Tanja Waaser

Tanja has over 13 years post chartered experience and over 25 year's of experience in the engineering and construction industry.

She was appointed Visiting Professor at Abertay University in 2020 and has been Project Manager for Special Projects in Transport Scotland since 2021, project managing landslide remediation works on A83 Rest and Be Thankful.

As part of her responsibilities, she is leading the geotechnical design for Minor Improvement and Structure schemes across all four the trunk road units and heads the Vulnerable Location Operations Sub-Group for geotechnical assets and geohazards leading the development of adaptation and geotechnical asset risk ranking.

She is a member of CIRIA geotechnical working group, manages SRRB research projects and is a member of the BSI committee B/526/3 “Ground investigation and ground testing”.

Her move to Transport Scotland followed a long career in consultancy. As Associate in WSP Civil, Bridges & Ground Tanja was heading the Scotland & NI Geotechnical team, managing staff in Scotland & NI and part of the Bidding/Growth and Client Care Group . She was responsible for the delivery of design packages for external and internal Clients maintaining technical excellence, bidding and business development.