Senior Vice President, Transit and Rail Engineering

This Opportunity

WSP is initiating a search for a Transit and Rail Project Manager, Vice President for our WSP USA Inc. Houston office. Provide national leadership to ensure fleet maintenance facility projects and programs are delivered with a level of quality that meets or exceeds acceptable industry standards for design, safety, sustainability, structural integrity, and functionality. Be a part of a growing organization that meets our client’s objectives and solves their challenges. 

Your Impact

• Provide proactive and strategic process and project leadership for the design of fleet  maintenance facilities.
• Lead complex and large scale fleet maintenance facility projects ensuring contributors know what they are required to do and by when, preparing and overseeing relevant project budgets, monitoring internal and external events, tracking timelines, hours and expenses, ensuring satisfactory performance and profitability.
• Responsible for the pursuit and development of business and the successful execution of work for current and potential fleet maintenance facility projects within the national arena.
• Lead technical aspects of contract negotiation, presentations and meetings.
• Support the overall long-term strategy, growth and pipeline development of fleet maintenance facility work for WSP (planning, design, strategic consulting and program/construction management.
• Accountable for the profitable performance of the individual projects and the successful completion of the projects.
• Lead discipline meetings and continuing educational opportunities, providing recommendations that foster innovation, development and quality project delivery.
• Provide senior leadership for proposals and project work scopes, pricing budget and performance metrics for fleet maintenance facility design.
• Provide discipline leadership to multi-disciplinary project teams and contribute to providing high level strategic advice to clients.
• Provide quality control on projects.
• Develop high-level business contacts and client base providing high level industrial design services including identifying additional business development opportunities, and cross-selling of other WSP capabilities.
• 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.
• Remain current in latest information for fleet maintenance facility design.
• Perform additional responsibilities as required by business needs.
   

Who You Are

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Architecture or Industrial Engineering, or closely related discipline.
• 15+ years of relevant post education experience in learned discipline.
• Advanced proficiency with fleet maintenance facility principles, practices, processes, standard of care, and the application to permitting and project work-related issues.
• Demonstrated experience in fleet maintenance facility projects delivered by means of various forms of project deliver (design-bid-build, design/build, CMAR, progressive design/build)
• Extensive advance proficiency with building and infrastructure design.
• Advance knowledge of relevant construction laws, codes, regulations, compliance practices, and record-keeping requirements, and the business impact on the organization.
• Demonstrated ability with establishing, implementing, and managing multiple larger-scale programs, documents and projects.
• Excellent leadership and interpersonal communication skills with the ability to effectively, persuasively and tactfully interact with employees at all levels of the organization.
• Strategic lateral thinking and strong analytical skills with attention to detail and priorizations of responsibilities in a pressure work environment.
• Ability to elicit cooperation from a wide variety of sources, including sentior management, clients, and company-wide staff, including those with whom no formal hierarchical relationship exists.
• Strong ability to quickly adapt to change and demonstrate flexibility to a variety of schedules and hours to meet business needs.
• Advanced knowledge and proficiency with office automation, discipline-specific design software (i.e. MicroStation, AutoCAD, REVIT, SketchUp, Adobe Creative Suite), technology, math principles, graphics, spreadsheets and tools used in the corporate environment.
• Proven track record of upholding workplace safety and ability to abide by WSP’s health, safety and drug/alcohol and harassment policies.
• Occasional travel may be required depending 
   

Preferred Qualifications 

• Master’s Degree in Engineering.
• Essential P