Vice President, Nuclear Geotechnical Engineer

3w3 weeks ago

WSP

Atlanta, US · Full-time · $220,000 – $320,000

About this role

WSP is initiating a search for a Vice President, Nuclear Geotechnical Engineer. The role focuses on geotechnical engineering for safety-related subsurface investigations supporting new nuclear power plants. Serve as technical professional and leader for geologic profile, seismicity, surface ruptures, voids, slope stability, aquifers, reactor excavation, and foundation design.

Provide proactive and strategic leadership for the scientific discipline, offering direction and expertise to achieve project deliverables. Actively foster compliance with Federal, State, and Local environmental laws and regulations. Ensure scientific discipline certifications and value proposition are continuously improved.

Schedule scientific discipline meetings with updates and recommendations to integrate expertise into projects. Develop proposal and project scopes, timelines, pricing, and budgetary metrics. Interpret and summarize data from reports for sound scientific and regulatory conclusions.

Provide verbal and written inputs to multi-disciplinary project teams and strategic advice to clients. Mentor staff to support growth and professional development. Drive SME innovation, administration, and solutions for environmental challenges in a complex business climate.

Requirements

Bachelor’s Degree in Geotechnical Engineering or closely related engineering discipline
15+ years of Engineer experience in a corporate environment
3+ years of Geotechnical Engineer experience in support of licensing and design of nuclear power facilities
Demonstrated experience working under Nuclear Quality Assurance Programs meeting 10 CFR 50 Appendix B and ASME NQA-1
Experience with collection of field data using soil borings, rock coring, CPTs, geophysical methods
Experience reviewing and summarizing detailed geologic papers and studies
Experience assigning, evaluating, and interpreting geotechnical laboratory testing and analyses
Licensed Professional Engineer (PE) or ability to obtain PE

Responsibilities

Provide proactive and strategic leadership for the scientific discipline and function
Actively foster compliance with applicable Federal, State, and Local environmental laws
Ensure scientific discipline certifications, accreditations, and value proposition are developed and improved
Schedule scientific discipline meetings and provide updates and recommendations
Develop and inform proposal and project scopes, timelines, pricing, and budgetary metrics
Interpret and summarize data resulting in sound scientific and regulatory conclusions
Provide inputs to multi-disciplinary project teams and strategic advice to clients
Mentor staff to support their growth and professional development