This Opportunity
This Opportunity
WSP is currently initiating a search for a Senior ITS Specialist for our Virginia Beach office. The following locations will also be considered: Richmond . Be involved in projects with our Southern Virginia Traffic Team and be a part of a growing organization that meets our clients' objectives and solves their challenges.
Your Impact
Develop and design innovative concepts for strategic intersection and corridor improvements, including near term initiatives and longer-term capital improvement projects and studies that require coordination with authorities, sub-consultants, and clients.
Perform professional traffic engineering work and conduct investigations and inspections of proposed and existing site conditions, pedestrian and bicycle facilities, roadways, intersections, signage, signals, pavement markings, and transportation corridors to determine conformance with applicable best practices, standards, and construction or operating permits.
Develop and incorporate advanced technologies, monitoring devices, modeling techniques, design requirements, and operating strategies to account for the safety and functionality or end-users, transportation vehicles/systems, and implementing future-ready solutions with traffic engineering design standards.
Develop, Coordinate, and review traffic design plans, ensuring data integrity and work is compliant with all applicable best practices, codes, ordinances, and regulations.
Serve as lead traffic engineer on transportation planning, concept plan development, and feasibility studies of highway, bridge and other transportation facilities projects.
May provide support for transportation projects in other WSP offices. Occasional travel may be required.
Support related TSMO and ITS projects and implementation efforts.
Prepare Signing and Pavement Marking design plans and Traffic Signal design plans.
Prepare Traffic Control/Staging (i.e., Maintenance and Protection of Traffic) design plans.
Perform Crash Analysis and Safety Studies
Oversee traffic data collection, trip generation, and traffic analysis activities on various projects
Prepare technical writing documents, visualizations, such as tables and charts, and presentations.
Prepare engineering design plans, specifications, quantity calculations and cost estimates.
Support preparation of statements of qualifications and proposals.
Coordinate with other disciplines working on multi-disciplinary projects.
Remain current in latest traffic engineering techniques and practices.
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.
Who You Are
Required Qualifications
Bachelor's degree in Transportation Engineering, or related degree
7+ years of relevant post education experience in transportation/traffic engineering experience.
Proficient and extensive knowledge of transportation/traffic engineering planning, study and design principles and practices.
Engineer license required.
Highly effective interpersonal and communication skills when interacting with others, expressing ideas effectively and professionally to an engineering and non-engineering audience.
Works independently with minimal oversight and provides guidance and leadership to junior team or project members, with strict adherence to QA/QC.
Well-developed critical thinking and problem-solving skills required to apply technical knowledge to reach conclusions from testing results, data collation, statistical analysis and arriving at the most effective, economical, and logical solution.
Experience with Microsoft Office, including Word, Excel and PowerPoint.
Strong technical writing, analytical and communication skills.
Detail-oriented with an emphasis on quality work products.
The selected candidate must have the ability to work in the United States immediately.
Proven track record of upholding workplace safety and ability to abide by WSP's health, safety and drug/alcohol and harassment policies.
Preferred Qualifications
About WSP
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.
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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.
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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.
