Senior Technical Manager, Structural Engineering

Senior Technical Manager, Structural Engineering

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WSP is currently initiating a search for a Senior Technical Manager, Structural Engineer for our Lawrenceville, NJ Office Location. Be involved in projects with our Transportation Team and be a part of a growing organization that meets our client’s objectives and solves their challenges. At WSP, we are driven by inspiring the right people to be part of our future-focused business objectives.

Our devotion to teamwork has allowed us to build community and expand our skylines. Here at WSP, anything is within our reach - and yours as a WSP employee. Come join us and help shape the future!

Your Impact

• Projects which are currently active include work on bridges, sign structures, and ancillary structures for NJDOT, NJTA, and other agencies.
• We support design and construction support services including site visits to verify design constraints or assess construction conditions.

Provides subject matter technical support and leadership for multi-site/phase due diligence, investigation, remediation, improvement, and/or construction of building and infrastructure projects in the public and private sector. Responsibilities include the research, design, concept development, planning, and construction of load-bearing structures or structural elements, such as bridges, ancillary structures, roadways, and mechanical structures. Provides situational guidance to PMs and managers that address current and future challenges, and that documentation and recommendations accurately account for and address risk, innovation, and future-ready opportunities.

Provides leadership with ensuring that responsibilities are delivered and adhered to with a level of quality that meets or exceeds acceptable industry standards for design, safety, structural soundness, and functionality.

Job Duties and Responsibilities

• 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 structural and civil engineering techniques and processes to identify improvements for various infrastructure project phases involving more complex building, infrastructure, and transportation engineering work including concept development, preliminary design, final design, procurement, construction, and operation.
• Perform professional structural engineering work and conduct more complex/comprehensive investigations and inspections of proposed and existing site conditions, resources, buildings, facilities, pipelines, transportation channels, and operations to determine conformance with applicable rules, standards, and construction or operating permits.
• Develop construction plans, specifications, 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.
• Involved from project inception to completion in the management of design, construction, rehabilitation, and remediation of infrastructure projects, ensuring durability of materials and structural soundness from loads and pressures caused by environmental or human influence.
• 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 structural and civil engineering design standards.
• Lead larger-scale structural 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…