# Senior Vice President Geotechnical Engineering

**Company**: WSP
**Location**: Tempe, AZ
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Consulting

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## Description

WSP is currently seeking a Senior Vice President, Geotechnical Engineer for our geotechnical team based in Tempe, AZ.

In this role you will provide leadership and expertise for a geotechnical team executing small to large field programs in transportation, power, property and buildings, and mining.

Responsibilities include:

- Providing leadership and direction for a growing geotechnical practice

- Developing and retaining a client base for providing high-level geotechnical engineering services

- Collaborating across business lines to help develop and support opportunities and projects including geotechnical aspects

- Applying high-level geotechnical engineering techniques and processes to identify improvements for various infrastructure project phases

- Performing professional geotechnical engineering services and conducting complex investigations and inspections of proposed and existing site conditions

- Leading larger-scale geotechnical engineering projects, preparing and overseeing relevant project budgets, monitoring external events, tracking hours and expenses, ensuring satisfactory performance, and supervising subcontractors, contract work, and employees

- Assisting with engineering review of permit applications, engineering design plans and specifications, standby plans and engineering contracts, and periodic construction observation/site visits

- Ensuring technical reports and presentations explain research, findings, and recommendations to prevent, control, restore, or address design and/or construction issues or opportunities

- Meeting with client representatives to discuss issues relating to a variety of engineering/construction challenges and programs

- Mentoring staff to support their growth and professional development

**Requirements:**

- Bachelor's Degree in Geotechnical Engineering, Civil Engineering with geotechnical focus, or closely related discipline

- 15+ years of relevant post-education experience in engineering and geotechnical design

- Professional Engineering License in Arizona, or ability to become licensed in the state of Arizona in 6 months

- Proficient with geotechnical engineering principles, practices, process, design/build, and the application to permitting and project work-related issues

- Experience with planning, design, and program/construction management

- Strong knowledge of relevant construction laws, codes, regulations, permitting, compliance practices, and record-keeping requirements

- Proficiency with technical writing, office automation, discipline-specific design software, technology, math principles, predictive models, spreadsheets, and tools

**Preferred Qualifications:**

- Master's or Doctorate Degree in Geotechnical Engineering

- Knowledge and experience in Western U.S. geographies

- Basic First Aid and Adult CPR training desired

## Skills

### Required
- geotechnical engineering
- civil engineering
- project management
- technical writing
- design software

### Nice to have
- Master's or Doctorate Degree in Geotechnical Engineering
- Western U.S. geographies
- Basic First Aid and Adult CPR training

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