Director of Civil Engineering - East Region

Alta is seeking a dynamic East Regional Director of Engineering to join our team in Atlanta and lead our growing engineering practice in the East. This is a fantastic opportunity for an engineering leader who believes in the importance of active, multimodal, and sustainable transportation to shape communities while driving business excellence and operational performance. In this role, you will work with the Engineering Director to provide strategic leadership and operational oversight for our East region engineering teams, driving innovation in sustainable transportation design while fostering a culture of collaboration, professional growth, and excellence.

You will be responsible for setting technical and strategic direction for engineering initiatives across our East region of offices, which include Atlanta, Durham, Minneapolis, Baltimore, and Nashville; ensuring our projects create positive impacts on communities nationwide while meeting financial and operational performance standards. If you are passionate about leading transformational change in transportation engineering while developing talent and advancing organizational excellence, apply with Alta today! About Alta Alta Planning + Design is a sustainable transportation company dedicated to creating active, healthy communities through planning, landscape architecture, engineering, and education/encouragement programs.

Alta was founded in 1996 when communities were calling for safer streets for people walking and bicycling as the non-motorized transportation movement developed into a profession in the United States. We pioneered the field of active transportation, evolving our planning and design work into a visionary global practice that empowers people to live active, healthy lives and gets them to where they need to go. Our core values and work bring about positive change by creating places that are geared toward moving people rather than cars, connecting community members to daily needs and human experience, and empowering every person to live an active healthy life.

As a global leader in mobility innovation for 30 years with over 230 staff, we are dedicated to connecting people to places by working across disciplines and scale to address social justice, safety, and environmental resilience. As East Regional Director of Engineering, you will be the strategic leader responsible for driving engineering excellence and organizational growth across our East region’s operations while collaborating with other regional directors to help lead the engineering practice. Your leadership will directly impact the success of our mission to create active, healthy communities, while ensuring strong financial performance and operational excellence.