TN Visa Highway Maintenance Worker Jobs
Highway Maintenance Worker roles qualify for TN visa sponsorship under USMCA when the position meets specialty occupation standards. Canadian citizens can apply at the port of entry with an employer offer letter and supporting credentials. Mexican citizens require consular processing. Your degree or technical certification in civil engineering technology or a related field must align with the role.
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Job Summary
The role provides highway task leadership within the WSP Pittsburgh office and surrounding areas to ensure transportation projects are delivered with a level of quality that meets or exceeds client expectations. Responsible for highway engineering and associated task administration, ensuring corporate compliance with all Local, State, and Federal design and construction standards, and providing pragmatic direction to address current and future challenges in a rapidly changing and complex business climate. This is a task leader position including the development of junior staff. In addition, this is a hybrid role, with a minimum in-office attendance of 3 days per week.
Job Duties and Responsibilities
- Provide guidance with collecting, compiling, and analyzing data from the physical work site, surveys, GIS data, subsurface utility information, and hydrologic analysis, for project development, design, and construction.
- Apply highway engineering design principles to identify improvements for various transportation project phases including alternatives analysis, preliminary engineering, final design, construction, and operation.
- Develop highway construction plans, specifications, and cost estimates, and coordinate the development of project specific Also Plans.
- Involved from project inception to completion in the management of design of infrastructure projects, including rehabilitation and reconstruction, grading, drainage, pavement design, specifications, phasing, and cost estimating.
- Oversee and monitor cross-functional teams of engineers, planners, and scientists to execute project work on multiple concurrent projects, including budgets, tracking hours and expenses, task completion, technical calculations, permit applications.
- Coordinate, review and approve highway design plans, ensuring engineering is compliant with all client guidance and policies.
- Prepare data and visualizations such as tables, charts, reports, sketches, calculations, cross-sections, and other illustrations for the interpretation or presentation of more complex data, findings, or analyses.
- Prepare comprehensive technical reports and presentations that explain research, concepts, and recommendations to address engineering, design, and/or construction issues or opportunities.
- Interact with regulatory agencies, subconsultants, and clients in a confident and professional manner.
- Collaborate with professionals, other engineers, planners, and infrastructure authorities on Federal, State, and locally funded transportation projects, as well as proposal and business development opportunities.
- Remain current in latest highway 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.
Qualifications
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s Degree in Civil Engineering.
- 7+ years of relevant post education experience in transportation and highway design on projects for clients including the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation, Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission, County of Allegheny DPW, and City of Pittsburgh DOMI.
- Pennsylvania Professional Engineer’s license required.
- Proficient with highway engineering principles, practices, process, and the application to required permitting and project work-related issues.
- Experience with transportation planning, highway design, and construction consultation; including active involvement in a variety of rehabilitation, reconstruction, and new design projects.
- Well-defined specific knowledge of relevant client-specific highway engineering guidance and best practices.
- Well-developed ability to make design decisions involving the application of highway engineering principles, and understanding plans, specifications, and cost estimating.
- Highly effective interpersonal and communication skills when interacting with others, expressing ideas effectively and professionally to an engineering and non-engineering audience.
- Demonstrated high-level of self-leadership with attention to detail, multi-tasking, and prioritization of responsibilities in a dynamic work environment.
- Works independently with minimal oversight and provides guidance and leadership to junior team or project members, with strict adherence to QA/QC.
- Highly proficient with technical writing, discipline-specific design software, i.e., OpenRoads Designer (ORD) and legacy InRoads and MicroStation.
- Well-developed critical thinking and problem-solving skills required to apply technical knowledge to reach conclusions from data collation, analyzing alternatives, computations, to arrive at the most effective solution for the client.
- Demonstrated effectiveness at coordinating and assertively directing subconsultants and others to consistently complete tasks safely and efficiently.
- Proven track record of upholding workplace safety and ability to abide by WSP’s health, safety and drug/alcohol and harassment policies.
- Ability to work schedules that are conducive to project-specific requirements that may extend beyond the typical workweek.
- Occasional travel may be required depending on project-specific requirements.
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.
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.
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding TN Visa Sponsorship in Highway Maintenance Worker
Match your credentials to specialty occupation standards
TN visa eligibility for Highway Maintenance Worker roles hinges on demonstrating that the position requires technical or engineering knowledge. A diploma in civil engineering technology, construction management, or highway engineering strengthens your case significantly over general labor experience.
Target public works contractors with federal contracts
State DOT contractors and federally funded infrastructure firms file LCAs regularly and understand prevailing wage obligations. Searching for employers with active DOL labor condition filings puts you in front of sponsors already familiar with TN documentation requirements.
Verify your wage offer against OFLC Wage Search
Your employer must certify your wage meets the prevailing wage for your SOC code and work location. Pull the current figure from OFLC Wage Search before the offer stage so you can flag shortfalls and avoid a denial at the port of entry.
Use Migrate Mate to filter sponsoring employers
Searching broadly for highway maintenance roles wastes time on employers who've never sponsored a TN visa. Migrate Mate surfaces companies with active TN sponsorship history, so you can focus your applications on employers already set up to file.
Prepare a detailed employer support letter
CBP officers adjudicate TN petitions at the border without advance USCIS review. Your employer's letter must specify the role's technical scope, your qualifying credential, the employment duration, and that the position requires at least a bachelor's-level equivalent in a relevant field.
Understand the Mexican TN consular process timeline
Mexican citizens can't self-petition at a port of entry the way Canadians can. You'll schedule a consular interview and wait for visa issuance before starting work, so align your start date with realistic consulate appointment availability in your region.
Highway Maintenance Worker TN Visa: Frequently Asked Questions
Does a Highway Maintenance Worker role actually qualify for TN visa status?
It depends on how the role is defined. TN status requires the position to fall within a qualifying USMCA occupation category, most commonly engineers or engineering technicians. A generic laborer or equipment operator title won't qualify, but a role framed around civil engineering technology, highway systems inspection, or infrastructure maintenance with a matching technical credential can meet the standard.
How does the TN visa compare to H-1B for Highway Maintenance Worker positions?
The TN visa has no lottery, no annual cap for Canadians, and can be approved at the port of entry the same day you apply. H-1B visa requires lottery selection, months of advance filing, and employer attorney fees. For Canadians in highway maintenance roles with a matching technical degree, TN is faster, cheaper for employers, and more predictable than the H-1B process.
What documents does my employer need to prepare for my TN application?
Your employer must provide a signed support letter on company letterhead describing the role's technical scope, your specific duties, the qualifying USMCA occupation category, your credential, the employment start and end date, and confirmation that the offered wage meets prevailing wage levels. CBP reviews this letter at the port of entry, so vague or incomplete letters are a common cause of delays or denials.
Where can I find Highway Maintenance Worker jobs that offer TN visa sponsorship?
Most general job boards don't filter by visa sponsorship type, which means you spend time applying to employers who can't or won't sponsor a TN. Migrate Mate is built specifically for TN visa job seekers and surfaces employers with active sponsorship history, so you can focus on roles where sponsorship is already part of the hiring process.
Can I renew my TN status if I stay in the same Highway Maintenance Worker role?
Yes. TN status is granted in increments of up to three years and can be renewed indefinitely as long as you maintain a qualifying job offer and continue to meet the occupation requirements. Canadians can renew at the port of entry or through USCIS. Mexican citizens renew through consular processing. There's no limit on the number of renewals.