Description
WSP is seeking a Senior Consultant to support its growing Resilience Services Practice. This full-time position is based in one of WSP's offices in Florida, specifically in Miami, Tampa, Jacksonville, Tallahassee, or Sunrise.
The Senior Consultant will play a technical leadership role, leading climate adaptation projects and guiding decisions on resilience investments. The role involves connecting information between the risk analysis team and the engineering/design team and communicating with clients on risk reduction within infrastructure capital investments.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead projects/tasks and project teams on topics including project-level risk assessment, adaptation alternatives, preliminary engineering design, and communication
- Work closely with the risk analysis and engineering teams to advance the Resilience Services Practice through effective data-driven analysis and decision-making
- Prepare data and visualizations such as tables, charts, accurate reports, and illustrations for the interpretation or presentation of data, findings, or analyses
- Maintain quality control standards and procedures for accurate and precise measurements, statistical analysis, and reporting
- Assist with development and scoping of medium-sized projects
- Prepare technical reports and presentations that explain research, findings, and recommendations
- Work with cross-functional teams in executing project work
- Comply with regulatory requirements pertaining to data integrity, documentation, procedures, training, monitoring systems, and record compliance and retention
- Interact with regulatory agencies, subcontractors, and clients in a confident and professional manner
- Exercise responsible and ethical decision-making regarding company funds, resources, and conduct
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree or higher in Stormwater, Civil, or Environmental Engineering or a related engineering field
- 5-8 years of work experience
- Experience working on climate change vulnerability, risk assessments, risk reduction strategies/alternatives
- Proven capabilities for technical project delivery and working with interdisciplinary technical teams
- Experience working both independently and on efforts requiring collaboration, remotely
- Experience communicating technical analysis and results to non-technical audiences
Preferred Qualifications:
- Professional Engineer (P.E.), or Engineering Intern (E.I.)
- Experience working with hazard data, analyzing the impacts to assets, infrastructure, and communities caused by climate-related hazards
- Understanding of the US Army Corps Depth-Damage functions to estimate losses
- Familiarity with the Florida DOT alternatives analysis and preliminary design processes
- Familiarity with outputs of modeling (like StormWise), risk assessment (FEMA’s HAZUS) software