Senior Technical Transportation Engineer

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. The ideal candidate should have experience in the design of highways, roadway geometric design, roadway plan production, and drainage design for traditional delivery and/or alternative delivery projects. Responsibilities include design and plan production and project management support responsibilities. The successful candidate will have a comprehensive range of roadway design experience related to transportation infrastructure projects which may include geometric design, complete streets, temporary traffic control, and highway design.

This role will be a key contributor in assisting in daily activities and mentoring of our transportation team.

Primary duties would center on supporting flagship infrastructure programs across the transportation, transit, site, and environmental sectors. Ideal candidates would be responsible for leading technical design programs, facilitating client engagement sessions, reinforcing internal design standards, and identifying future contract opportunities. Candidate will partner with senior team to grow the technical expertise across the region.

Candidate will be expected to provide subject matter technical support and leadership for multi-site/phased heavy civil programs including site layout, roadway, MOT, grading, drainage, stormwater management, utility and erosion & sediment control across the public and private sectors.

• Develop construction plans, specifications, reports and cost estimates; preparing construction safety and phasing plans and updating infrastructure layout plans that require coordination with owners, other disciplines, sub-consultants, and clients in accordance with required level of effort and detail at deliverable milestone.
• Approve and sign-off on work.
• Lead client facing engagement sessions centered on technical memoranda.
• Lead and manage 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.
• Assist with engineering review of permit applications, engineering design plans and specifications, standby plans and engineering contracts, integrated waste management plans, and periodic construction inspections, to ensure that they comply with applicable state and/or federal regulations and sound engineering practice and standards.
• Meet with various public or private entities or individuals to discuss issues relating to a variety of engineering/construction challenges and programs.
• Ensure technical reports and presentations explain research, findings, and recommendations to prevent, control, restore, or address engineering, design, and/or construction issues or opportunities.
• Develop a client base for providing high level civil engineering services including identifying additional business development opportunities.
• Mentor staff to support their growth and professional development.
• Provide 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.
• Apply high-level civil engineering techniques and processes to identify improvements for various infrastructure project phases involving more complex infrastructure and transportation engineering work including concept development, preliminary design, final design, procurement, construction, and operation.
• Perform professional civil engineering work and conduct 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.
• Involved from project inception to completion in the management of design and construction of infrastructure projects, including rehabilitation and reconstruction, grading, drainage, pavement design, specifications, building materials, phasing, and construction safety plans.
• Oversees 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.
• Coordinate work within the team, lead…