DKS Associates Jobs Hiring Now
DKS Associates is hiring for 8 open roles on Migrate Mate as of August 31, 2026, concentrated in project & program management and specialized engineering, with listed salaries up to about $230,000. Migrate Mate updates DKS Associates's live openings daily. DKS Associates is a transportation planning and engineering consultancy that provides project management, safety planning, roadway design, and related services to public and private sector clients.
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DKS Associates hiring data on Migrate Mate, as of August 31, 2026.
- Open jobs
- 8
- Top team
- Project & Program Management
- Seniority
- Manager level or above
- Work type
- 0% remote or hybrid
- Top location
- Sacramento
- Salary range
- $146,000–$230,000
Listed salaries for DKS Associates roles on Migrate Mate range from about $146,000 to $230,000 per year across 8 open roles, as of August 31, 2026.
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Transportation Engineering Practice Leader and Office Director
Shape the Future of Transportation in Boise and Beyond
DKS Associates is growing! In November 2024, we proudly welcomed Six Mile Engineering, a respected Boise-area firm, into DKS, a 100% employee-owned company. With this acquisition, we’ve combined Six Mile’s local expertise in roadway design with the full breadth of DKS’s national strengths in transportation planning, engineering, and technology. We are seeking an experienced transportation engineering leader to serve as our Transportation Engineering Practice Leader and Office Director. The ideal candidate brings broad experience delivering transportation projects, building client relationships, leading multidisciplinary teams, and mentoring technical staff with roadway design serving as one of several areas of technical expertise. This senior leadership role combines responsibility for transportation practice growth with leadership of our Boise office, including financial performance, employee development, strategic planning, and operational excellence.
The Opportunity
This strategic leadership role blends transportation consulting expertise, business development, technical leadership, office management, and financial stewardship to advance DKS's reputation as a leader in transportation consulting. While roadway design remains an important technical discipline, this leader will collaborate across transportation planning, traffic engineering, multimodal, and technology practices to deliver integrated transportation solutions. Success in this role requires balancing client service, practice growth, office leadership, and development of future employee owners. This is more than a job, it’s your chance to set the direction of a growing practice, expand roadway and multimodal services, and mentor the next generation of leaders.
Why Join DKS?
Reputation: For over 45 years, DKS has been a trusted partner in transportation design, traffic engineering, and technology innovation.
Ownership Culture: As a 100% employee-owned firm, every employee has a voice and a stake in our success.
Growth: Help expand DKS's transportation engineering practice throughout Idaho while helping shape the future of transportation services across the company.
Breadth of Services: Our work spans roadway and intersection design, transit, ITS, connected vehicles, and emerging mobility.
Your Role as Transportation Engineering Practice Leader and Office Director
Define the strategic direction for DKS's transportation engineering practice in collaboration with transportation planning, traffic engineering, and technology leaders, with roadway design serving as a key area of expertise.
Track industry trends and market opportunities to position the firm for growth.
Contribute to company-wide strategic planning and leadership forums.
Cultivate strong relationships with agencies, clients, and partner firms.
Identify and win new business opportunities; lead proposals and interviews.
Lead the Boise office's business and financial performance, including budgeting, staffing, utilization, and growth objectives.
Develop and mentor high-performing teams through coaching, performance management, career development, and succession planning.
Partner with regional and executive leadership to drive strategic growth, operational excellence, and a strong employee-owner culture.
Manage a portfolio of complex transportation projects including roadway design, multimodal corridors, complete streets, bicycle and pedestrian facilities, intersections, traffic operations improvements, and other transportation infrastructure projects.
Provide high-level QA/QC, technical oversight, and project delivery guidance.
Mentor transportation professionals across offices in technical excellence, project delivery, client service, business development, and leadership.
Support recruitment, development, and retention of exceptional transportation professionals.
Represent DKS in industry organizations and promote thought leadership through conferences, committees, and publications.
Foster a collaborative, inclusive, and high-performance work culture.
"Don't meet every requirement? At DKS Associates, we are dedicated to building a diverse, equitable, and inclusive workplace, so even if you're excited about this role but your past experience doesn't align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we strongly encourage you to apply. You may be just who we're looking for."
