What are the responsibilities and job description for the Consultant, Roadway Engineer position at WSP in the U.S.?
Job Description
This Opportunity
WSP is currently initiating a search for a Consultant, Roadway Engineer for our Raleigh, NC office. The successful candidate should have experience in civil/roadway design and plans production for traditional delivery and/or alternative delivery projects. Challenge your expertise with the opportunity to work alongside Transportation experts that are leading the way on innovative projects in North Carolina, the Southeast Region, and beyond.
Work locally, think globally. This position is best suited for an engineer who is seeking an opportunity to work within a team-focused local office, for a large world-wide engineering firm. Join our Southeast Transportation Team and be a part of a growing organization that works together to solve problems and meet our client’s objectives. WSP and our local office prioritizes career development, mentoring, and employee satisfaction.
Your Impact
Required Qualifications
ABOUT US
WSP USA is the U.S. operating company of WSP, one of the world's leading engineering and professional services firms. Dedicated to serving local communities, we are engineers, planners, technical experts, strategic advisors and construction management professionals. WSP USA designs lasting solutions in the buildings, transportation, energy, water and environment markets. With more than 15,000 employees in over 300 offices across the U.S., we partner with our clients to help communities prosper.
www.wsp.com
WSP provides a flexible and agile workplace model while meeting client needs. Employees are also afforded a comprehensive suite of benefits including medical, dental, vision, disability, life, and retirement savings focused on providing health and financial stability throughout the employee’s career.
At WSP, we want to give our employees the challenges they seek to grow their careers and knowledge base. Your daily contributions to your team will be essential in meeting client objectives, goals and challenges. Are you ready to get started?
WSP USA (and all of its U.S. companies) is an Equal Opportunity Employer Race/Age/Color/Religion/Sex/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity/National Origin/Disability or Protected Veteran Status.
The selected candidate must be authorized to work in the United States.
Notice To Third Party Agencies
WSP does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruiters, employment agencies, or other staffing services. Unsolicited resumes include any resume or hiring document sent to WSP in the absence of a signed Service Agreement where WSP has expressly requested recruitment/staffing services specific to the position at hand. Any unsolicited resumes, including those submitted to hiring managers or other business leaders, will become the property of WSP and WSP will have the right to hire that candidate without reservation – no fee or other compensation will be owed or paid to the recruiter, employment agency, or other staffing service.
This Opportunity
WSP is currently initiating a search for a Consultant, Roadway Engineer for our Raleigh, NC office. The successful candidate should have experience in civil/roadway design and plans production for traditional delivery and/or alternative delivery projects. Challenge your expertise with the opportunity to work alongside Transportation experts that are leading the way on innovative projects in North Carolina, the Southeast Region, and beyond.
Work locally, think globally. This position is best suited for an engineer who is seeking an opportunity to work within a team-focused local office, for a large world-wide engineering firm. Join our Southeast Transportation Team and be a part of a growing organization that works together to solve problems and meet our client’s objectives. WSP and our local office prioritizes career development, mentoring, and employee satisfaction.
Your Impact
- Work collaboratively as part of a multi-discipline team of engineers to execute project work on multiple concurrent projects.
- Review, monitor and/or develop complex layouts, sketches, plans, specifications and estimates, correspondence, and reports for new/widened roadways, intersection improvements, bike and pedestrian facilities.
- Lead project tasks or assist project managers with project coordination and collaboration efforts, including tasks that may require coordination with owners, other disciplines, sub-consultants, and clients.
- Demonstrate advanced corridor modeling techniques and problem-solving skills during the development of the project.
- Coordinate with other design disciplines such as structures, hydraulics, traffic, and utilities, etc.
- Collect, compile, and analyze data from the physical work site, surveys, GIS data, subsurface utility information, maps, geotechnical data, and other matrices for project development, design, and construction.
- Regularly coordinate and communicate with project teams, manager, and civil team. Attend and participate in project team meetings.
- Comply with regulatory requirements pertaining to the data integrity, documentation, procedures, training, monitoring systems, and record compliance and retention.
