Senior Technical Transportation Engineer

Job Description

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 the 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, project management support, and mentoring of our transportation team. The role will be a key contributor in assisting in daily activities and driving leadership across the region.

Primary duties will center on supporting flagship infrastructure programs across transportation, transit, site, and environmental sectors. Candidate will be responsible for leading technical design programs, facilitating client engagement sessions, reinforcing internal design standards, and identifying future contract opportunities. The candidate will partner with the senior team to grow technical expertise across the region and provide subject‑matter support for multi‑site heavy civil programs.

• Develop construction plans, specifications, reports, and cost estimates; prepare construction safety and phasing plans and update infrastructure layout plans in coordination with owners, other disciplines, subcontractors, and clients.
• 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, design plans and specifications, standby plans, engineering contracts, integrated waste management plans, and periodic construction inspections to ensure compliance with applicable regulations and sound engineering practice.
• Meet with various public or private entities or individuals to discuss issues relating to engineering and 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 complex infrastructure and transportation engineering work.
• Perform professional civil engineering work and conduct comprehensive investigations of proposed and existing site conditions, resources, facilities, and power plants to determine conformance with applicable rules and permits.
• Manage design and construction of infrastructure projects from inception to completion, including rehabilitation, grading, drainage, pavement design, specifications, phasing, and construction safety plans.
• Oversee the development and implementation of advanced technologies, monitoring devices, modeling techniques, and design requirements to enhance safety and functionality.
• Coordinate work within the team, lead projects, and be on site for meetings with clients and mentoring staff.
• Remain current in the latest civil engineering techniques and practices.
• Collaborate with professionals from a variety of disciplines on federally, state, regional, and locally funded improvement and…