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WSP is actively seeking a Lead Civil Roadway Engineer/Project Manager with strong experience in transportation infrastructure projects. This position would support our various clients in New Mexico, working out of our Albuquerque office location.
This role provides situational guidance to project managers that address current and future challenges, document and recommendations accurately account for and address risk, innovation, and future-ready opportunities. Provides leadership with ensuring that responsibilities are delivered and adhered to with a level of quality that meets or exceeds acceptable industry standards for design, safety, and functionality.
Your Impact
- Ensure that production of specifications, reports and analyses meet scope, schedule, cost and quality requirements and are commensurate with professional standards, client requirements and corporate objectives.
- Provide coordination with other design disciplines and remote office locations, including but not limited to: Planning, Environmental, Roadway, Structures, Hydraulics/Drainage and Traffic.
- Collaborate with management to determine long-range plans and objectives, including recommendations on project staffing, evaluating and mentoring of subordinate staff.
- Planning, scheduling, and coordinating staffing levels needed for projects.
- Assist in managing projects and maintain schedule, budget, and profitability of assigned projects, overseeing preparation of plans, specifications, proposals and RFC packages.
- Complete ad hoc projects as needs arise.
- Provide input on proposal preparation.
- Lead projects with all aspects of Transportation Design from conceptual and preliminary engineering to final design.
- Ensure that production of specifications, reports and analyses meet scope, schedule, cost and quality requirements.
- Coordinating with internal and external clients.
- Support effective long-term client/contractor relationships.
- Represent WSP's alternative delivery capabilities in assigned locations, markets, and at industry associations as appropriate.
- Mentor junior staff to support their growth and professional development.
- Remain current in latest civil engineering techniques and practices.
- Collaborates with professionals from a variety of disciplines, other engineers, planners, and infrastructure authorities on Federal, State, Regional, and locally funded improvement and development projects, as well as proposal and business development opportunities.
- 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.
Who You Are
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s Degree in Civil Engineering, or closely related discipline.
- 7-10 years of relevant post education experience in engineering and civil design.
- Engineer license required (multi-state preferred).
- Professional Engineering License or ability to obtain.
- Proficient with civil engineering principles, practices, process, and the application to permitting and project work-related issues.
- Proficient with infrastructure design.
- Strong knowledge of relevant civil construction laws, codes, regulations, compliance practices, and record-keeping requirements.
- Experience working with DOT projects and clients.
- Demonstrated creativity, foresight and mature engineering judgment, and successfully managing multiple projects and task assignments, relying upon experience in design quality control programs.
- Experience preparing, managing and reviewing project deliverables including planning, design and construction documents, project reports, environmental studies, cost estimates, scopes of work, proposals, etc.
- Highly effective interpersonal and communication skills when interacting with others, expressing intricate ideas effectively and professionally to an engineering and non-engineering audience.
- Strong self-leadership and interpersonal communication skills with the ability to effectively, persuasively, and tactfully interact with clients, regulators, project managers, and employees at all levels of the organization.
- Works independently to provide guidance and leadership from mid-level to senior level team or project members, with strict adherence to QA/QC.
- Proficiency with technical writing, office automation, discipline-specific design software (i.e., AutoCAD, Civil 3D, OpenRoads), technology, math principles, predictive models, spreadsheets, and tools.
- Experienced with providing critical reviews for documents and preparing technical deliverables and plans with a high degree of complexity.
- Well-developed critical thinking and problem-solving skills required to apply technical knowledge to reach conclusions from testing results, data collation, computations, statistical analysis and arriving at the most effective, economical, and logical solution.
- Demonstrated effectiveness at coordinating and assertively directing subcontractors 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.
- Must be flexible to a variety of schedules to meet business needs and able to prioritize responsibilities and quickly adapt to change in a pressure work environment. Occasional travel may be required depending on project-specific requirements.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience with New Mexico Department of Transportations; Utah, Colorado and/or Arizona DOTs is a plus.
- Experience with local New Mexico municipal or county projects.
- Strong experience in managing the review and approval of documents and discipline-specific deliverables, certifications, processes, and plans in a multi-project environment is highly desirable.
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.
This Opportunity
WSP is actively seeking a Lead Civil Roadway Engineer/Project Manager with strong experience in transportation infrastructure projects. This position would support our various clients in New Mexico, working out of our Albuquerque office location.
This role provides situational guidance to project managers that address current and future challenges, document and recommendations accurately account for and address risk, innovation, and future-ready opportunities. Provides leadership with ensuring that responsibilities are delivered and adhered to with a level of quality that meets or exceeds acceptable industry standards for design, safety, and functionality.
Your Impact
- Ensure that production of specifications, reports and analyses meet scope, schedule, cost and quality requirements and are commensurate with professional standards, client requirements and corporate objectives.
- Provide coordination with other design disciplines and remote office locations, including but not limited to: Planning, Environmental, Roadway, Structures, Hydraulics/Drainage and Traffic.
- Collaborate with management to determine long-range plans and objectives, including recommendations on project staffing, evaluating and mentoring of subordinate staff.
- Planning, scheduling, and coordinating staffing levels needed for projects.
- Assist in managing projects and maintain schedule, budget, and profitability of assigned projects, overseeing preparation of plans, specifications, proposals and RFC packages.
- Complete ad hoc projects as needs arise.
- Provide input on proposal preparation.
- Lead projects with all aspects of Transportation Design from conceptual and preliminary engineering to final design.
- Ensure that production of specifications, reports and analyses meet scope, schedule, cost and quality requirements.
- Coordinating with internal and external clients.
- Support effective long-term client/contractor relationships.
- Represent WSP's alternative delivery capabilities in assigned locations, markets, and at industry associations as appropriate.
- Mentor junior staff to support their growth and professional development.