- Contribute to the preparation of technical reports and presentations that explain research and findings to improve, prevent, control, restore, or address design and/or construction issues or problems.
- Interface with clients as needed and support business development initiatives.
- Assist with preparation of technical proposals, scoping, and labor estimates.
- Establish and maintain cooperative and productive work relationships with employees, clients and other stakeholders.
- Exercise responsible and ethical decision-making regarding company funds, resources and conduct and adhere to WSP's Code of Conduct and related policies and procedures.
- Perform additional responsibilities as required by business needs.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering, or closely related discipline (or equivalent experience).
- 3 to 5 years of relevant post education experience in engineering discipline and prior civil design experience.
- Engineer in Training Certification.
- Familiarity with AASHTO and NCDOT Design Guidelines and Standards.
- Highly proficient of civil engineering principles, practices, process, design/build, and the application to permitting and project work-related issues.
- Experience with infrastructure design, including a variety of rehabilitation and reconstruction, new design, and construction projects.
- Proficiency in MicroStation and OpenRoads Designer/Geopak roadway design software; familiarity with NCDOT CADD/design software setup and standards; familiarity with AutoCAD and Autodesk Civil3D.
- Experience with developing technical computations and calculations involving the application of engineering principles, understanding plans and specifications, and making factual comparisons to the appropriate regulations.
- Highly effective interpersonal and communication skills when interacting with others, expressing intricate ideas effectively and professionally to an engineering and non-engineering audience.
- Demonstrated high-level of self-leadership with attention to detail, multi-tasking, and prioritization of responsibilities in a dynamic work environment.
- Works independently with minimal oversight and provides guidance and leadership to junior team or project members, with strict adherence to QA/QC.
- Proficient with technical writing, office automation, spreadsheets and other design tools.
- Ability and desire to learn new techniques, perform multiple tasks simultaneously, follow instruction, work independently, and comply with company policies.
- Well-developed critical thinking and problem-solving skills required to apply technical knowledge to reach conclusions from testing results, data collation, computations, statistical analysis and arriving at the most effective, economical, and logical solution.
- Commitment to upholding workplace safety and ability to abide by WSP’s health, safety and drug/alcohol and harassment policies.
- Flexible to meet a variety of schedules to meet business needs and able to prioritize responsibilities and quickly adapt to change in a pressure work environment.
- Occasional travel may be required depending on project-specific requirements.
- Essential Professional Licensure/Certification.
- Basic First Aid and Adult CPR training desired.
ABOUT US
WSP USA is the U.S. operating company of WSP, one of the world's leading engineering and professional services firms. Dedicated to serving local communities, we are engineers, planners, technical experts, strategic advisors and construction management professionals. WSP USA designs lasting solutions in the buildings, transportation, energy, water and environment markets. With more than 15,000 employees in over 300 offices across the U.S., we partner with our clients to help communities prosper.
www.wsp.com
WSP provides a flexible and agile workplace model while meeting client needs. Employees are also afforded a comprehensive suite of benefits including medical, dental, vision, disability, life, and retirement savings focused on providing health and financial stability throughout the employee’s career.
At WSP, we want to give our employees the challenges they seek to grow their careers and knowledge base. Your daily contributions to your team will be essential in meeting client objectives, goals and challenges. Are you ready to get started?
WSP USA (and all of its U.S. companies) is an Equal Opportunity Employer Race/Age/Color/Religion/Sex/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity/National Origin/Disability or Protected Veteran Status.
The selected candidate must be authorized to work in the United States.
Notice To Third Party Agencies
WSP does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruiters, employment agencies, or other staffing services. Unsolicited resumes include any resume or hiring document sent to WSP in the absence of a signed Service Agreement where WSP has expressly requested recruitment/staffing services specific to the position at hand. Any unsolicited resumes, including those submitted to hiring managers or other business leaders, will become the property of WSP and WSP will have the right to hire that candidate without reservation – no fee or other compensation will be owed or paid to the recruiter, employment agency, or other staffing service.