What We’re Looking For
Transportation Engineering Expertise: 15+ years delivering transportation infrastructure projects with significant roadway design experience and demonstrated success leading multidisciplinary transportation teams.
Leadership Experience: Demonstrated success leading complex transportation projects, managing multidisciplinary teams, serving as a trusted client advisor, and coaching employees through performance and career development.
Business and Financial Acumen: Experience managing office, department, or practice financial performance, including budgeting, forecasting, resource planning, utilization management, and profitability goals.
People Leadership: Demonstrated success hiring, developing, mentoring, and retaining high-performing teams while creating a positive and accountable workplace culture.
Technical Breadth: Demonstrated experience across multiple transportation disciplines such as roadway design, multimodal facilities, traffic engineering, intersections, utilities, drainage, traffic control, signing and striping, or related transportation infrastructure.
Professional Credentials: PE license required; other specialty certifications a plus.
* Entrepreneurial Mindset: Ability to grow a practice, expand services, and strengthen DKS’s presence in Idaho and beyond.
Your Impact
At DKS, you'll do more than deliver transportation projects. You'll build on Six Mile's strong roadway design legacy while helping grow a broader transportation engineering practice that reflects DKS's multidisciplinary expertise. Through client relationships, technical leadership, business development, and mentorship, you'll help shape the future of transportation throughout Idaho while influencing the long-term direction of one of the Northwest's leading transportation consulting firms.
Ready to Lead the Way?
Join a collaborative, employee-owned firm that values innovation, technical excellence, and leadership. Together, let’s design the future of transportation in Boise and beyond.
What are our Benefits?
DKS offers its employee-owners a comprehensive benefits package. We have designed a benefit plan of which we are proud. One that encourages happy, healthy, and engaged employee-owners. We offer:
20 Vacation Days & 8.66 Sick Pay Days
8 Paid Holidays
Employer paid Disability, Life, AD&D Insurance Coverage
100% DKS paid Medical Premium for our employee-owners
80% DKS paid Medical Premium for spouse and dependents of our employee-owners
Extremely affordable Dental, & Vision Plans
Flexible Spending Account (Health Care & Dependent Care), Transit Flexible Spending Account
Health Savings Account Options
Paid Jury/Witness Duty
Paid Bereavement
Leave without Pay
Transit Subsidy
Pre-tax Commuter Option
Referral Bonus Program
DKS funded Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP)
401k Pre-tax and Roth options
Monthly Cell Phone Reimbursement
Verizon Employee Discount
Our Commitment to your Professional Growth:
Training & Educational Assistance
Technical & Professional Societies
Conferences & Seminars
Annual Bonus Program
Years of Service Awards
Flexible Work Schedule
Salary Range DOE:
Transportation Engineering Practice Leader: $178,640 - $203,720 per year (posted job)
Transportation Engineering Practice Leader & Principal: $191,180 - $229,900 per year
DKS is proud to be 100% employee-owned with a commitment to making a meaningful difference in our communities. As part of the DKS team, you will be part of a collaborative environment where every employee-owner is encouraged to share ideas and participate in strategic discussions focused on shaping the future of transportation and of our firm. At DKS, we put our employee-owners first. We realize our unique and diverse employee-owners are the heart of our firm. Not only do we work hard to accomplish our goals, we also play hard to celebrate our victories! We welcome the opportunity for you to become an employee-owner of DKS!
DKS Associates is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to status as a protected veteran or a qualified individual with a disability, or other protected status such as race, religion, color, national origin, sex, or age.
Transportation Engineering Practice Leader and Office Director
Shape the Future of Transportation in Boise and Beyond
DKS Associates is growing! In November 2024, we proudly welcomed Six Mile Engineering, a respected Boise-area firm, into DKS, a 100% employee-owned company. With this acquisition, we’ve combined Six Mile’s local expertise in roadway design with the full breadth of DKS’s national strengths in transportation planning, engineering, and technology. We are seeking an experienced transportation engineering leader to serve as our Transportation Engineering Practice Leader and Office Director. The ideal candidate brings broad experience delivering transportation projects, building client relationships, leading multidisciplinary teams, and mentoring technical staff with roadway design serving as one of several areas of technical expertise. This senior leadership role combines responsibility for transportation practice growth with leadership of our Boise office, including financial performance, employee development, strategic planning, and operational excellence.