- Remain current in latest civil engineering techniques and practices.
- Collaborates with professionals from a variety of disciplines, other engineers, planners, and infrastructure authorities on Federal, State, Regional, and locally funded improvement and development projects, as well as proposal and business development opportunities.
- 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.
Who You Are
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s Degree in Civil Engineering, or closely related discipline.
- 7-10 years of relevant post education experience in engineering and civil design.
- Engineer license required (multi-state preferred).
- Professional Engineering License or ability to obtain.
- Proficient with civil engineering principles, practices, process, and the application to permitting and project work-related issues.
- Proficient with infrastructure design.
- Strong knowledge of relevant civil construction laws, codes, regulations, compliance practices, and record-keeping requirements.
- Experience working with DOT projects and clients.
- Demonstrated creativity, foresight and mature engineering judgment, and successfully managing multiple projects and task assignments, relying upon experience in design quality control programs.
- Experience preparing, managing and reviewing project deliverables including planning, design and construction documents, project reports, environmental studies, cost estimates, scopes of work, proposals, etc.
- Highly effective interpersonal and communication skills when interacting with others, expressing intricate ideas effectively and professionally to an engineering and non-engineering audience.
- Strong self-leadership and interpersonal communication skills with the ability to effectively, persuasively, and tactfully interact with clients, regulators, project managers, and employees at all levels of the organization.
- Works independently to provide guidance and leadership from mid-level to senior level team or project members, with strict adherence to QA/QC.
- Proficiency with technical writing, office automation, discipline-specific design software (i.e., AutoCAD, Civil 3D, OpenRoads), technology, math principles, predictive models, spreadsheets, and tools.
- Experienced with providing critical reviews for documents and preparing technical deliverables and plans with a high degree of complexity.
- Well-developed critical thinking and problem-solving skills required to apply technical knowledge to reach conclusions from testing results, data collation, computations, statistical analysis and arriving at the most effective, economical, and logical solution.
- Demonstrated effectiveness at coordinating and assertively directing subcontractors 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.
- Must be flexible to a variety of schedules to meet business needs and able to prioritize responsibilities and quickly adapt to change in a pressure work environment. Occasional travel may be required depending on project-specific requirements.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience with New Mexico Department of Transportations; Utah, Colorado and/or Arizona DOTs is a plus.
- Experience with local New Mexico municipal or county projects.
- Strong experience in managing the review and approval of documents and discipline-specific deliverables, certifications, processes, and plans in a multi-project environment is highly desirable.
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 as a Roadway Engineer
Verify your degree maps to the role
TN visa classification requires your degree field to match the job duties. A civil or transportation engineering degree supports roadway work clearly. A general engineering degree may require a stronger employer letter explaining the connection.
Target DOT contractors and state agencies
Federal Highway Administration-funded projects run through state DOTs and their prime contractors. These employers routinely sponsor TN workers because roadway engineering roles map cleanly to the USMCA Engineer category, reducing internal legal review time.
Request a duties-specific offer letter
Your offer letter must describe roadway engineering duties in technical terms, not just your job title. Specify tasks like horizontal alignment design, drainage analysis, or traffic impact assessments to make the TN category connection explicit for CBP officers.
Use Migrate Mate to find sponsoring employers
Search Migrate Mate to identify companies actively hiring Roadway Engineers at employers with recent visa filings. Filtering by employers experienced with work visa sponsorship saves time you'd otherwise spend cold-applying to firms unfamiliar with the process.
Prepare your Canadian port-of-entry package carefully
Canadian citizens apply at the border directly. Bring your offer letter, degree transcripts, and any professional engineering license documentation. CBP officers adjudicate on the spot, so a complete, well-organized package prevents same-day delays or denials.
Understand the TN renewal timeline for project-based work
TN status is granted in up to three-year increments with unlimited renewals. If your roadway project ends before your TN expires, you'll need a new offer letter from your next employer before USCIS will approve an extension or transfer.
Roadway Engineer TN Visa: Frequently Asked Questions
Does a Roadway Engineer role qualify for TN visa status?
Yes. Roadway Engineer roles fall under the USMCA Engineer category, which covers positions requiring a bachelor's degree in civil, transportation, or a closely related engineering field. The job duties must involve engineering-level work such as roadway design, geometric analysis, or infrastructure planning, not general construction supervision or technician-level tasks.
How does TN visa sponsorship compare to H-1B for Roadway Engineers?
TN has no lottery, no annual cap for Canadians, and no lengthy USCIS petition wait for Canadian applicants who qualify at the port of entry. H-1B visa requires employer sponsorship through a lottery with roughly a one-in-four selection rate. For a Canadian or Mexican Roadway Engineer with a qualifying degree, TN is a faster and more predictable path to U.S. employment.
Can I find Roadway Engineer jobs that already support TN visa sponsorship?
Yes. Migrate Mate lets you search specifically for Roadway Engineer roles where employers are open to TN visa sponsorship, so you're not spending time on applications that will stall at the visa question. Filtering by TN-familiar employers is especially useful in the transportation and infrastructure sector, where sponsorship experience varies significantly by firm.
What documentation does my employer need to provide for TN sponsorship?
Your employer must provide a detailed offer letter on company letterhead that states your job title, describes your engineering duties with specificity, confirms the position requires a bachelor's degree, and lists your start date and employment terms. For Mexican nationals, the employer will also need to support a consular visa application rather than a port-of-entry process.
Can I switch Roadway Engineer employers while on TN status?
Yes, but you must obtain new TN authorization before starting work with the new employer. Canadian citizens can apply at the border with a new offer letter. Mexican citizens and those already inside the U.S. typically file a change of employer through USCIS. Working for a new employer before approval is a status violation, so timing the transition carefully with your new employer is important.