# Senior Tunneling Design Unit Engineer

**Company**: WSP
**Location**: San Jose, CA
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $107,500 - $150,000
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Consulting

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## Description

WSP is seeking a Senior Tunneling Design Unit Engineer to join their Transportation team in California. This role will be based in a client office in San Jose.

The successful candidate will be program management staff embedded within the contractor's design-build team to act as a liaison for a given design unit (DU). Key responsibilities include:

- Overseeing the development of tunnel lining, precast concrete manufacturing, TBM laydown, muck disposal, and tunneling work plans

- Coordinating with Contractor's teams and external parties, such as BART, Caltrans, Caltrain, UPRR, and City of Santa Clara

- Integrating into Contractor's Design Unit teams and coordinating directly with Contractor's DU Managers

- Being fully aware of all design development progress, focusing on meeting requirements, interface issues, external affairs, right-of-way implications, and environmental considerations

- Serving as a resource to the Contractor's DU Manager for coordination between Construction Contract Packages (CP) and with VTA organization

- Reporting to Contract Package 2 (CP2) management on issues within DUs that need to be addressed at a program level

- Facilitating coordination between Design Units and other VTA organizations

- Coordinating responses to contractor Request for Information (RFI)

- Facilitating and coordinating external design submittal reviews

- Participating in VTA design submittal reviews

- Remaining current in the latest engineering techniques and practices

- Exercising responsible and ethical decision-making regarding company funds, resources, and conduct

The ideal candidate will have:

- A Bachelor's Degree in Geotechnical Engineering or a closely related discipline

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

- California PE being strongly preferred

- Experience leading the design of large-diameter tunnel linings

- Experience with planning for large-diameter tunneling projects in urban areas

- Experience on projects with project stakeholders

- Understanding of team members' roles and responsibilities to properly act as a liaison between VTA and contractor

- Ability to make technical computations and calculations involving the application of engineering principles

- Project management experience with small to mid-level projects

- Effective interpersonal and communication skills

- Highly capable self-leadership with attention to detail, multi-tasking, and prioritization of responsibilities in a dynamic work environment

- Proficiency with technical writing, office automation, and discipline-specific design software

- Developed critical thinking and problem-solving skills

- Ability to assertively direct others in the field

- Proven track record of upholding workplace safety

WSP provides a comprehensive suite of benefits, including coverage related to medical, dental, vision, disability, and life; retirement savings; paid sick leave; paid vacation; paid parental leave; and paid time off for purposes of bereavement, voting, and/or attendance at naturalization proceedings.

The expected salary range for this position is $107,500 - $150,000.

## Skills

### Required
- Geotechnical Engineering
- tunnel lining design
- large-diameter tunneling projects
- project management
- technical writing
- MicroStation
- AutoCAD
- Civil 3D
- ArcGIS
- InRoads
- Geopak
- GeoSlope
- ANSYS
- STADD
- HEC-RAS
- HEC-HMS

### Nice to have
- California PE

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