Senior Consultant, Infrastructure Resilience

WSP•Miami, FL

4d•Onsite

About The Position

WSP is hiring a Senior Consultant to support its growing Resilience Services Practice. This full-time technical leadership position is based in one of WSP’s Miami, Sunrise, Tampa, Jacksonville, or Tallahassee offices, and the employee must be physically located in Florida. The role leads climate adaptation projects and helps guide decisions about resilience investments, connecting risk analysis with engineering and design and communicating risk-reduction approaches to clients making infrastructure capital investments. The Senior Consultant leads projects, tasks, and project teams involving project-level risk assessment, adaptation alternatives, preliminary engineering design, and communication. Initial projects will focus primarily on roadway infrastructure. The role works with multidisciplinary risk analysis and engineering teams and contributes to data-driven analysis and decision-making across the national climate resilience team. It also supports project management, client interaction, team management, project financials, and business development in Florida. Business development activities may include conference presentations, professional-group engagement, and other activities; willingness to develop public-speaking skills is essential. The position involves preparing data, visualizations, reports, illustrations, and presentations; maintaining quality-control standards; assisting with the development and scoping of medium-sized projects; collaborating with cross-functional teams; and complying with regulatory requirements for data integrity, documentation, procedures, training, monitoring, and record retention. The role also interacts professionally with regulatory agencies, subcontractors, and clients; exercises responsible and ethical judgment; and follows WSP’s Code of Conduct and related policies. The ideal candidate is a self-starter who can work independently and collaboratively in a virtual setting, provide guidance to junior colleagues, and travel within Florida as needed.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree or higher in Stormwater, Civil, or Environmental Engineering, or a related engineering field.
5–8 years of work experience.
Experience with climate-change vulnerability, risk assessments, and risk-reduction strategies or alternatives.
Proven capabilities in technical project delivery and working with interdisciplinary technical teams.
Experience working independently and collaboratively on remote efforts.
Experience communicating technical analysis and results to non-technical audiences.
Attention to detail and commitment and skills to identify errors and conduct thorough quality reviews and checks, with a focus on accuracy, correctness, and excellence.
Ability to innovate on challenging topics to produce client-tailored products.
Strong self-leadership, attention to detail, multitasking, and prioritization in a dynamic work environment.
Ability to work independently and provide guidance and leadership to junior team or project members while adhering strictly to QA/QC.
Proficiency in technical writing, office automation and communication software, technology, mathematical principles, predictive models, and tools.
Critical-thinking and problem-solving skills to apply technical knowledge, interpret testing results and data, conduct statistical analysis, and reach effective, economical, and logical solutions.
Ability to assertively direct field personnel, such as subcontractors, to complete tasks safely and efficiently.
Proven workplace-safety record and ability to comply with WSP’s health, safety, drug/alcohol, and harassment policies.
Ability to work schedules that meet project-specific requirements and may extend beyond the typical workweek.
Willingness to travel occasionally as project-specific requirements dictate.
Must be physically located in Florida.
Openness to developing comfort with public speaking, if not already comfortable.

Nice To Haves

Professional Engineer (P.E.) or Engineering Intern (E.I.) credential.
Experience working with hazard data and analyzing climate-related impacts to assets, infrastructure, and communities.
Understanding of US Army Corps Depth-Damage functions for estimating losses.
Familiarity with Florida DOT alternatives analysis and preliminary design processes.
Familiarity with modeling outputs such as StormWise and risk-assessment software such as FEMA’s HAZUS.

Responsibilities

Lead projects, tasks, and project teams involving project-level risk assessment, adaptation alternatives, preliminary engineering design, and communication.
Connect risk analysis with engineering and design teams and communicate risk-reduction approaches to clients investing in infrastructure.
Work with multidisciplinary risk analysis and engineering teams to advance data-driven resilience analysis and decision-making.
Prepare data and visualizations, including tables, charts, accurate reports, and illustrations, to present data, findings, and analyses.
Maintain quality-control standards and procedures for accurate measurements, statistical analysis, and reporting.
Assist with development and scoping of medium-sized projects.
Prepare technical reports and presentations explaining research, findings, and recommendations.
Work with cross-functional teams to execute project work.
Comply with regulatory requirements concerning data integrity, documentation, procedures, training, monitoring systems, and record compliance and retention.
Interact confidently and professionally with regulatory agencies, subcontractors, and clients.
Support business development in Florida, potentially through conference presentations and engagement with professional groups.
Exercise responsible and ethical decision-making regarding company funds, resources, and conduct, and follow WSP’s Code of Conduct and related policies and procedures.
Provide guidance and leadership to junior team or project members, with strict adherence to QA/QC.
Direct field personnel such as subcontractors to complete tasks safely and efficiently.
Perform additional responsibilities as required by business needs.
Travel within Florida or as required by project-specific needs.