Vice President Civil Engineer - NYC Transportation
$160,300–$240,790 year
On-siteNew York City, New York, United States or New York, United States
Job Summary
Provide strategic leadership for the civil engineering discipline, ensuring project deliverables meet industry standards for design, safety, and functionality while maintaining compliance with all local, state, and federal regulations. Lead large-scale infrastructure projects by overseeing budgets, monitoring external events, supervising subcontractors, and managing contract negotiations. Review permit applications, engineering designs, and construction inspections to validate adherence to sound engineering practices and regulatory requirements. Develop proposal scopes, timelines, and pricing metrics, serving as a primary liaison to government agencies, clients, and industry groups. Mentor staff, drive innovation within the team, and provide high-level strategic advice to clients while adapting to varying schedules and occasional travel.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, or closely related discipline.
- 12+ years of relevant post education experience in engineering, civil and infrastructure design.
- Professional Engineer license in New York required.
- Experience in delivering projects for New York public agencies including but not limited to the MTA, NYSDOT, NYSTA, NYCDOT, NYCDDC and Port Authority of NY & NJ.
- Advanced proficiency with civil engineering principles, practices, process, design/build, standard of care, and the application to permitting and project work-related issues.
- Advanced proficiency with infrastructure design.
- Strong working knowledge of relevant civil construction laws, codes, regulations, compliance practices, and record-keeping requirements, and the business impact upon the organization.
- Advanced proficiency with making technical computations and calculations involving the application of engineering principles, understanding plans and specifications and making factual comparisons to the appropriate regulations.
- Works independently and provides guidance and leadership to mid-level to senior level team or project members, with strict adherence to QA/QC.
- Excellent leadership and interpersonal communication skills with the ability to effectively, persuasively, and tactfully interact with employees at all levels of the organization.
- Tactical lateral thinking and strong analytical skills with attention to detail and prioritization of responsibilities in a pressure work environment.
- Ability to elicit cooperation from a wide variety of sources, including senior management, clients, regulators, and company-wide staff, including those with whom no formal hierarchical relationship exits.
- Advanced proficiency with office automation, discipline-specific design software (i.e. Autodesk Civil 3D, Bentley MicroStation, Bentley OpenRoads Designer, etc.) technology, math principles, predictive models, spreadsheets, and tools.
- Proven track record of upholding workplace safety and ability to abide by WSP's health, safety and drug/alcohol and harassment policies.
- Strong ability to quickly adapt to change and demonstrate flexibility to a variety of schedules and hours to meet business needs.
- Occasional travel may be required depending on project-specific requirements.
Desired Qualifications
- Strong experience in managing the review and approval of documents and discipline-specific deliverables, certifications, processes, and plans in a multi-project environment is highly desirable.
- Prior Project Management experience.
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