Vice President, Transportation Planning

This Opportunity

Provides leadership within our Mid-Atlantic Planning team, focused on leading Washington, DC, Virginia, and West Virginia business and team development. Ensure transportation planning subject matter, technical deliverables, and programs are delivered with a level of quality that meets or exceeds acceptable industry and company standards. Closely collaborate with other regional business leads within Planning as well as inter-disciplinary teams both regionally and nationally. Responsible for SME innovation and administration; ensuring corporate compliance with all Local, State, and Federal Agency regulations; and providing pragmatic direction to address current and future planning challenges in a rapidly-changing and complex business climate.

Your Impact

• Provide proactive and strategic leadership for the planning discipline and function, offering direction, expertise, and support to ensure project and work site deliverables are successfully achieved within the business sector; focused on business and talent development with the Mid-Atlantic South Planning team’s Washington, DC, Virginia, and West Virginia practice.
• Oversee the appropriate use of topographic maps, aerial photographs, GPS data, and other visualization tools to determine exact locations of project areas, associated physical / urban / population / economic / political sensitivities, and to uncover primary, secondary, and tertiary impacts.
• Lead larger-scale more complex transportation planning projects ensuring contributors know what they are required to do and by when, preparing and overseeing relevant project budgets, monitoring external events, tracking hours and expenses, ensuring profitability and satisfactory performance, and supervising subcontractors, contract work, and employees.
• Responsible for the contribution and management of multi-disciplinary project teams in all phases of the execution and delivery of siting, impact assessment, approval and permitting for assigned business sector projects, as well as transportation planning and management projects.
• Actively foster compliance with applicable Federal, State, and Local Agency laws, policies, and regulatory requirements.
• Support the overall long-term strategy, growth, and pipeline development of Transportation Planning work for WSP in assigned area of responsibility, with a focus on opportunities in all disciplines (planning, design, strategic consulting, and program management).
• Lead technical aspects of contract negotiation, presentations, and meetings.
• Assist with the preparation of an annual update to business tactical action plans within the specified area. This includes the development and implementation of strategic approaches focused on helping the team meet their financial and KPI targets on an annual basis.
• Ensure that planning discipline certifications, accreditations, and value proposition are developed and continuously improved.
• Conduct needs analyses and client value surveys to align the planning discipline’s function with business and project strategy, identifying and addressing any skill gaps or risks within the sector business operations.
• Schedule planning discipline meetings, providing updates and recommendations to ensure that all reasonable and proper measures are taken to inculcate discipline expertise and innovation into project work.
• Serve as one of the planning discipline’s lead representatives / liaison to a variety of external entities including Federal, State, and Local Agencies, Clients, Subcontractors, industry-related groups, and various government and community entities.
• Develop and inform proposal and project scopes, timelines, pricing, and budgetary metrics.
• Interpret and summarize data, including reports and documents that result in sound planning and regulatory conclusions to minimize impacts to the community, population, local economy, and environment.
• Lead the development of the team’s Washington, DC, Virginia, and West Virginia client base for providing high-level Transportation Planning services including identifying additional business development opportunities, and cross-selling of other WSP capabilities. Collaborate on other local business in Maryland and West Virginia with other members of our Planning team throughout the Mid Atlantic Region.
• Manage and provide performance guidance and leadership to assigned staff.
• Remain current in the latest transportation planning subject matter, practices, regulations, and techniques.
• Collaborate with professionals from a variety of disciplines to provide “trusted advisor” service and future-ready solutions for clients.
• 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

Preferred Qualifications

WSP Benefits :

WSP provides a comprehensive suite of benefits focused on 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) : $114,000- $210,760

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.

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Salary : $114,000 - $210,760