Assistant Vice President, Geotechnical Engineering Manager

WSP is currently initiating a search for an Assistant Vice President, Geotechnical Engineering Manager for our Louisville, Kentucky office. This leadership opportunity is ideal for a highly experienced geotechnical professional who combines deep technical expertise with proven people leadership, business development, and operational management experience. The successful candidate will play a critical role in growing WSP's geotechnical practice, developing high-performing teams, strengthening client relationships, and delivering innovative infrastructure solutions that support long‑term business success.

As a member of regional leadership, you will help shape strategy, drive operational excellence, and foster a culture of collaboration, accountability, and technical excellence. In this role, you will provide subject matter expertise, technical leadership, and strategic guidance for multi‑site and multi‑phase due diligence, investigation, remediation, impact assessment, permitting, design, and construction projects for public and private sector clients. Responsibilities include research, design, concept development, planning, and construction support for facilities, roads, buildings, tunnels, dams, canals, levees, bridges, water supply systems, underground storage facilities, and wastewater treatment infrastructure.

You will collaborate with multidisciplinary teams, clients, and stakeholders to deliver resilient infrastructure solutions that support sustainable growth while meeting the highest standards of safety, quality, technical excellence, and innovation. As a trusted advisor and leader, you will help drive project success, mentor emerging professionals, lead business growth initiatives, and contribute to the ongoing expansion and development of WSP's geotechnical practice.

• Provide oversight with collecting, compiling, and analyzing data from physical work sites, soil, water, sludge, and rock samples, surveys, blueprints, GIS data, subsurface utility information, maps, hydrologic analyses, geotechnical data, and other sources for project development, design, and construction.
• Apply advanced geotechnical engineering techniques and processes to support complex infrastructure projects through concept development, preliminary design, final design, procurement, construction, and operations.
• Perform professional geotechnical engineering work and lead complex investigations and inspections of proposed and existing site conditions, including subsurface investigations, foundation engineering, settlement analysis, soil erosion, lateral earth pressures, geological hazards, groundwater conditions, and slope stability assessments.
• Develop construction plans, specifications, cost estimates, construction safety plans, and phasing plans while coordinating with project owners, internal disciplines, subconsultants, and clients.
• Lead projects from planning through construction, including grading, drainage, foundation systems, retaining structures, embankments, and other geotechnical elements supported by soil and rock mechanics.
• Support the advancement and implementation of innovative engineering approaches, monitoring technologies, modeling techniques, and future‑ready design solutions that enhance infrastructure performance and resilience.
• Lead and oversee a portfolio of geotechnical projects, including project planning, financial performance, budget management, resource allocation, staffing, schedule development, risk mitigation, and quality assurance to achieve operational and business objectives.
• Review permit applications, design plans, specifications, engineering contracts, and construction activities to ensure compliance with applicable regulations and sound engineering…