Senior Civil Engineer – Infrastructure & Project Leadership

WSP; Virginia Beach (VA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

WSP in Virginia Beach is seeking a senior civil engineer to provide high‑level guidance on due diligence, remediation, and infrastructure design across multiple sites. You will lead cross‑functional teams, review designs for safety, quality, and compliance, and develop cost estimates and phasing plans for complex projects.

You’ll collaborate with owners, sub-consultants, and clients, apply advanced modeling and surveying data, and ensure adherence to regulations while advancing rehabilitation

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering or closely related discipline.
• 7 to 10 years of post-education experience in engineering and civil design.
• Engineer license required.
• Proficient with civil engineering principles, practices, process, design/build, and the application to permitting and project work-related issues.
• Extensive knowledge of infrastructure design.
• Experience with infrastructure planning, design, and construction management; including active involvement in a variety of rehabilitation, new design, and construction projects.

Responsibilities

• Provide guidance with collecting, compiling, and analyzing data from the physical work site, surveys, blueprints, GIS data, subsurface utility information, maps, hydrologic analysis, geotechnical data, and other matrices for project development, design, and construction.
• 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 and construction of infrastructure projects, including rehabilitation and reconstruction, grading, drainage, pavement design, specifications, building materials, phasing, and construction safety plans.
• Coordinate, review and approve infrastructure design plans, ensuring data integrity and work is compliant with all applicable codes, ordinances, and regulations.

Skills

Civil engineering

Project management

Technical writing

Interpersonal communication

QA/QC

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering

Professional Engineer license

Master’s Degree in Engineering

Tools

MicroStation

AutoCAD

Civil 3D

ArcGIS

InRoads

Geopak

GeoSlope

ANSYS

STADD

HEC-RAS

HEC-HMS

Job description

WSP in Virginia Beach is seeking a senior civil engineer to provide high‑level guidance on due diligence, remediation, and infrastructure design across multiple sites. You will lead cross‑functional teams, review designs for safety, quality, and compliance, and develop cost estimates and phasing plans for complex projects.

You’ll collaborate with owners, sub-consultants, and clients, apply advanced modeling and surveying data, and ensure adherence to regulations while advancing rehabilitation