Assistant Vice President, Transportation Planning

WSP USA; Dallas (TX); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

WSP USA, Inc. seeks an Assistant Vice President in Transportation Planning to lead and grow our Advisory & Planning practice in Texas, with Houston preference. You will act as a client advisor, project leader, and staff manager on transportation projects across the state.

The role requires deep expertise in planning, design, and program management, with a track record of delivering complex multi-disciplinary studies while ensuring compliance with laws and regulations. Travel may be required.

Qualifications

• At least 10 years of progressive experience in transportation planning or related fields.
• Experience leading projects and supervising staff.
• Bachelor's degree in a relevant field.
• Ability to develop business and technical strategy and deliverables.
• Experience with project administration and management in transportation.
• Strong communication skills and high energy.
• Proficiency with the transportation project development cycle.
• Advanced MS Office; familiarity with MicroStation and GIS desirable.
• Excellent written and oral communication; samples may be requested.
• Authorized to work in the United States with a valid driver's license.
• Occasional travel may be required.

Responsibilities

• Oversee use of topographic maps, air photos, GPS data to locate project areas and assess impacts.
• Lead large-scale transportation planning projects, manage budgets, hours, and staff.
• Contribute to multi-disciplinary teams through all phases of projects and permitting.
• Ensure compliance with federal, state, and local laws and policies.
• Support long-term strategy and pipeline development in Transportation Planning.
• Perform planning investigations, surveys, and analyses for future needs and equitable development.
• Lead contract negotiations, presentations, and meetings.
• Summarize data for sound planning and regulatory conclusions to minimize impacts.

Skills

Project management

Team leadership

Communication skills

Strategic thinking

Client advisory

Budget monitoring

Transportation planning

Office software

Presentation skills

Education

Bachelor's degree in Transportation Planning

Urban Planning

Civil Engineering

Environmental Planning

Public Policy

Tools

Microsoft Office

Outlook

Word

Excel

PowerPoint

MicroStation

GIS

Job description

This Opportunity

WSP USA, Inc. (WSP) is looking for an Assistant Vice President in Transportation Planning for our Advisory & Planning business in Texas with preference for Houston. We are looking for a motivated, highly skilled, and experienced transportation with focus in the transportation industry, particularly transit. This position is expected to provide subject matter expertise as well as be a client advisor, staff manager, and pursuit and project manager on Texas projects and programs. This position will work closely with planning, environmental, civil, and transit/rail staff across WSP to research, analyze, document and present information related to various types of transportation projects across Texas.

Your Impact

• 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).

• Perform professional transportation planning work and conduct investigations, inspections, studies, and surveys to gain further information on a particular problem or issue, verify site characteristics, and/or to plan for future needs affecting equitable development, construction, transportation demand management, mobility planning, and multimodal access.

• Lead technical aspects of contract negotiation, presentations, and meetings.

• 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.

Who You Are

Required Qualifications

• A minimum of 10 years of progressively responsible experience in transportation planning, environmental planning, or policy work.

• The successful candidate will have worked on and led projects similar to those described above, overseeing the work of others successfully and/or managing staff

• A Bachelor's degree in Transportation Planning, Urban Planning, Environmental Planning, Civil Engineering, Public Policy, or a related field.

• Ability to develop business and technical strategy with others as well as develop and manage high quality technical and professional deliverables on projects and proposals.

• Experience with project administration and project management in the transportation sector.

• Possess strong communication skills, a high level of energy, enthusiasm, and positive attitude

• Proficiency with the transportation project development cycle, including from planning to implementation.

• Good computer skills, including proficiency in Microsoft Office programs including Outlook, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint are necessary. Experience with MicroStation and/or GIS programs is highly desirable.

• Ability to effectively present and communicate ideas orally and in written form and excellent writing skills are required. The successful candidate may be requested to provide prior samples.

• Ability to work in the United States, and possession of a valid driver’s license is required.

• 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 is preferred.

• Essential professional licensure/certification.

• Experience with Texas-based transit agencies.

• Experience with Texas Department of Transportation.

• Experience with Texas-based Metropolitan Planning Organizations.

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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.

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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.