What are the responsibilities and job description for the Resident Engineer position at WSP in the U.S.?
Job Description
This Opportunity
WSP is currently initiating a searchfor a Resident Engineer to join our Construction Management Team in the New York City area. Be involved in projects with our Construction Management Team and be a part of a growing team that meets our client’s objectives and solves their challenges.
Your Impact
Required Qualifications
WSP provides a comprehensive suite of benefits focused on a providing health and financial stability throughout the employee’s career. These benefits include coverage related to medical, dental, vision, disability, and life; retirement savings; paid sick leave; paid vacation (or other personal time); paid parental leave; and paid time off for purposes of bereavement, voting, and/or attendance at naturalization proceedings.
Compensation:
Expected Salary (all locations): $97,100 - $198,200
WSP USA is providing the compensation range that the company in good faith believes it might pay and offer for this position, based on the successful applicant’s education, experience, knowledge, skills, abilities in addition to internal equity and specific geographic location. WSP USA reserves the right to ultimately pay more or less than the posted range and offer additional benefits and other compensation, depending on circumstances not related to an applicant’s sex or other status protected by local, state, and/or federal law.
About WSP
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 searchfor a Resident Engineer to join our Construction Management Team in the New York City area. Be involved in projects with our Construction Management Team and be a part of a growing team that meets our client’s objectives and solves their challenges.
Your Impact
- Knowledgeable in supervision, able to coordinate the work of Construction Services staff.
- Manage, coordinate, and supervise projects in accordance with contract documents, plans, Federal, State, and local specifications.
- Verify and review project documentation for acceptance including pay applications, change orders, submittals, shop drawings, cost reduction proposals, traffic control modifications, and others.
- Supervise, develop and train construction inspectors, laboratory technicians and other construction support staff assigned to a project.
- Responsible for directing, monitoring, assigning, and evaluating the work of a project and assigned staff.
- Supervise and conduct the inspection and review of work in accordance with applicable codes and standards included in the project drawings and specifications
- Monitors quality control and quality assurance material field testing for concrete, steel, asphalt and soils as applicable
- Responsible for field measurements of acceptable work and compiling quantity reports for payment of quantities and changes in the work
- Reviews inspector daily reports in accordance with the project's requirements
- Provides technical leadership for complex construction management projects or programs
- Apply diversified knowledge of construction engineering principles and practices and independently making decisions on significant construction engineering problems.
- Manages technical field staff
- Responsible for field engineering, contract administration, inspection, testing, surveying, and quality control on one large or several small construction projects.
- Supervises field inspection and field office personnel
- Manages sub-consultants
- Represents projects at meetings and conferences
Required Qualifications
- Bachelors Degree in a relevant field of study (e.g. Construction Management, Civil Engineering, Construction Technology, etc.)
- Minimum of 10 years of directly relevant experience, including Resident Engineer, Project Engineer or related roles
- Licensed professional engineer in New York or ability to become licensed in NY within 3 months of hire.
- Demonstrated ability to read and completely understand contract documents
- Working knowledge of applicable codes, standards, and materials
- Effective oral and written communication skills
- Valid, current New York Driver's license
- 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
- Proven track record of upholding workplace safety and ability to abide by WSP’s health, safety and drug/alcohol and harassment policies
- Project Engineer Skills
- A working knowledge of applicable codes, standards, and material
- Bridge and highway construction inspection experience
- New York experience preferred (NYSDOT projects)
- Ability to read and completely understand contract documents is required.
- Effective oral and written communication skills.
WSP provides a comprehensive suite of benefits focused on a providing health and financial stability throughout the employee’s career. These benefits include coverage related to medical, dental, vision, disability, and life; retirement savings; paid sick leave; paid vacation (or other personal time); paid parental leave; and paid time off for purposes of bereavement, voting, and/or attendance at naturalization proceedings.
Compensation:
Expected Salary (all locations): $97,100 - $198,200
WSP USA is providing the compensation range that the company in good faith believes it might pay and offer for this position, based on the successful applicant’s education, experience, knowledge, skills, abilities in addition to internal equity and specific geographic location. WSP USA reserves the right to ultimately pay more or less than the posted range and offer additional benefits and other compensation, depending on circumstances not related to an applicant’s sex or other status protected by local, state, and/or federal law.
About WSP
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.
Salary : $97,100 - $198,200