Assistant Vice President, Civil Project Manager

This Opportunity

WSP USA is actively seeking an Assistant VP; Civil Project Manager with strong experience in transportation infrastructure projects for our Tucson, AZ location.

This role provides situational guidance to PMs and managers that address current and future challenges, and that documentation and recommendations accurately account for and address risk, innovation, and future-ready opportunities.

Provides leadership with ensuring that responsibilities are delivered and adhered to with a level of quality that meets or exceeds acceptable industry standards for design, safety, and functionality.

Your Impact

• Ensure that production of specifications, reports and analyses meet scope, schedule, cost and quality requirements and are commensurate with professional standards, client requirements and corporate objectives.
• Provide coordination with other design disciplines and remote office locations, including : Planning, Environmental, Roadway, Structures, Hydraulics / Drainage and Traffic.
• Collaborate with management to determine long-range plans and objectives, including recommendations on project staffing, evaluating and mentoring of subordinate staff.
• Planning, scheduling, and coordinating staffing levels needed for projects.
• Manage projects and maintain schedule, budget, and profitability of assigned projects, overseeing preparation of plans, specifications, proposals and RFC packages.
• Complete ad hoc projects as needs arise.
• Provide input on alternative delivery proposal preparation.
• Lead projects with all aspects of Transportation Design from conceptual and preliminary engineering to final design.
• Ensure that production of specifications, reports and analyses meet scope, schedule, cost and quality requirements.
• Provide Training to Staff-level Engineers.
• Coordinating with internal and external clients.
• Support effective long-term client / contractor relationships.
• Represent WSP's alternative delivery capabilities in assigned locations, markets, and at industry associations as appropriate.
• 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.
• Perform additional responsibilities as required by business needs.

Who You Are

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering, or closely related discipline.
• 10+ years of relevant post education experience in engineering and civil design.
• Engineer license required (multi-state preferred).
• Highly proficient with civil engineering principles, practices, process, design / build, and the application to permitting and project work-related issues.
• Significant experience working with DOT projects and clients
• Demonstrated creativity, foresight and mature engineering judgment, and successfully managing multiple projects and task assignments, relying upon experience in design quality control programs.
• Strong knowledge of relevant civil construction laws, codes, regulations, compliance practices, and record-keeping requirements.
• Highly proficient with making technical computations and calculations involving the application of engineering principles, understanding plans and specifications, and making factual comparisons to the appropriate regulations.
• Experience with planning and conducting inspections and investigations on various aspects of the construction and design of facilities or structures, applying applicable regulations and policies.
• Highly effective interpersonal and communication skills when interacting with others, expressing intricate ideas effectively and professionally to an engineering and non-engineering audience.
• Strong self-leadership and interpersonal communication skills with the ability to effectively, persuasively, and tactfully interact with clients, regulators, project managers, and employees at all levels of the organization.
• Proficiency with technical writing, office automation, discipline-specific design software (i.e., MicroStation, OpenRoads, InRoads, Geopak, HCS).
• Experienced with providing critical review for documents and preparing technical deliverables and plans with a high degree of complexity.
• Demonstrated experience with State and local governments, contractors, transportation agencies, etc.
• Proven track record of upholding workplace safety and ability to abide by WSP’s health, safety and drug / alcohol and harassment policies.
• Must be flexible to a variety of schedules to meet business needs and able to prioritize responsibilities and quickly adapt to change in a pressure work environment.
• Occasional travel may be required depending on project-specific requirements.

Preferred Qualifications :

• Experience with Arizona Department of Transportations; Utah, Colorado and / or New Mexico DOTs is a plus.
• Experience with local Arizona municipal or county projects.
• 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.

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Additional Requirements

• To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential job duty satisfactorily. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform essential job functions.
30+ days ago