Lead Transportation Engineer

Job Description

This opportunity: WSP is currently initiating a search for a Lead 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 designing highways, roadway geometric design, roadway plan production, and drainage design for traditional and alternative delivery projects. Responsibilities include design and plan production and project management support. 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 transportation, transit, site, and environmental sectors. Ideal candidates would lead technical design programs, facilitate client engagement sessions, reinforce internal design standards, and identify future contract opportunities.

• Develop construction plans, specifications, reports and cost estimates; prepare construction safety and phasing plans; update infrastructure layout plans coordinating with owners, other disciplines, sub‑consultants and clients according to required level of effort and deliverable milestones.
• Lead client‑facing engagement sessions centered on technical memoranda.
• Support / lead large‑scale heavy civil engineering projects ensuring collaborators are aligned on roles and responsibilities of deliverables.
• Assist with engineering review of permit applications, design plans, specifications, standby plans, contracts, integrated waste management plans, and construction inspections to ensure compliance with state and federal regulations and sound engineering practice.
• Ensure technical reports and presentations explain research, findings, and recommendations to prevent, control, restore, or address engineering, design and construction issues or opportunities.
• Collect, compile, and analyze 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 including concept development, preliminary design, final design, procurement, construction, and operation.
• Perform professional civil engineering work and conduct 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 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.
• Oversee the development and implementation of advanced technologies, monitoring devices, building materials, modeling techniques, design requirements, and operating strategies to account for safety and functionality for end‑users, transport vehicles/systems, and future‑ready solutions with civil engineering design standards.
• Coordinate work within the team, lead projects, and be on site as required for meetings with clients and mentoring staff.
• Remain current in latest structural engineering techniques and practices.
• Exercise responsible and ethical decision‑making regarding company funds, resources, and conduct, and adhere to WSP’s Code of Conduct and related policies and procedures.
• Perform additional responsibilities as required by business needs.