Senior Resident Engineer/Onsite A/E Technical Lead

About the role

This Opportunity WSP is currently initiating a search for a Senior Resident Engineer/Onsite A/E Technical Lead to support the U.S. Navy’s Multi-Mission Dry Dock (M2D2) recapitalization program at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard & Intermediate Maintenance Facility (PSNS & IMF) in Bremerton, Washington.

Responsibilities

• Provide senior onsite A/E technical leadership for a mission-critical Navy mega-project.
• Review contractor submittals, shop drawings, requests for information, technical proposals, design change packages, and field-related technical issues for consistency with the contract documents.
• Cookordination technical responses with responsible Designer-of-Record discipline leads and home-office A/E teams.
• Evaluate technical adequacy, constructability, maintainability, operability, and potential impacts to cost, schedule, safety, and shipyard operations.
• Support construction quality assurance teams through technical interpretation of design intent and contract requirements.
• Participate in selected preparatory meetings, field observations, pre-final inspections, final inspections, and turnover-related reviews.
• Provide technical recommendations to support Government decisions regarding acceptance, nonconforming work, corrective actions, and closeout.
• Identify emerging technical, construction, interface, turnover, and operational risks during mobilization and construction.
• Support mitigation strategies, recovery approaches, and decision options for high-consequence issues.
• Help evaluate schedule recovery plans, value engineering proposals, alternative technical concepts, change-order technical merit, and technical impacts of proposed contract changes.
• Serve as the senior onsite A/E technical liaison among OICC PSNS, NAVFAC, NAVSEA, PSNS & IMF, Designer-of-Record teams, construction management representatives, contractors, utilities, environmental stakeholders, and other program participants.
• Cookordinate onsite WSP representatives, JV partner representatives, deputy resident engineers, RFI/submittal support staff, risk and controls staff, schedulers, project controllers, and visiting technical discipline leads.
• Mentor onsite technical staff and promote consistent review practices, documentation standards, and issue escalation protocols.
• Support preparation and quality review of field observation reports, technical issue papers, decision logs, action logs, and leadership briefings.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, construction management, architecture, or equivalent.
• 12+ years of relevant experience supporting large, complex construction programs, with significant experience in resident engineering, construction-phase A/E services, design management during construction, or senior field technical support.
• Dual citizenship is not allowed if prohibited by project security requirements.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. Government Secret-level security clearance and required PSNS & IMF (NAVSEA) site access credentials.
• Professional Engineer registration in a U.S. state, or ability to obtain registration within an agreed timeframe, if required for the assigned scope.
• Experience with heavy civil, marine, waterfront, industrial, infrastructure, utility, or federal construction projects.
• Working knowledge of NAVFAC, DoD, UFC, UFGS, federal construction administration, and Government construction-phase processes.
• Experience reviewing RFIs, submittals, shop drawings, contractor technical proposals, design change packages, field changes, and construction-phase technical issues.
• Ability to coordinate multidisciplinary technical input and communicate practical recommendations to senior client, project, and construction stakeholders.
• Strong judgment, written communication, briefing, negotiation, documentation, and issue-resolution skills under time-constrained conditions.
• Ability, with or without reasonable accommodation, to perform essential field-related duties, including traversing large active construction sites with uneven terrain; accessing waterfront, marine, industrial, and confined-space work areas; boarding and disembarking boats or similar vessels; climbing stairs, ladders, and temporary access systems; and lifting or carrying equipment and materials consistent with project and safety requirements.
• Valid driver’s license and an acceptable driving record, consistent with company policy, to support use of company vehicles or rental vehicles for project-related travel and site access.

Qualifications

• U.S. citizenship is required.
• Experience with multi-prime, multi-package, design-build, and design-bid-build construction delivery in constrained operating environments.
• Experience with eCMS or comparable construction document management systems.
• Experience supporting turnover, commissioning, beneficial occupancy, red-zone, punch list, closeout, or operational readiness processes.
• Demonstrated ability to brief senior Government, military, executive, and technical stakeholders on complex issues in plain language.

Skills

• Technical expertise in heavy civil, marine, waterfront, industrial, infrastructure, utility, or federal construction projects.
• Strong judgment, written communication, briefing, negotiation, documentation, and issue-resolution skills under time-constrained conditions.
• Ability to coordinate multidisciplinary technical input and communicate practical recommendations to senior client, project, and construction stakeholders.
• Ability, with or without reasonable accommodation, to perform essential field-related duties, including traversing large active construction sites with uneven terrain; accessing waterfront, marine, industrial, and confined-space work areas; boarding and disembarking boats or similar vessels; climbing stairs, ladders, and temporary access systems; and lifting or carrying equipment and materials consistent with project and safety requirements.
• Valid driver’s license and an acceptable driving record, consistent with company policy, to support use of company vehicles or rental vehicles for project-related travel and site access.

Benefits

• Comprehensive suite of benefits focused on providing health and financial stability throughout the employee’s career.
• Coverage related to medical, dental, vision, disability, and life.
• Retirement savings.
• Paid sick leave.
• Paid vacation (or other personal time).
• Paid parental leave.
• Paid time off for purposes of bereavement, voting, and/or attendance at naturalization proceedings.

Pay

Expected Salary (all locations): $163,800 - $212,000

Schedule

Initial assignment is anticipated from WSP’s Tacoma or Seattle office beginning in Q3 or Q4 of calendar year 2026. Full-time onsite support at PSNS & IMF in Bremerton, Washington is anticipated beginning in Q2 or Q3 of calendar year 2027. The role requires regular presence in active construction, waterfront, marine, industrial, and secure Navy work areas. The role may require support for critical meetings, outages, inspections, construction milestones, or issue resolution outside normal business hours.

About WSP

WSP USA is the U.S. operating company of WSP, one of the world's leading engineering and professional services firms. Dedicated to serving local communities, we are engineers, planners, technical experts, strategic advisors and construction management professionals. WSP USA designs lasting solutions in the buildings, transportation, energy, water and environment markets. With more than 15,000 employees in over 300 offices across the U.S., we partner with our clients to help communities prosper.

ABOUT US WSP USA is an Equal Opportunity Employer Race/Age/Color/Religion/Sex/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity/National Origin/Disability or Protected Veteran Status. The selected candidate must be authorized to work in the United States.

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