Senior Technical Director, Stations Lead

WSP • San Jose, CA

5d • $250,500 - $323,000 • Onsite

About The Position

The Senior Technical Director, Stations Lead will report directly to the program engineering manager through the facilities manager and support the program’s underground station development. This role acts as an Owner's Engineer, ensuring technical deliverables meet project requirements. The position is based in a client office in San Jose. The stations lead will focus on the management of the General Engineering Consultant (GEC) design team and support for various areas including leading coordination activities for the Station Design team and SOE design efforts, preparing for and attending Community Working Group (CWG) meetings and stakeholder coordination meetings, providing review of design documents, coordinating with BART on station design refinements, and coordinating the schedule of design delivery as well as construction schedule analysis with the project controls team. The role also involves understanding and facilitating the delivery of Contract Packages, attending and facilitating design coordination meetings, supporting the facilities engineering manager and engineering manager for program-related tasks, providing technical reviews of all station design documents, acting as a liaison with other CPs on technical issues and inter-package interface definition, liaising with VTA Design Manager and External Affairs, serving as the point of contact to the Third Party Coordinator on issues related to CP, leading over-the-shoulder reviews with BART and other third parties, supporting the PM in monitoring overall design activities, and being responsible for tracking CP action items and communications beyond the CP team. Construction RFP Responsibilities are also part of this role.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Architecture or Civil Engineering, or a related major, or equivalent experience in a technical or engineering firm.
• 15+ years of relevant post education experience in related roles within our industry.
• Related experience must include experience in large rail transit design and construction projects.
• Demonstrated exceptional ability with establishing, implementing, and managing multiple larger scale/complex projects, programs, documents, systems, and practices.
• Excellent self-leadership and interpersonal communication skills with the ability to manage staff, and effectively, persuasively, and tactfully interact with employees at all levels of the organization.
• Strategic lateral thinking and strong analytical skills with attention to detail and prioritization of responsibilities in a pressure work environment.
• Ability to elicit cooperation from a wide variety of sources, including senior management, subcontractors, consultants, suppliers, clients, and company-wide staff, including those with whom no formal hierarchical relationship exits.
• Advanced knowledge and proficiency with technical writing, office automation, relevant software, MS Office suite products (e.g., Word, Excel, Visio, Project, SharePoint), technology, spreadsheets, and PM tools.
• Proven track record of upholding workplace safety and ability to abide by WSP’s health, safety and drug/alcohol and harassment policies.
• Strong ability to quickly adapt to change and demonstrate flexibility to a variety of schedules and hours to meet business needs.
• The selected candidate must be authorized to work in the United States.

Nice To Haves

• Master’s Degree is preferred.
• 5+ years in a similar role is preferred.
• Experience in transit, tunnels, and BART (or similar) is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Engage GEC team as needed (does not direct GEC engineering and architecture team)
• Lead coordination activities for Station Design team and SOE design efforts
• Prepare for and attend Community Working Group (CWG) meetings and stakeholder coordination meetings
• Provide review of design documents and coordinate with BART as needed on station design refinements
• Coordinate schedule of design delivery as well as construction schedule analysis with project controls team
• Understand and facilitate delivery of Contract Packages by coordinating with Contract Leads, Specification Lead and Procurement Lead
• Attend and facilitate design coordination meetings as needed
• Support facilities engineering manager and engineering manager for program related tasks
• Provide technical reviews of all station design documents including structures, architectural, MEP, civil/site, utilities, roadways, etc. to assure DCM compliance and maintain/reduce construction costs by facilitating cost reduction assessments
• Liaison with other CPs on technical issues and inter-package interface definition
• Liaison with VTA Design Manager
• Liaison with External Affairs and other external VTA groups
• Serve as Point of contact to third Party Coordinator on issues related to CP
• Lead over-the-shoulder reviews with BART and other third parties
• Support PM in monitoring overall design activities
• Responsible for tracking CP action items
• Responsible for communications beyond the CP team
• Construction RFP Responsibilities

Benefits

• Coverage related to medical, dental, vision, disability, and life
• Retirement savings
• Paid sick leave
• Paid vacation (or other personal time)
• Paid parental leave
• Paid time off for purposes of bereavement, voting, and/or attendance at naturalization proceedings

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior