Job Description
- The successful candidate is likely to be a Professional or near-Professional Engineer having 8 to 12 years work experience including at least 2 years in managing multi-disciplinary Project, Core Design experience.
- Ensuring technical delivery of highway designs to budget, quality and program constraints for the US and/or international market.
- Familiarity with US /UK highway and standards is desirable.
- Proficiency in Open Roads, Inroads, Civil3D Micro-Station, In Roads, and/or Geopak /similar design software.
- Applied knowledge and understanding with DMRB, AASHTO, MUTCD, and FHWA Standards/Specifications/Guidelines.
- Proficiency in MS Outlook, and MS office (Excel, Word, Power Point) is expected.
- Cultural awareness, an open mind and excellent English communication skills are essential requirements for the role.
- The role will include, technical guidance, project management and work brief preparation to enable the team to produce detailed designs for technical approval.
- A thorough understanding and/or experience of using 3-dimensional highway design software such as In-Roads, Open Roads, Civil3d, Inroads and/or Geopak design software would be a distinct advantage.
- You can expect to be actively managing technical design delivery for number of US projects at any given time; a major element of the role will be to liaise with WSP's US based lead design teams to ensure project delivery to agreed delivery schedule, quality and budget constraints. You will also be required to work with other locally based team leaders to ensure resources are fully utilized, identified and addressed effectively and any surplus or shortfall in available staff/workload are identified timely.
- In leading the design process, you will be expected to set clear goals for the team members, monitoring their progress closely and encouraging them to deliver appropriate and cost-effective solutions to the agreed program. You will also be expected to support those more inexperienced by technical review, mentoring and advice.
The role may include short term secondment and/or visits to WSP's US offices for better understanding of WSP's business, assist with acclimatization to WSP methods of working.
Mandatory Skills
Transportation Engineering, Highway engineering, expressway, urban road, detail design, Project Management, Openroads Civil3D, MUTCD, AASHTO, DMRB, communication, client interaction, global experience, MNC experience, global Projects,
Desirable Skills
highway engineering, expressway, urban road, detail design, Project Management, Openroads Civil3D,MUTCD, AASHTO, DMRB, communication, client interaction, global experience, MNC experience, global Projects, Highway Design, project management
