NYC Transportation Project Operations Lead

Job Description

This Opportunity

WSP is currently initiating a search for NYC Transportation Project Operations Lead to join our group in New York City, NY.

The New York City office has a large and dynamic project portfolio, and a range of demanding transportation clients. The volume and complexity of work in our NYC office requires full-time effort from a skilled and strategic thinker to driving project performance across the portfolio.

The NYC Project Operations Lead will oversee our portfolio of NYC Transportation projects and will drive quality, timeliness, and enhanced financial performance, in collaboration with our Project Managers, Financial, Operations, and Business Line Leaders.

The Project Operations Lead will help the NYC Local Business Lead develop plans to meet strategic business goals, identify and manage project risks, and coordinate a bench of Project Delivery Managers (PDMs) who will assist with daily support of our Project Managers.

Your Impact

• Project Operations:
• Ensure that Project Managers (PMs) and PDMs are following our Project Delivery Policies and the procedures in our Project Execution Manual (PEM)
• Achieve consistency in rigor of project kickoff meetings and ongoing risk management
• Participation in project reviews
• Developing/maintaining Risk and Opportunity logs; driving mitigations with PMs and PDMs
• Developing monthly portfolio performance reports
• Enhance project margin, quality, and overall delivery performance
• PM Mentoring:
• Mentor existing PMs
• Identify and mentor next generation PM candidates
• Driving Technical Innovation:
• Drive progressive Alternative Technical Concept (ATC) development
• Driving Digital Innovation:
• Institutionalize the use of BIM throughout engineering staff
• Drive more sophisticated uses of BIM to enhance design and construction of complex projects
• Institutionalize the use of computer coding/programming to automate design and quality processes
• 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.
  

Who You Are

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering
• 15+ years of experience in infrastructure engineering
• Proven project management and risk management expertise across a range of multidisciplinary project types and markets
• Proven success in developing and implementing structure and culture for
• Staff development
• Standardization
• Technical innovation
• Project delivery excellence
• Quality management
• NY Professional Engineer Registration, willing to obtain PE registration in other states
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Ability to foster a welcoming and nurturing environment for staff at all levels
• Proven track record of upholding workplace safety and ability to abide by WSP's health, safety and drug/alcohol and harassment policies.
• Able to work occasional overtime as required per project.
• Occasional travel may be required depending on client or project-specific requirements.
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s degree in civil or structural engineering.
• Experience serving as Chief Engineer for a public agency or AEC firm.
  
  

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 (all locations): $250,000.00 - $315,000.00

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.

About WSP

ABOUT US

WSP USA is the U.S. operating company of WSP, one of the world's leading engineering and professional services firms. Dedicated to serving local communities, we are engineers, planners, technical experts, strategic advisors and construction management professionals. WSP USA designs lasting solutions in the buildings, transportation, energy, water and environment markets. With more than 15,000 employees in over 300 offices across the U.S., we partner with our clients to help communities prosper.

www.wsp.com

WSP provides a flexible and agile workplace model while meeting client needs. Employees are also afforded a comprehensive suite of benefits including medical, dental, vision, disability, life, and retirement savings focused on providing health and financial stability throughout the employee’s career.

At WSP, we want to give our employees the challenges they seek to grow their careers and knowledge base. Your daily contributions to your team will be essential in meeting client objectives, goals and challenges. Are you ready to get started?

WSP USA (and all of its U.S. companies) is an Equal Opportunity Employer Race/Age/Color/Religion/Sex/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity/National Origin/Disability or Protected Veteran Status.

The selected candidate must be authorized to work in the United States.

Notice To Third Party Agencies

WSP does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruiters, employment agencies, or other staffing services. Unsolicited resumes include any resume or hiring document sent to WSP in the absence of a signed Service Agreement where WSP has expressly requested recruitment/staffing services specific to the position at hand. Any unsolicited resumes, including those submitted to hiring managers or other business leaders, will become the property of WSP and WSP will have the right to hire that candidate without reservation – no fee or other compensation will be owed or paid to the recruiter, employment agency, or other staffing service.