NYC Transportation Delivery Lead

This Opportunity

WSP is currently initiating a search for NYC Transportation Delivery 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 highly-experienced multidisciplinary transportation engineer to drive technical excellence across the portfolio. 

The NYC Transportation Delivery Lead will oversee our portfolio of NYC Transportation projects and will drive technical excellence, quality, timeliness, and enhanced financial performance, in collaboration with our Project Managers and technical discipline group leaders. The NYC Transportation Delivery 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

• Driving Technical Excellence:
  • Work with all transportation disciplines to improve efficiency and delivery of complex multi-discipline projects, ensuring we meet our quality, schedule and budget objectives 
  • Drive more sophisticated uses of BIM to enhance design and construction of complex projects
  • Drive development of Alternative Technical Concepts (ATCs) and Value Engineering ideas
• PM Mentoring:
  • Mentor existing PMs
  • Identify and mentor next generation PM candidates
• 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
  • Enhance project margin, quality, and overall delivery performance
• 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 on billion-dollar projects 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 or ability to receive through reciprocity within 9 months; 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

• Project experience with MTA, PANYNJ, and/or NYSDOT
• Master’s degree in Civil or Structural Engineering.
• Experience serving in a senior engineering management rolefor 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 - $350,000.00

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.

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