Assistant Vice President, Transportation Planning

Description

• Lead and prepare drafts of transportation technical reports and memos, presentations, and other materials to summarize research, findings, and recommendations.
• Oversee and monitor cross-functional teams to execute project work, including managing project scope, schedule, and budgets and cost-to-complete.
• Coordinate with project managers, task managers, project team technical leads, subconsultants, and other disciplines such as planning, engineering, sustainability and traffic team members.
• Inspires, motivates and promotes the best of WSP to our clients and communities to ensure strong employee engagement and morale.
• In collaboration with business line leaders, develop a client base for providing transportation planning services including identifying additional business development opportunities and engaging in proposal writing and submission.
• Coordinate with leads and specialists in other business lines and regions (particularly Transportation & Infrastructure) to engage in projects and pursuits and leverage a broader base of staff support.
• Support local client coordination, pursuit management, and cross-selling efforts in coordination with local and region leadership.
• Attend civic and industry events, conferences, and forums such as ITE, WTS, APA, APWA, and ACEC.
• Provide innovation and collaboration with a focus on maintaining and improving quality.
• Perform professional transportation planning work and conduct investigations, and studies, to gain further information on a particular problem or issue, verify site characteristics, and/or to plan for future needs affecting transportation analysis and demand management, corridor planning, complete streets, multimodal mobility, and safety planning, PEL Studies and NEPA analyses.
• Together with business line leaders, strategically grow the planning practice in Nevada and bring an expanded view and integrated response by leveraging WSP’s technical and subject matter experts across offices and regions.
• Serve as project manager, deputy project manager, and task lead and collaborate with professionals from a variety of disciplines to provide future ready transportation planning solutions for clients.
• Lead staff to prepare data and visualizations such as tables, charts, reports, models, infographics, cross-sections, and 3D illustrations for the interpretation or presentation of complex and large-scale data, findings, or analyses.
• Supports programs such as Safety, Sustainability and Ethics & Compliance
• Collaborate with professionals from a variety of disciplines to provide future ready solutions for clients.
• Mentor staff to support their growth and professional development.
• 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.
• Coordinate with clients, partner agencies, subcontractors, and technical staff in a confident and professional manner.

Requirements

• Minimum of 10 years of experience working in the transportation planning field, or equivalent experience in the A/E/C industry with a focus on infrastructure projects.
• Strongly established relevant client relationships and industry contacts in the local area.
• Essential professional licensure/certification.
• Proven experience overseeing and managing multidisciplinary transportation projects of small, medium, and large-scale.
• Demonstrated experience applying and interpreting various traffic modeling tools (e.g., microsimulation, macroscopic, and mesoscopic models) to support transportation planning and operational analysis.
• Bachelor’s degree in Transportation Planning, Urban Planning, Geography, or a related field.
• Remain current in transportation planning practices, regulations, and techniques.
• Well-developed critical thinking and problem-solving skills required to reach conclusions from testing results, data collation, and ability to identify effective solutions to accomplish project objectives.
• Ability to innovate and re-think the conventional approach to client and employee engagement.
• Experience with professional environmental services as a consultant or client, developing scopes of work, directing work, issuing or responding to RFP or RFQs.
• Demonstrated leadership experience, personal accountability, persistence, and growth.
• Proven track record of upholding workplace safety and ability to abide by WSP’s health, safety and drug/alcohol and harassment policies.
• Master’s Degree is preferred.

Benefits

Training + Development

Interview process

Visa Sponsorship

Security clearance