Assistant Vice President, Transit Planning

Description

• Develop a client base for providing high level transportation planning services including identifying additional business development opportunities and engaging in proposal writing and submission.
• 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.
• Oversee and monitor cross-functional teams in executing project work, approval or permitting strategy, impact assessments, and regulatory strategy, including project budgets, tracking hours and expenses, and task completion.
• Coordinate with clients, resource agencies, and planning and technical staff, providing a high level of strategic advice, consultancy, and subject matter expertise.
• Explain complex technical information to diverse audiences.
• Organize and lead public meetings, respond to public inquiries for the client, and support long-range planning on large or complex projects.
• Provide high level oversite for desk-based research and site work, including measurements, data interpretation, demographics, patterns and trends, and computer modeling.
• Mentor staff to support their growth and professional development.
• Prepare data and visualizations such as tables, charts, reports, models, infographics, cross-sections, and 3D illustrations for the interpretation or presentation of more complex and larger scale data, findings, or analyses.
• Analyze and interpret field data to help develop action plans that reduce community, economic, and environmental impacts.
• Collaborate with professionals from a variety of disciplines to provide future ready solutions for clients.

Requirements

• Project Management Professional (PMP)
• 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.
• Strong understanding of transit service, corridor, and network planning and how transit investments support land use, and economic development goals.
• Bachelor’s Degree in Transportation Planning, Urban Planning, or a related field (or equivalent experience.)
• American Institute of Certified Planners (AICP)
• Knowledge of federal transportation grants and policy (FTA and FHWA), including using planning and performance data to support grant development, compliance, and alignment with federal funding and policy priorities.
• Demonstrated experience working with transit data sources such as the National Transit Database (NTD), using performance, asset, and service data to inform transit planning, funding, and system improvement decisions.
• Extensive critical thinking and problem-solving skills required to reach conclusions from testing results, data collation, and identify the most effective solutions to accomplish objectives of assigned projects.
• Strong self-leadership and interpersonal communication skills with the ability to effectively, persuasively, and tactfully interact with employees at all levels of the organization.
• Proven track record of upholding workplace safety and ability to abide by WSP’s health, safety and drug/alcohol and harassment policies.
• Remain current in latest transportation planning subject matter, practices, regulations, and techniques.
• Master’s Degree is preferred.
• Experience providing critical reviews for documents and preparing technical deliverables and plans with a high degree of complexity.
• Experience with discipline-specific software (i.e. ArcGIS/ QGIS, ReMIx).
• A minimum of 10 years of experience in transportation planning, including work on plans, zoning updates, public engagement, regulatory compliance, and projects involving equitable development, demand management, mobility, multimodal access, surface transportation, and funding.

Benefits

Training + Development

Interview process

Visa Sponsorship

Security clearance