Description
WSP USA is seeking a Lead Professional, Civil Engineering to join our Mid-Atlantic South District civil team. This position will be located in the Washington, DC or Herndon, Virginia office.
The successful candidate will provide technical and project leadership to ensure civil engineering subject matter, technical deliverables, infrastructure projects and programs are delivered with a level of quality that meets or exceeds acceptable industry and company standards for design, safety, and functionality.
Key Responsibilities:
- Provide proactive and strategic leadership as a senior member of the Mid Atlantic civil team
- Perform engineering review of engineering design plans and specifications, estimates, reports and other deliverables
- Perform engineering reviews of transit stations, bus bays, garages, pedestrian pathways, and related facilities
- Assess complex structural and civil engineering elements
- Review audit data collected by ADA Quality Assurance staff
- Conduct systemwide trend analysis to identify recurring accessibility issues
- Develop prioritized remediation plans
- Collaborate with agency departments
- Facilitate discussions with internal stakeholders
- Support the development of dashboards and summaries
- Provide engineering judgment to ensure remediation strategies are technically sound
- Contribute to monthly and annual accessibility compliance reports
- Assist with and/or lead the pursuit and development of business
- Support the overall long-term strategy, growth, and pipeline development of civil engineering work
- Meet with various public or private entities or individuals
- Schedule engineering discipline meetings
- Serve as one of the civil team’s representatives/liaison to external entities
- Develop and inform proposal and project scopes, timelines, pricing, and budgetary metrics
- Interpret and summarize data
- Provide verbal and/or written inputs to multi-disciplinary project teams
- Mentor staff
- Manage and provide performance guidance and leadership to assigned staff
- Remain current in latest civil engineering techniques and practices
- Collaborate with professionals from a variety of disciplines
- Exercise responsible and ethical decision-making
Requirements:
- Professional Engineer license in VA, MD, or DC required
- Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering, or closely related discipline
- 10+ years of relevant post education experience in engineering, civil and infrastructure design
- Advanced proficiency with infrastructure design
- Strong working knowledge of relevant civil construction laws, codes, regulations, compliance practices
- Advanced proficiency with making technical computations and calculations
- Excellent leadership and interpersonal communication skills
- Tactical lateral thinking and strong analytical skills
- Ability to elicit cooperation from a wide variety of sources
- Proven track record of upholding workplace safety
- Strong ability to quickly adapt to change
Preferred Qualifications:
- Strong experience in managing the review and approval of documents
- Experience with DC specific agencies, counties/localities standards and projects
- Familiarity with MS Project, Primavera or similar scheduling software
- Affiliations with professional societies and active industry and community involvement
Benefits:
- Comprehensive suite of benefits focused on providing health and financial stability
- Coverage related to medical, dental, vision, disability, and life
- Retirement savings
- Paid sick leave
- Paid vacation
- Paid parental leave
- Paid time off for purposes of bereavement, voting, and/or attendance at naturalization proceedings
Compensation:
- Expected Salary: $122,700 - $182,200