Who We Are

At WSP, we are driven by inspiring future-ready pioneers to innovate. We’re looking to grow our teams with people who are ready to collaborate in building communities and expanding our skylines. To do this, we hire candidates of all experiences, skillsets, backgrounds and walks of life. We actively foster a work environment and culture where inclusion and diversity is part of our fundamental structure. This is delivered behaviorally, through our policies, trainings, local partnerships with professional diverse organizations, internal networks and most importantly with the support and sponsorship of our leaders who help drive our commitment to an inclusive, diverse, welcoming and equitable work environment. Anything is within our reach and yours as a WSP employee. Come join us and help shape the future!

This Opportunity

Be involved in projects with our Transportation Team and be a part of a growing organization that meets our client's objectives and solves their challenges.

WSP is currently initiating a search for a full-time Vice President, Project Manager for our St. Louis, MO office. This position is best suited for an engineer who is seeking an opportunity to work within a team-focused local office, for a large world-wide engineering firm. Career development, mentoring and employee satisfaction is key within our local civil group and the firm.

Your Impact

• Lead multi-disciplined teams through the successful completion of medium to large projects while managing more than one project at a time.
• Prepare project work plans, proposals, and schedules, and obtain management/client approval.
• Maintain regular communication with clients regarding project status and project quality, and proactively resolve issues.
• Manage relationships with project stakeholders, including internal and external clients and vendors, regulatory authorities and technical agencies, and the public. This involves keeping the stakeholders informed of progress and issues in order to manage expectations on all project requirements and deliverables and meet the project schedule.
• Proactively track, analyze and report on actual performance against the plan, and prepare cost and schedule reporting, both for clients and as part of internal reporting processes. Address change management matters promptly and professionally with clients and internal departments.
• Internal reporting includes: Monthly project financial forecast, project budget maintenance, key performance indicator monitoring.
• Analyze project management and project delivery risks, establish contingency plans and identify trigger events and responsibility for initiating mitigating action.
• Lead and manage business development initiatives including Requests for Qualifications and Requests for Proposals; with input from others, compile a comprehensive and realistic scope of work, and prepare a complete and accurate fee estimate, in a format suitable for obtaining the required management approvals.
• As Team Leader, provide mentoring, assistance, encouragement and motivation to team members.
• Provide general administrative and technical leadership for the project; Maintain all project records and monitor correspondence.
• Schedule and facilitate all project meetings required to successfully coordinate work activity.
• Administer subconsultant agreements as assigned.
• Implement and manage the Quality Control Plan for each project.
• Proactively track and report workload management throughout the project.
• Management of client and subconsultant invoicing.

Talent is the essence of meeting our client’s objectives, goals, and challenges. If this sounds like a fit for you, we’d love to have that first discussion of you joining our team.

Who You Are

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in engineering related field and at least 10-15 years of professional experience post-graduation (or equivalent working knowledge/experience).
• 3-5 years in Project and/or Program Management and experience on large, engineering and/or construction projects.
• Experience leading multi-disciplinary teams of project professionals; concurrently managing issues, scope and quality while bringing projects to successful completion within the cost and time requirements.
• Familiarity with all commonly used project delivery models.
• Experience in project planning, risk management, cost management and schedule management, and methods of analyzing and reporting project performance on financial and other KPIs.
• Exceptional written and oral communication skills, including experience making presentations to senior management, elected officials and the public.
• Exceptional interpersonal skills; the ability to work well with people from many different disciplines with varying degrees of technical experience; competence in clear, concise and tactful communication with senior management, clients, peers and staff.
• Strategic, conceptual analytical thinking and decision making skills.
• Adaptability and flexibility including the ability to manage deadline pressure, ambiguity and change.
• Negotiating skills within a context of political sensitivity and conflicting interests.
• Proficiency with computer office productivity (i.e. MS Office) and project management software tools.
• Detail oriented with ability to manage multiple priorities and meet deadlines.

Preferred Qualifications

• Project Management Professional certification
• Professional Engineer (PE) License for the state of Missouri
• Experience working with MoDOT

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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.

Additional Details

• Travel Required: 10%
• Job Status: Regular
• Employee Type: Full
• Primary Location: ST LOUIS - N BROADWAY
• All locations: US-MO-St Louis

About WSP

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.