Senior Vice President, Civil Technical Excellence Center (TEC) Leader

Description

• Supports the development of local growth, forecast and business development strategy in collaboration with Region and National Business Line Leaders.
• Collaborate with regional leaders, technical excellence leaders, project/program management teams and other area leaders to establish quality, technical, and sustainable standards.
• Supports local client coordination and cross-selling efforts in coordination with Region, National Business Lines, and Pursuit Management.
• Leverages our broad technical experience to enhance current and new service offerings with focus on transportation and infrastructure opportunities in all disciplines (planning, design, project/program management).
• Utilizes our extended reach across regions, districts, offices and the globe to foster new and innovative client delivery.
• Develop and inform proposal and project scopes, timelines, pricing, and budgetary metrics – and accountable for planning, development and management of projects in compliance with all applicable City/State/Federal codes and regulations, and in accordance with all acceptable engineering practices.
• Brings an expanded view and integrated response to complex challenges by leveraging our full suite of offerings across all end markets, and technical practices such as civil engineering, electrical, architecture, structures and others.
• Encourages, supports and promotes the technical and professional development of local WSP staff.
• 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.
• Drives performance of the technical excellence practices, business and strategically grows our market share to ensure WSP is a preferred provider to our clients.
• Inspires, motivates and promotes the best of WSP to our clients and communities to ensure strong employee engagement and morale.
• Supports advancement of the strategic direction of the district and region in the location of responsibility for sustained and continued growth consistent within the context of the strategic plan.
• Provides leadership of talent development, workforce forecasting, and recruitment/hiring for the Southern California Civil TEC and team.
• Deploys our unique expertise and perspective to create new value for clients and provides civic and industry leadership within the local area.
• Provides proactive and strategic process and people leadership for the design, implementation and administration of engineering and technical disciplines’ project and program involvement across the district and within the organization.
• Supports WSP Guiding Principles and programs such as Quality, Safety, Sustainability and Ethics & Compliance; and Inclusion & Diversity.
• Collaborates with the Regional Business Leader, local business leaders and others in the development of new and emerging innovations to remain the trusted thought leaders in our industry.
• Directly in engaged in project delivery, project management, and oversight for cross discipline transportation and infrastructure projects.
• Provides leadership of project delivery and technical solutions for teams deliveringplans, designs, and reports for construction and maintenance of infrastructure projects in the California region with a focus on Southern California.
• Optimizes the client and employee experience through regular reviews and implements process improvements, and provides leadership to ensure technical practices and programs are delivered with a level of quality that meets or exceeds acceptable industry standards, and which elevates the region’s technical excellence and delivery of infrastructure projects
• Works with the California Region Business Leader to organize the business with focus on vision and culture, talent development and building teams, client engagement and experience, and performance and growth strategy.
• Collaborates with Region Business Leader to attract the best industry talent by fostering a work environment that is collaborative, values inclusion and diversity and invites broad, creative thinking – crafting a more attractive place to work, grow and thrive.
• Provides proactive leadership of recruiting, mentoring, and developing high-performing teams.
• Resolves conflict and other internal/external issues that may arise in the office, amongst client base, and/or on projects.
• Supports in the implementation of alternative delivery principles and practices.
• Collaborates with regional, local leaders and other members of the leadership team to strategically drive the business with focus on business growth, manage project performance, oversee overhead expenditures, and meet operational, business performance, and financial metrics.
• May serve as project manager and technical lead for PA&E/PS&E projects.
• Perform engineering review of permit applications, engineering design plans and specifications, standby plans and engineering contracts, integrated management plans, and periodic construction inspections, to ensure that they comply with applicable state and/or federal regulations and sound engineering practice and standards.
• Responsible for subject matter expertise, innovation and administration and ensures compliance with technical and corporate standards.
• Leverages technical experience and leadership to support client engagement and provides strategic direction and leadership of Client Engagement Teams (CET).

Requirements

• 15+ years of relevant post education experience in engineering, transportation, infrastructure, and/or project management/project delivery.
• Strong business acumen with an aptitude for improving processes.
• Advanced proficiency with civil engineering principles, practices, process, design/build, standard of care, and the application to permitting and project work-related issues.
• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering, or closely related discipline.
• Strong ability to quickly adapt to change and demonstrate flexibility to a variety of schedules and hours to meet business needs.
• Strongly established relevant client relationships and industry contacts in the local area.
• Strategic lateral thinking and strong analytical skills with attention to detail and prioritization of responsibilities in a pressure work environment.
• California Professional Engineer (P.E.) License
• Demonstrated ability with establishing, implementing, and managing multiple larger-scale discipline-related programs, documents, projects, and practices for a line(s) of business.
• Professional Engineer (P.E.) License Required.
• Advanced knowledge, understanding, and experience with alternative delivery e.g. CM/CG, Design Build, and others.
• Ability to elicit cooperation from a wide variety of sources, including senior management, clients, regulators, and company-wide staff, including those with whom no formal hierarchical relationship exits.
• Advanced knowledge and proficiency with office automation, discipline-specific design software (i.e., MicroStation, AutoCAD, Civil 3D, ArcGIS, InRoads, Geopak, GeoSlope, ANSYS, STADD, HEC-RAS, HEC-HMS), technology, math principles, predictive models, spreadsheets, and tools.
• Ability to innovate and re-think the conventional approach to client and employee engagement.
• Strong experience in managing the review and approval of documents and discipline-specific deliverables, certifications, processes, and plans in a multi-project environment is highly desirable.
• Demonstrates technical experience to advance service offerings and technical excellence through direct project delivery demonstrated by set performance utilization goal as Technical Excellence Practices Leader.
• Tactical lateral thinking and strong analytical skills with attention to detail and prioritization of responsibilities in a pressure work environment.
• Master’s Degree in Engineering.
• Proven track record of upholding workplace safety and ability to abide by WSP’s health, safety and drug/alcohol and harassment policies.
• Advanced working knowledge of relevant civil construction laws, codes, regulations, compliance practices, and record-keeping requirements, and the business impact upon the organization.
• Excellent leadership and interpersonal communication skills with the ability to effectively, persuasively, and tactfully interact with employees at all levels of the organization.

Benefits

Training + Development

Interview process

Visa Sponsorship

Security clearance