The Opportunity
This strategic leadership role blends transportation consulting expertise, business development, technical leadership, office management, and financial stewardship to advance DKS's reputation as a leader in transportation consulting. While roadway design remains an important technical discipline, this leader will collaborate across transportation planning, traffic engineering, multimodal, and technology practices to deliver integrated transportation solutions. Success in this role requires balancing client service, practice growth, office leadership, and development of future employee owners. This is more than a job, it’s your chance to set the direction of a growing practice, expand roadway and multimodal services, and mentor the next generation of leaders.
Why Join DKS?
Reputation: For over 45 years, DKS has been a trusted partner in transportation design, traffic engineering, and technology innovation.
Ownership Culture: As a 100% employee-owned firm, every employee has a voice and a stake in our success.
Growth: Help expand DKS's transportation engineering practice throughout Idaho while helping shape the future of transportation services across the company.
Breadth of Services: Our work spans roadway and intersection design, transit, ITS, connected vehicles, and emerging mobility.
Your Role as Transportation Engineering Practice Leader and Office Director
Define the strategic direction for DKS's transportation engineering practice in collaboration with transportation planning, traffic engineering, and technology leaders, with roadway design serving as a key area of expertise.
Track industry trends and market opportunities to position the firm for growth.
Contribute to company-wide strategic planning and leadership forums.
Cultivate strong relationships with agencies, clients, and partner firms.
Identify and win new business opportunities; lead proposals and interviews.
Lead the Boise office's business and financial performance, including budgeting, staffing, utilization, and growth objectives.
Develop and mentor high-performing teams through coaching, performance management, career development, and succession planning.
Partner with regional and executive leadership to drive strategic growth, operational excellence, and a strong employee-owner culture.
Manage a portfolio of complex transportation projects including roadway design, multimodal corridors, complete streets, bicycle and pedestrian facilities, intersections, traffic operations improvements, and other transportation infrastructure projects.
Provide high-level QA/QC, technical oversight, and project delivery guidance.
Mentor transportation professionals across offices in technical excellence, project delivery, client service, business development, and leadership.
Support recruitment, development, and retention of exceptional transportation professionals.
Represent DKS in industry organizations and promote thought leadership through conferences, committees, and publications.
Foster a collaborative, inclusive, and high-performance work culture.
"Don't meet every requirement? At DKS Associates, we are dedicated to building a diverse, equitable, and inclusive workplace, so even if you're excited about this role but your past experience doesn't align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we strongly encourage you to apply. You may be just who we're looking for."
What We’re Looking For
Transportation Engineering Expertise: 15+ years delivering transportation infrastructure projects with significant roadway design experience and demonstrated success leading multidisciplinary transportation teams.
Leadership Experience: Demonstrated success leading complex transportation projects, managing multidisciplinary teams, serving as a trusted client advisor, and coaching employees through performance and career development.
Business and Financial Acumen: Experience managing office, department, or practice financial performance, including budgeting, forecasting, resource planning, utilization management, and profitability goals.
People Leadership: Demonstrated success hiring, developing, mentoring, and retaining high-performing teams while creating a positive and accountable workplace culture.
Technical Breadth: Demonstrated experience across multiple transportation disciplines such as roadway design, multimodal facilities, traffic engineering, intersections, utilities, drainage, traffic control, signing and striping, or related transportation infrastructure.
Professional Credentials: PE license required; other specialty certifications a plus.
* Entrepreneurial Mindset: Ability to grow a practice, expand services, and strengthen DKS’s presence in Idaho and beyond.
Your Impact
At DKS, you'll do more than deliver transportation projects. You'll build on Six Mile's strong roadway design legacy while helping grow a broader transportation engineering practice that reflects DKS's multidisciplinary expertise. Through client relationships, technical leadership, business development, and mentorship, you'll help shape the future of transportation throughout Idaho while influencing the long-term direction of one of the Northwest's leading transportation consulting firms.
Ready to Lead the Way?
