Description
The Cleveland office of WJE was established as a full-service branch office in 2001. The office is staffed with 13 professionals with expertise in engineering, architecture, and materials science. They work on a mix of building envelope and structural evaluations, repairs, and litigation support. Work is generally regional including western PA and all of Ohio.
The Associate Principal has full responsibility as a Project Manager including; development and maintenance of client relationships, management of project teams, and responsibility for all client deliverables. At the Associate Principal level the employee should be a well-rounded professional that successfully leads project teams, contributes to the company, is able to solve complex structural issues, and is an expert in one or more of the structural primary practice areas of WJE. The employee should be active in industry organizations, serve on technical committees, and author papers in their area of expertise while developing industry recognition as an expert. The Associate Principal contributes to WJE through mentoring of junior staff, participation in office and company development initiatives, participation with the in-house Technical Resource Groups, and business development. The Associate Principal is expected to be entrepreneurial in developing their own client base, have well-rounded structural technical expertise, and be able to provide sound solutions to client’s structural problems.
Typical functions:
- Serves as a Project Manager and primary client contact
- Develops scope of services and prepares proposals
- Assembles appropriate project team
- Manages project team and oversees work
- Invoices client and follows up on outstanding accounts
- Builds client relationships
- Attracts new and repeat business
- Researches structure history, technical issues, and code issues
- Plans and mobilizes for site inspection/investigation
- Designs repair details
- Prepares drawings and specifications, and prepares final project manual
- Prepares bid documents, addenda, change orders, draft investigation reports, and other work product.
- Conducts on-site inspection/investigation including survey and documentation of distress, complete field testing, remove samples, take photographs, make sketches etc.
- Conducts on-site observations of work in progress
- Analyzes research and investigation data and develops alternate schemes for solving problems
- Monitors and/or conducts laboratory testing
- Completes structural analysis of wood, steel or concrete structural systems
- Attends field meetings and prepares site observation reports
- Participates in professional organizations, authors papers, attends conferences and performs work on technical committees
Requirements
- Bachelor’s, Master’s, or PhD degree in related field with 15 to 25 years of relevant experience and expertise in one or more of WJE’s primary practices
- Experience and an interest in working on solving problems with existing structures rather than new design
- Experience managing projects
- Active in professional organizations
- Registration in area of expertise
- Strong technical and general written and oral communication skills
- Strong computer skills including CADD and Microsoft Office
- Ability to work in the field
- Ability to travel outside local area, depending on local work load and project locations