Associate - Structures Transport & Infrastructure, SG

Role overview

Technical leadership and delivery

• Lead structural design and analysis for rail, tunnel, bridge, maritime, temporary works, and construction staging projects.
• Review and approve calculations, drawings, reports, specifications, and technical submissions.
• Perform static, dynamic, seismic, construction-stage, and fatigue analyses.
• Manage packages through concept, feasibility, preliminary, and detailed design.
• Plan and monitor project schedules, budgets, resources, and deliverables; identify and mitigate project risks.
• Support design reviews, value engineering, and constructability assessments.

Coordination and team leadership

• Coordinate with geotechnical, tunnel, civil infrastructure, architecture, MEP, and BIM/digital engineering teams.
• Act as technical lead and primary interface for teams and stakeholders; prepare and present reports and submissions.
• Support business development, proposals, and project pursuits.
• Lead and mentor engineers and BIM professionals, supervise junior staff, and develop team capability.

Education and experience

• Bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering and master's degree in Structural Engineering.
• At least 15 years of structural design experience.
• Proven experience with metro rail projects, including stations, tunnels, viaducts, and depots, and with road bridges and transportation infrastructure.
• Experience managing design from tender through design and construction completion and coordinating multidisciplinary teams.

Technical knowledge

• Structural competencies include reinforced and prestressed concrete, steel and composite structures, foundations, temporary works, bridges, rail structures, seismic/dynamic analysis, construction-stage analysis, fatigue, and rehabilitation.
• Strong working knowledge of Singapore Eurocodes and standards, DMRB, and AASHTO LRFD; Singapore codes of practice and design criteria are preferred.
• Analysis tools include MIDAS Civil, STAAD Pro, SAP2000, ETABS, and SAFE.
• BIM/digital tools include Revit, Civil 3D, Navisworks, AutoCAD, Bentley OpenBridge, OpenRail, and ProjectWise.

Preferred experience and accreditation

• Singapore infrastructure experience, international project experience, and experience managing client interfaces and authority submissions are preferred.
• CEng, MIStructE, MICE, or equivalent accreditation is highly desirable; Singapore PE is preferred.

Leadership and delivery competencies

• The role calls for technical leadership, project and design management, commercial awareness, risk management, stakeholder engagement, team development, problem solving, and strong written and verbal communication.

Quality and success measures

• Maintain QA/QC and Design for Safety requirements and comply with Singapore authority requirements and international standards.
• Participate in technical audits and peer reviews.
• Deliver compliant designs and project milestones within budget and schedule while maintaining stakeholder relationships and developing teams.

Work arrangement

• WSP describes its working model as hybrid.

Background verification

• Employment is subject to successful background verification.