Join a collaborative, employee-owned firm that values innovation, technical excellence, and leadership. Together, let’s design the future of transportation in Boise and beyond.
What are our Benefits?
DKS offers its employee-owners a comprehensive benefits package. We have designed a benefit plan of which we are proud. One that encourages happy, healthy, and engaged employee-owners. We offer:
20 Vacation Days & 8.66 Sick Pay Days
8 Paid Holidays
Employer paid Disability, Life, AD&D Insurance Coverage
100% DKS paid Medical Premium for our employee-owners
80% DKS paid Medical Premium for spouse and dependents of our employee-owners
Extremely affordable Dental, & Vision Plans
Flexible Spending Account (Health Care & Dependent Care), Transit Flexible Spending Account
Health Savings Account Options
Paid Jury/Witness Duty
Paid Bereavement
Leave without Pay
Transit Subsidy
Pre-tax Commuter Option
Referral Bonus Program
DKS funded Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP)
401k Pre-tax and Roth options
Monthly Cell Phone Reimbursement
Verizon Employee Discount
Our Commitment to your Professional Growth:
Training & Educational Assistance
Technical & Professional Societies
Conferences & Seminars
Annual Bonus Program
Years of Service Awards
Flexible Work Schedule
Salary Range DOE:
Transportation Engineering Practice Leader: $178,640 - $203,720 per year (posted job)
Transportation Engineering Practice Leader & Principal: $191,180 - $229,900 per year
DKS is proud to be 100% employee-owned with a commitment to making a meaningful difference in our communities. As part of the DKS team, you will be part of a collaborative environment where every employee-owner is encouraged to share ideas and participate in strategic discussions focused on shaping the future of transportation and of our firm. At DKS, we put our employee-owners first. We realize our unique and diverse employee-owners are the heart of our firm. Not only do we work hard to accomplish our goals, we also play hard to celebrate our victories! We welcome the opportunity for you to become an employee-owner of DKS!
DKS Associates is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to status as a protected veteran or a qualified individual with a disability, or other protected status such as race, religion, color, national origin, sex, or age.
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DKS Associates's 8 open roles are manager level or above, and about 0% are remote or hybrid. The most active teams are project & program management, specialized engineering, and project management. DKS Associates is a transportation planning and engineering consultancy specializing in project management, roadway design, safety planning, and transportation systems for public agencies and private clients. Most DKS Associates roles are based in Sacramento, with some in Salem and Seattle.
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How many jobs is DKS Associates hiring for right now?
DKS Associates is hiring for 8 open roles on Migrate Mate as of August 31, 2026, updated daily, concentrated in project & program management and specialized engineering. Roles span transportation planning, engineering design, and project management, with most positions at a senior or project leadership level.
What kinds of roles does DKS Associates hire for?
The most active teams are project & program management, specialized engineering, and project management. DKS Associates's postings focus on transportation planning, roadway design, safety engineering, and project management, including senior project manager and practice leader titles. Most postings are manager level or above, reflecting the consultancy's emphasis on experienced engineers and planners who can lead client-facing projects.
Are DKS Associates jobs remote or in-person?
Mostly on-site. About 0% of DKS Associates's open roles on Migrate Mate are remote or hybrid as of August 31, 2026, with the rest based in Sacramento. Each DKS Associates listing shows its work location so you can filter before applying.
How do I apply to a job at DKS Associates?
Find a DKS Associates role on Migrate Mate, then follow the listing through to DKS Associates's own careers page to submit your application directly. DKS Associates manages its own hiring process, so applications go straight to their internal team.
What do DKS Associates jobs pay?
Listed salaries for DKS Associates roles on Migrate Mate range from about $146,000 to $230,000 per year as of August 31, 2026, with most postings at manager level or above. Exact pay is set by DKS Associates and shown on each listing.
Does DKS Associates hire entry-level?
Most of DKS Associates's open roles on Migrate Mate are manager level or above as of August 31, 2026. Entry-level openings are limited. Check individual DKS Associates listings for stated experience requirements.
Where is DKS Associates hiring?
Most DKS Associates roles are based in Sacramento, with some in Salem and Seattle, and about 0% offer remote or hybrid work as of August 31, 2026. Migrate Mate shows the location on each listing.