Description
WSP is seeking a Vice President, Geotechnical Engineer for its Civil, Geotechnical Engineering and Materials (CGEM) team in Atlanta, GA.
In this role, you will provide leadership and expertise for the CGEM team, building the business through client engagement and partnerships, developing the team through mentoring and project leadership, and managing and supporting projects in the power, commercial, transportation, and water markets with technical excellence.
Key Responsibilities:
- Provide leadership and expertise for a growing ground engineering practice.
- Develop and retain a client base for providing ground engineering services, including identifying additional business development opportunities, and cross-selling of other WSP capabilities.
- Collaborate across business lines to help develop and support opportunities and projects with ground engineering components.
- Remain current in the latest geotechnical engineering techniques and practices.
- Provide senior-level review and apply advanced geotechnical engineering knowledge to projects.
- Lead geotechnical engineering projects, prepare and oversee project budgets and schedules, ensure satisfactory financial performance and technical quality.
- Mentor staff to support their growth and professional development.
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Geotechnical Engineering, Civil Engineering with a geotechnical focus, or closely related discipline.
- 12+ years of relevant post education experience.
- Professional engineering license in Georgia, or ability to become licensed in Georgia in six months.
- Advanced proficiency with geotechnical engineering principles, practices, process, design/build, standard of care, and the application to project work-related issues.
- Strong working knowledge of relevant engineering and construction codes, laws, regulations, permitting, compliance practices, and record-keeping requirements.
- Excellent leadership and interpersonal communication skills.