Senior Technical Director, Transportation Engineering
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Location: Seattle, WA 98115
Description:
Job Description
This Opportunity
WSP USA is actively seeking a Senior Technical Director, Transportation Engineering with strong experience in transportation infrastructure and operations project for our Western Washington location. This role provides guidance to PMs and managers that address current and future challenges, ensuring that project delivery meets federal, state, regional and local regulations and requirements. The incumbent will be responsible to assist PMs, managers and project teams in the development and delivery of scope, schedule, budget, quality and risk on assigned programs and projects.
This position can be based out of WSP's Tacoma-WA, Seattle-WA or Vancouver-WA office.
Your Impact
Who You Are
Required Qualifications
Preferred Qualifications
WSP Benefits:
WSP provides a comprehensive suite of benefits focused on a providing health and financial stability throughout the employee's career. These benefits include coverage related to medical, dental, vision, disability, and life; retirement savings; paid sick leave; paid vacation (or other personal time); paid parental leave; and paid time off for purposes of bereavement, voting, and/or attendance at naturalization proceedings.
Compensation:
Expected Salary (all locations): $157,000 - $300,410
WSP USA is providing the compensation range that the company in good faith believes it might pay and offer for this position, based on the successful applicant's education, experience, knowledge, skills, abilities in addition to internal equity and specific geographic location. WSP USA reserves the right to ultimately pay more or less than the posted range and offer additional benefits and other compensation, depending on circumstances not related to an applicant's sex or other status protected by local, state, and/or federal law.
#LI-RF1
About Us
About WSP
WSP USA is the U.S. operating company of WSP, one of the world's leading engineering and professional services firms. Dedicated to serving local communities, we are engineers, planners, technical experts, strategic advisors and construction management professionals. WSP USA designs lasting solutions in the buildings, transportation, energy, water and environment markets. With more than 15,000 employees in over 300 offices across the U.S., we partner with our clients to help communities prosper.
www.wsp.com
WSP provides a flexible and agile workplace model while meeting client needs. Employees are also afforded a comprehensive suite of benefits including medical, dental, vision, disability, life, and retirement savings focused on providing health and financial stability throughout the employee's career.
At WSP, we want to give our employees the challenges they seek to grow their careers and knowledge base. Your daily contributions to your team will be essential in meeting client objectives, goals and challenges. Are you ready to get started?
WSP USA (and all of its U.S. companies) is an Equal Opportunity Employer Race/Age/Color/Religion/Sex/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity/National Origin/Disability or Protected Veteran Status.
The selected candidate must be authorized to work in the United States.
NOTICE TO THIRD PARTY AGENCIES:
WSP does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruiters, employment agencies, or other staffing services. Unsolicited resumes include any resume or hiring document sent to WSP in the absence of a signed Service Agreement where WSP has expressly requested recruitment/staffing services specific to the position at hand. Any unsolicited resumes, including those submitted to hiring managers or other business leaders, will become the property of WSP and WSP will have the right to hire that candidate without reservation - no fee or other compensation will be owed or paid to the recruiter, employment agency, or other staffing service.
This Opportunity
WSP USA is actively seeking a Senior Technical Director, Transportation Engineering with strong experience in transportation infrastructure and operations project for our Western Washington location. This role provides guidance to PMs and managers that address current and future challenges, ensuring that project delivery meets federal, state, regional and local regulations and requirements. The incumbent will be responsible to assist PMs, managers and project teams in the development and delivery of scope, schedule, budget, quality and risk on assigned programs and projects.
This position can be based out of WSP's Tacoma-WA, Seattle-WA or Vancouver-WA office.
Your Impact
- Provide proactive and strategic process and people leadership for project/program delivery from planning through operation.
- Provide cross-functional support (project delivery, technical expertise, business development, people leadership, operations) as need in the Washington transportation group and, as necessary, to Mountain Pacific region and/or national programs/projects.
- Maintain a current level of knowledge and understanding of federal, state, and local policy and procedural changes, with particular attention to emergent changes.
- Maintain a high level of commitment to internal and external client service.
- Collaborate with the Business Line leadership to attract and retain industry-best talent, fostering a work environment that is collaborative and invites broad, creative thinking to effect an attractive workplace to grow and thrive.
- 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.
- Perform additional responsibilities as required by business needs.
Who You Are
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, or closely related discipline
- 15+ years of relevant post education experience in engineering, civil and infrastructure design and operations
- Registration as a Professional Engineer in Washington
- Advanced proficiency with civil engineering principles, practices, process, design/build, standard of care, and the application to permitting and project work-related issues.
- Excellent interpersonal skills necessary to effectively communicate and collaborate with clients, project managers, business leaders, subconsultant partners, and technical staff
- Ability to convey complete technical concepts to a variety of audiences
- Strong project management and organizational skills including time management, delegation, monitoring and controlling skills
- 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 on project-specific requirements.
Preferred Qualifications
- Master's Degree in Engineering (or equivalent)
- PMP and/or DBIA certification (or related)
- Knowledge of highway, transit, and major structures design and delivery practices and procedures
- Strong experience in managing the review and approval of document and discipline-specific deliverables, certifications, processes and plans in a program environment
WSP Benefits:
WSP provides a comprehensive suite of benefits focused on a providing health and financial stability throughout the employee's career. These benefits include coverage related to medical, dental, vision, disability, and life; retirement savings; paid sick leave; paid vacation (or other personal time); paid parental leave; and paid time off for purposes of bereavement, voting, and/or attendance at naturalization proceedings.
Compensation:
Expected Salary (all locations): $157,000 - $300,410
WSP USA is providing the compensation range that the company in good faith believes it might pay and offer for this position, based on the successful applicant's education, experience, knowledge, skills, abilities in addition to internal equity and specific geographic location. WSP USA reserves the right to ultimately pay more or less than the posted range and offer additional benefits and other compensation, depending on circumstances not related to an applicant's sex or other status protected by local, state, and/or federal law.
#LI-RF1
About Us
About WSP
WSP USA is the U.S. operating company of WSP, one of the world's leading engineering and professional services firms. Dedicated to serving local communities, we are engineers, planners, technical experts, strategic advisors and construction management professionals. WSP USA designs lasting solutions in the buildings, transportation, energy, water and environment markets. With more than 15,000 employees in over 300 offices across the U.S., we partner with our clients to help communities prosper.
www.wsp.com
WSP provides a flexible and agile workplace model while meeting client needs. Employees are also afforded a comprehensive suite of benefits including medical, dental, vision, disability, life, and retirement savings focused on providing health and financial stability throughout the employee's career.
At WSP, we want to give our employees the challenges they seek to grow their careers and knowledge base. Your daily contributions to your team will be essential in meeting client objectives, goals and challenges. Are you ready to get started?
WSP USA (and all of its U.S. companies) is an Equal Opportunity Employer Race/Age/Color/Religion/Sex/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity/National Origin/Disability or Protected Veteran Status.
The selected candidate must be authorized to work in the United States.
NOTICE TO THIRD PARTY AGENCIES:
WSP does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruiters, employment agencies, or other staffing services. Unsolicited resumes include any resume or hiring document sent to WSP in the absence of a signed Service Agreement where WSP has expressly requested recruitment/staffing services specific to the position at hand. Any unsolicited resumes, including those submitted to hiring managers or other business leaders, will become the property of WSP and WSP will have the right to hire that candidate without reservation - no fee or other compensation will be owed or paid to the recruiter, employment agency, or other staffing service.