular commuting distance of our office.

Hybrid Work Environment: Tuesday - Thursday In-Office | Monday & Friday WFH