Senior Project Manager

This Opportunity

WSP is currently initiating a search for a Senior Project Manager. This position can work out of our San Bernardino-CA, San Diego-CA, and Las Vegas-NV offices. Be involved in projects with our Southwest Civil Engineering Team and be a part of a growing organization that meets our client's objectives and solves their challenges.

Your Impact

Design

• Direct a segment of a major project and participate in the development and application of concepts and techniques.
• Perform design duties using applicable design software packages.
• Determine client requirements.
• Plan, organize, and supervise engineering activities for a major project, two or more projects of significant size and complexity or several projects of moderate size and complexity.
• Collaborate with management to determine long-range plans and objectives, including recommendations on project staffing, evaluating and mentoring of subordinate staff.
• May function as project manager on appropriate projects.
• Seek to identify and implement improved technical solutions throughout final design.
• Guide design teams to achieve overall project objectives.
• Plan, schedule, and coordinate staffing levels needed for projects.
• Be proactive in driving safety and ensure that health, safety, environment and security requirements are properly considered and included at all stages of the design process.

Marketing

• Coordinate with various Las Vegas clients to obtain project and opportunity leads.
• Take an active role as pursuit manager on opportunities to lead the proposal and interview preparation.

Analytics

• Analyze complex problems requiring the development of new or improved techniques.
• Prepare and/or oversee plans, specifications, estimates and/or bid packages.
• Perform quality assurance/quality control, ensuring that cost, schedule, and quality objectives are met for engineering activities and are commensurate with quality standards, client requirements, and corporate objectives.
• Maintain schedule, budget, and profitability or assigned projects.
• May approve and sign off on work.
• Manage the responses to design requests for information (RFIs).

Collaboration

• Discuss and propose solutions with project teams in order to solve technical issues.
• Attend and participate in project team meetings.
• Represent respective projects at meetings and conferences.
• Support business development initiatives and assist with marketing.
• Coordinate and communicate with other design disciplines and office locations throughout the development process.
• Direct client interaction.
• Mentor and develop multi-disciplined staff.
• Plan, schedule, coordinate, and oversee the work of staff-level engineers.
• 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.
• Other duties as required by business needs.

Who You Are

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, or closely related discipline.
• 15+ years of relevant post education experience in engineering, civil and infrastructure design.
• Engineer license required (multi-state preferred).
• Advanced proficiency with civil engineering principles, practices, process, design/build, standard of care, and the application to permitting and project work-related issues.
• Advanced proficiency with infrastructure design.
• Strong working knowledge of relevant civil construction laws, codes, regulations, compliance practices, and record-keeping requirements, and the business impact upon the organization.
• Advanced proficiency with making technical computations and calculations involving the application of engineering principles, understanding plans and specifications and making factual comparisons to the appropriate regulations.
• Works independently and provides guidance and leadership to mid-level to senior level team or project members, with strict adherence to QA/QC.
• Excellent leadership and interpersonal communication skills with the ability to effectively, persuasively, and tactfully interact with employees at all levels of the organization.
• Tactical lateral thinking and strong analytical skills with attention to detail and prioritization of responsibilities in a pressure work environment.
• Ability to elicit cooperation from a wide variety of sources, including senior management, clients, regulators, and company-wide staff, including those with whom no formal hierarchical relationship exits.
• Advanced proficiency with office automation, discipline-specific design software (i.e., MicroStation, AutoCAD, Civil 3D, ArcGIS, InRoads, Geopak, GeoSlope, ANSYS, STADD, HEC-RAS, HEC-HMS), technology, math principles, predictive models, spreadsheets, and tools.
• Proven track record of upholding workplace safety and ability to abide by WSP's health, safety and drug/alcohol and harassment policies.
• Strong ability to quickly adapt to change and demonstrate flexibility to a variety of schedules and hours to meet business needs.
• Occasional travel may be required depending on project-specific requirements.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's Degree in Engineering.
• 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.
• Experience with local DOT, municipal or county projects.

WSP Benefits:

WSP provides a comprehensive suite of benefits focused on a providing health and financial stability throughout the employee's career. These benefits include coverage related to medical, dental, vision, disability, and life; retirement savings; paid sick leave; paid vacation (or other personal time); paid parental leave; and paid time off for purposes of bereavement, voting, and/or attendance at naturalization proceedings.

Compensation

Expected Salary: $153,300 - $311,900

WSP USA is providing the compensation range that the company in good faith believes it might pay and offer for this position, based on the successful applicant's education, experience, knowledge, skills, abilities in addition to internal equity and specific geographic location. WSP USA reserves the right to ultimately pay more or less than the posted range and offer additional benefits and other compensation, depending on circumstances not related to an applicant's sex or other status protected by local, state, and/or federal law.

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