Senior Vice President/ Vertical Transportation Technical Excellence (TEC) Lead

This Opportunity

WSP is looking for a Senior Vice President/ Vertical Transportation Technical Excellence (TEC) Lead for our Northern California Transportation Business Line. Serving as the Vertical Transportation TEC Lead the candidate will play a key leadership role in the California Region as we continue to strengthen and expand our Transportation practice, promote collaboration and teamwork with a focus to build our local team, and drive solutions in support our clients, and communities. This position can be based out of our any of WSP's Northern California offices: San Francisco-CA, Roseville/Sacramento-CA, Oakland-CA or San Jose-CA.

The Vertical Transportation TEC Lead will assist with technical project delivery, assist in developing and implementing marketing strategies, support business service delivery through WSP’s strategy focused on four pillars of success: Clients, Expertise, People & Culture and Operational Excellence, and assist in delivering services and solutions to bring value to our clients. 

The Northern California Transportation Business Line is broadening its expertise to further support our clients, deliver solutions, and lead innovation in the Vertical Transportation sector, encompassing design of complex systems. The Vertical Transportation TEC Lead is a newly imagined role that will serve as the external face of Northern California Transportation’s Vertical Transportation market service and may bring Regional or National Leaders to support growing the business to meet annual tactical and long-term strategic objectives. 

The candidate will provide direct leadership of a multi-discipline technical excellence team, provide leadership to ensure technical practices such as mechanical and electrical engineering, and vertical transportation solutions including technical deliverables and programs are delivered with quality and demonstrates technical excellence. The candidate may lead or assist on technical proposals and business development activities, attend, or facilitate internal or external client meetings, perform project management of projects and assigned staff, design simple to complex projects, coordinate among various disciplines, and develop contract documents. Assist in the project delivery and the development and implementation of Region’s marketing and business growth strategies, and coordinate workshare with offices across the Northern California, and technical excellence offices across Transportation and Infrastructure and other WSP business services and offices. 

At WSP, we are driven by inspiring the right people to be part of our Future Ready business objectives. Our devotion to teamwork has allowed us to build communities and expand our skylines. Here at WSP, anything is within our reach and yours as a WSP employee. Come join us and help shape the future!

Your Impact

WSP’s vision is based on a passionate, thoughtful strategy that embraces the four pillars of our business: Clients, People & Culture, Operational Excellence, and Expertise.

Operational Excellence 

• Optimizes the client and employee experience through regular review and implements process improvements and provide 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 district’s technical excellence.
• Focuses on innovation and enhancing mechanical and electrical systems including vertical transportation technical solutions for transportation and infrastructure market services including aviation and others such as property and buildings, federal programs, advisory services, and project management/construction management.
• Focuses on the latest advancements in vertical transportation systems and technology to deliver innovative, cost-efficient and integrated applications to meet project and clients’ needs.
• Drives technical excellence, quality and optimization for mechanical and electrical design, delivery, quality management and assurance. 
• Responsible for subject matter expertise innovation and administration and ensures technical and corporate compliance with standards. 
• Collaborate with region leaders, technical excellence leaders and project/program management teams and other area leaders to establish quality and sustainable standards. 
• Supports the development of local growth, forecast and business development strategy in collaboration with District, Region and National Business Line Leaders. 
• Resolves conflict and other internal/external issues that may arise in the office, amongst WSP’s client base, or on projects. 
• Collaborate with regional, district leaders and other area leaders to strategically drive the business with focus on business growth, manage project performance, overs