Assistant Vice President Civil Engineer - NYC Transportation

This Opportunity

WSP USA is currently initiating a search for a Senior Technical Manager, Assistant Vice President, Civil Engineering to join our growing Northeast Civil Transportation team. The position is available in both our New York City and Valhalla, NY offices .

The successful candidate will bring strong experience delivering NYC public‑infrastructure and transportation projects, including work with the Port Authority of NY & NJ, MTA, NYSTA, NYSDOT, NYCDOT, NYCDDC, NYCDPR, NYCEDC, and related agencies.

Your Impact

• Lead and contribute to the design of NYC‑based transportation projects, including Highway Design, Urban Street Design, Transit Infrastructure & Facilities, Transmission Utilities & Services, .

• Lead a team of civil engineers, providing technical guidance and supervision, ensuring the delivery of project documents in accordance with the project schedule.

• Interface with clients, project management, disciplines leads and other consultants as the Civil Project Lead.

• Prepare and review engineering drawings, specifications, calculations, and permitting packages for local transportation and infrastructure agencies.

• Conduct quality reviews of work produced by junior and mid‑level engineers.

• Manage task assignments, project components, and budgets on small‑ to mid‑size civil engineering projects.

• Support coordination among internal disciplines and external stakeholders.

• Present technical solutions and recommendations to NYC based public clients.

• Provide technical input on proposals, scopes, and pursuit strategies.

• Mentor junior engineers and share NYC‑specific civil best practices.

Who You Are

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Civil Engineering or closely related discipline.

• 10+ years of civil engineering experience with substantial NYC public‑infrastructure design.

• Experience delivering projects for New York public agencies including but not limited to the MTA, NYSDOT, NYCDOT, NYCDDC and Port Authority of NY & NJ.

• Proficiency with Autodesk Civil 3D, Bentley MicroStation, Bentley OpenRoads Designer.

• Ability to manage portions of projects and maintain high‑quality deliverables.

• Professional Engineer license in New York required.• Prior experience mentoring engineering staff.

• Prior experience presenting solutions to NYC agencies.

Preferred Qualifications

• Prior Project Management experience.

WSP Benefits:

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): $ 138,000.00- $ 195,000.00

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.

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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.

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.