Senior Technical Transportation Engineer

About the role

This Opportunity WSP is currently initiating a search for a Senior Technical Transportation Engineer with experience in Highway design to join our dynamic Civil Engineering group in Mid Mid-Atlantic District. The candidate may be located in: Washington, DC, Philadelphia, PA, Herndon, VA, Baltimore, MD, Virginia Beach, VA or Richmond, VA.

Responsibilities

• Design and plan production
• Project management support responsibilities
• Supporting flagship infrastructure programs across the transportation, transit, site, and environmental sectors
• Leading technical design programs
• Facilitating client engagement sessions
• Reinforcing internal design standards
• Identifying future contract opportunities
• Leading and managing large-scale heavy civil engineering projects
• Ensuring contributors know what they are required to do and by when
• Preparing and overseeing relevant project budgets
• Monitoring external events, tracking hours and expenses, ensuring satisfactory performance, and supervising subcontractors, contract work, and employees
• Providing subject matter technical support and leadership for multi-site/phased heavy civil programs
• Partnering with senior team to grow the technical expertise across the region
• Providing oversight with collecting, compiling, and analyzing data from the physical work site, surveys, blueprints, GIS data, subsurface utility information, maps, hydrologic analysis, geotechnical data, and other matrices for project development, design, and construction
• Performing professional civil engineering work and conducting more complex/comprehensive investigations and inspections of proposed and existing site conditions, resources, facilities, water supply, pipelines, pollution sources, building, transportation channels, and power plants to determine conformance with applicable rules, standards, and construction or operating permits
• Overseeing the development and implementation of advanced technologies, monitoring devices, building materials, modeling techniques, design requirements, and operating strategies to account for the safety and functionality or end-users, transportation vehicles/systems, and implementing future-ready solutions with civil engineering design standards
• Coordinating work within the team, leading projects, and being on site as required for meetings with clients and mentoring staff
• Remaining current in latest civil engineering techniques and practices
• Collaborating with professionals from a variety of disciplines, other engineers, planners, and infrastructure authorities on Federal, State, regional, and locally funded improvement and development projects, as well as proposal and business development opportunities
• Exercising responsible and ethical decision-making regarding company funds, resources and conduct, and adhering to WSP’s Code of Conduct and related policies and procedures
• Performing additional responsibilities as required by business needs

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, or closely related discipline
• 10+ years of relevant post education experience in engineering and civil design
• P.E. license required (multi-state preferred)
• Proficient with civil engineering principles, practices, process, design/build, and the application to permitting and project work-related issues
• Experience with infrastructure planning, design, and program/construction management; including project involvement in a variety of rehabilitation and reconstruction, new design, and construction projects
• Strong knowledge of relevant civil construction laws, codes, regulations, compliance practices, and record-keeping requirements
• Proficient with making technical computations and calculations involving the application of engineering principles, understanding plans and specifications, and making factual comparisons to the appropriate regulations
• Experience with planning and conducting inspections and investigations on various aspects of the construction and design of facilities or structures, applying applicable regulations and policies
• Effective interpersonal and communication skills when interacting with others, expressing intricate ideas effectively and professionally to an engineering and non-engineering audience
• Strong self-leadership and interpersonal communication skills with the ability to effectively, persuasively, and tactfully interact with clients, regulators, project managers, and employees at all levels of the organization
• Proficient with technical writing, office automation, discipline-specific design software (i.e., MicroStation, AutoCAD, Civil 3D, ArcGIS, InRoads, Geopak, GeoSlope, ANSYS, STADD, HEC-RAS, HEC-HMS), technology, math principles, predictive models, spreadsheets, and tools
• Experienced with providing critical review for documents and preparing technical deliverables and plans with a high degree of complexity
• Demonstrated effectiveness at coordinating and assertively directing subcontractors and others to consistently complete tasks safely and efficiently
• Proven track record of upholding workplace safety and ability to abide by WSP’s health, safety and drug/alcohol and harassment policies
• Flexible to a variety of schedules to meet business needs and able to prioritize responsibilities and quickly adapt to change in a pressure work environment

Qualifications

• Master’s Degree in Engineering (Graduate Level Courses, Masters, PhD)
• Enhancing credentials and certifications

Skills

• Highly proficient with civil engineering principles, practices, process, design/build, and the application to permitting and project work-related issues
• Highly proficient with infrastructure design
• Highly proficient with infrastructure planning, design, and program/construction management
• Highly proficient with making technical computations and calculations involving the application of engineering principles, understanding plans and specifications, and making factual comparisons to the appropriate regulations
• Highly proficient with planning and conducting inspections and investigations on various aspects of the construction and design of facilities or structures, applying applicable regulations and policies
• Highly effective interpersonal and communication skills when interacting with others, expressing intricate ideas effectively and professionally to an engineering and non-engineering audience
• Highly proficient with technical writing, office automation, discipline-specific design software (i.e., MicroStation, AutoCAD, Civil 3D, ArcGIS, InRoads, Geopak, GeoSlope, ANSYS, STADD, HEC-RAS, HEC-HMS), technology, math principles, predictive models, spreadsheets, and tools
• Highly experienced with providing critical review for documents and preparing technical deliverables and plans with a high degree of complexity
• Highly demonstrated effectiveness at coordinating and assertively directing subcontractors and others to consistently complete tasks safely and efficiently
• Highly proven track record of upholding workplace safety and ability to abide by WSP’s health, safety and drug/alcohol and harassment policies
• Highly flexible to a variety of schedules to meet business needs and able to prioritize responsibilities and quickly adapt to change in a pressure work environment

Benefits

WSP provides a comprehensive suite of benefits focused on providing health and financial stability throughout the employee’s career. These benefits include coverage related to medical, dental, vision, disability, and life; retirement savings; paid sick leave; paid vacation (or other personal time); paid parental leave; and paid time off for purposes of bereavement, voting, and/or attendance at naturalization proceedings.

Pay

Expected Salary (all locations): $111,200.00- $198,300.00

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Contact Information

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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.

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