Lead Movable Bridge​/Structural Engineer

This Opportunity

Be involved in projects with our Movable Bridge/Complex Bridge/Structural Team and be a part of a growing organization that meets our client's objectives and solves their challenges.

WSP USA’s Movable Bridge Structures group has an immediate opening for a full‑time Lead Movable Bridge /Structural Engineer to join our National Bridges & Structures Practice in our Chicago office, or any office within the US
. This position is for an engineer who is seeking an opportunity to work within a team‑focused local office, for a large world‑wide engineering firm. Career development, mentoring and employee satisfaction is key within our local civil group and the firm. WSP USA Operates with a Hybrid‑Workplace Model.

• Lead design, plan development tasks and perform structural analysis and design

• Actively maintain project scope, design changes and project budget

• Mentoring and developing junior staff

• Ability to provide close coordination with others on the project as well as independent QC/QA reviews

• Visiting clients for growing business and keeping them and other team members well informed

• Manage planning and/or engineering projects including Bridge Design (Fixed and Movable, Highway and Railroad) and Transit structures and similar projects.

• Provide oversight with collecting, compiling, and analyzing data from the physical work site, surveys, blueprints and other matrices for project development, design, and construction.

• Apply high‑level structural and civil engineering techniques and processes

• Remain current in latest structural engineering techniques and practices.

• Oversee and monitor cross‑functional teams of engineers, architects, planners, and scientific professionals to execute project work on mid‑level and/or multiple concurrent projects, including budgets, tracking hours and expenses, task completion, cost and quantities of materials/equipment/labor, technical calculations, permit applications, construction, compliance documentation, and regulatory and technical analysis memos.

• Perform professional structural engineering work and conduct more complex/comprehensive investigations and inspections of proposed and existing site conditions, resources, facilities, pipelines, transportation channels, and operations to determine conformance with applicable rules, standards, and construction or operating permits.

• Develop construction plans, specifications, and cost estimates; preparing construction safety and phasing plans and updating infrastructure layout plans that require coordination with owners, other disciplines, sub‑consultants, and clients.

• Involved from project inception to completion in the management of design, construction, rehabilitation, and remediation of building and infrastructure projects, ensuring durability of materials and structural soundness from loads and pressures caused by environmental or human influence.

• Lead larger‑scale structural engineering projects ensuring contributors know what they are required to do and by when, preparing and overseeing relevant project budgets, monitoring external events, tracking hours and expenses, ensuring satisfactory performance, and supervising subcontractors, contract work and employees.

• Assist with engineering review of permit applications, engineering design plans and specifications, standby plans and engineering contracts, and periodic construction inspections, to ensure that they comply with applicable state and/or federal regulations and sound engineering practice and standards.

• Meet with various public or private entities or individuals to discuss issues relating to a variety of engineering/construction challenges and programs.

• Ensure technical reports and presentations explain research, findings, and recommendations to prevent, control, restore or address design and/or construction issues or opportunities.

• Develop a client base for providing high level structural engineering services including identifying additional business development opportunities.

• Collaborate with professionals from a variety of disciplines, other engineers, and infrastructure authorities on Federal, State, regional, local, and privately funded improvement…