Lead Consultant, Advisory Services

Description

• Lead or significantly contribute to proposal preparation and marketing activities
• Keeps up-to-date with technical knowledge of current and emerging practices
• Develop high quality technical and professional deliverables on projects and proposals
• Directs and oversees tasks for deliverable on projects and provides guidance to junior staff
• Support Advisory Services projects within the company, ensuring project management, budget, work product, quality control and financial performance meet company standard
• Perform complex qualitative and quantitative analysis
• Manages scope, schedule and budget for smaller projects
• Proactively identify technical issues and take actions to mitigate risk
• Translate client concerns into actionable scopes, sequences of activities and associated deliverables.
• Leads client meetings and develop trusted relationships
• Adhere to WSP's Code of Conduct and related policies and procedures.
• Navigate ambiguous environments and complex conversations with clients and leadership to define scope and keep the project on track.
• Recommend data driven improvements to achieve future state.
• Develop and drive to completion action-oriented improvement roadmaps.

Requirements

• Lean Six-Sigma certification (or similar)
• Ability to manage project and project team, including time management and working to deadlines.
• Strong interpersonal skills and high emotional intelligence
• Experience in designing and implementing process improvement practices.
• Familiarity with technological solutions and tools that support automation and decision making within the public works environment
• Proven experience in consulting or a comparable role in developing organizational capability, performance improvement and/or process improvement from within an organization
• Understanding of capital delivery processes, particularly in a transit and rail, roadways and/or power industry context. This would include moving through planning, design, procurement, construction, handover to operations.
• Ability to work in a matrixed environment and experience with influencing without authority.
• Project Management Professional (PMP)
• Understanding of government agency operations
• In recognition of the full strategic suite of services offered by Advisory Services, the following degree requirements apply:
• Bachelor’s Degree in relevant field.
• Strong written and oral communication skills
• Proven experience in consulting or a comparable role in developing organizational capability and performance improvement from within an organization
• Prosci certification (or similar)
• Familiarity with industry standard practices, business process mapping notation and methodologies.
• 7 to 10 years of directly relevant , particularly capital delivery for transit and rail, roadways and/or power industry.
• Ability to evaluate current state across people, processes and ideally technology.

Benefits

Training + Development

Interview process

Visa Sponsorship

Security clearance