Project Manager - Thermal Generations - Remote

WSP Global Inc.; Overland Park (KS); Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

WSP Global Inc. is seeking a Thermal Generations Project Manager for Overland Park, KS, with additional offices in Houston, TX, and Phoenix, AZ. You’ll lead major projects through initiation to closeout, ensuring quality, efficiency, and client satisfaction.

You will drive budgets, schedules, risk management, and stakeholder communications, mentoring staff and ensuring QA/QC across deliverables. Travel and cross-office collaboration are expected in a dynamic, engineering-focused environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in engineering, science, or related major, or equivalent experience.
• 12+ years of relevant post-education experience in a project management role within the industry.
• Strong understanding of project delivery processes in A/E/C and project management background.
• Analytical and organizational skills with business acumen to bridge business and project management.
• Critical thinking and problem-solving skills applying PM principles with impact awareness.
• Interpersonal and communication skills to interact with leadership, subcontractors, and staff.
• Self-leadership with attention to detail, multitasking, and adaptability to changing priorities.
• Ability to work independently and lead mid-level to senior team members with QA/QC.
• Technical writing, office automation, MS Office suite, and PM tools knowledge.
• Experience reviewing and approving documents and deliverables in multi-project env.
• Ability to elicit cooperation from diverse sources including senior management and subcontractors.
• Uphold workplace safety and comply with health, safety policies.
• Adaptability to schedule shifts and occasional travel as required.
• Preferred: Master's in Engineering and PMP/CAP-M certification.

Responsibilities

• Provide PM leadership for larger scale, complex projects, including budgets, forecasts, KPIs, and risk tracking.
• Develop strategies to engage stakeholders, maintain relationships, and report progress.
• Participate in pursuit/initiation activities including Go/No-Go decisions and risk mitigation.
• Engage in contract negotiations, presentations, and meetings as needed.
• Direct reviews to ensure QA/QC and proper staff assignment for reviews.
• Provide inputs to multi-disciplinary teams and offer strategic advice to clients.
• Mentor staff and provide performance guidance to project teams.
• Maintain updates to risk, PMP, QP, PSP, and communications plans.
• Coordinate with area managers on resources and subcontracting requirements.
• Maintain client communication with monthly status, safety incidents, and budget impacts.

Skills

PM leadership

Engineering

Project management

Analytical skills

Interpersonal communication

Multi-tasking

QA/QC

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering/science or related major

Master's Degree in Engineering

Tools

MS Office

Word

Excel

Visio

Project

SharePoint

Job description

WSP is currently initiating a search for a Thermal Generations Project Manager for our Overland Park, KS; Houston, TX; and Phoenix, AZ offices.

Be involved in projects with our Project Management Team and be a part of a growing organization that meets our clients' objectives and solves their challenges.

This Opportunity

Provides situational administrative and technical project management guidance for the development, execution, management, and monitoring of designated projects within a specific geography or discipline in support of company, regional, and national business line goals. Ensures responsibilities throughout the project lifecycle (proposal phase, planning and project startup, project execution, reporting, and project closeout) are adhered to, delivered, and audited with a level of quality that meets or exceeds corporate project excellence and delivery standards. Provides innovation, administration, and pragmatic direction to address current and future project management challenges in a rapidly changing and complex business and operations climate.

Your Impact

• Provide PM leadership for larger scale/more complex projects ensuring contributors know what they are required to do and by when, preparing and overseeing relevant project budgets, forecasts, margins and KPIs, monitoring external events and risk contingencies, tracking hours and expenses, ensuring satisfactory performance, and managing the contractual obligations to deliver the project or assigned portfolio of assigned project(s) as defined in the contract.
• Develop and foster effective strategies to engage project stakeholders at all levels, maintain effective relationships, and report on project progress.
• Provide guidance with pursuit/initiation activities for projects meeting defined criteria or risk profile; including "Go / No-Go" decisions, contract reviews, risk mitigation strategies, pricing reviews, etc.
• Participate in the technical aspects of contract negotiation, presentations, and meetings.
• Actively drive the appropriate levels of technical review required for the project, selecting appropriately qualified staff to perform the required reviews, and adherence to the QA/QC plan, as applicable.
• Provide verbal and/or written inputs to multi-disciplinary project teams and contribute to providing high level strategic advice to clients.
• Mentor staff to support their growth and professional development.
• Manage and provide performance guidance and leadership to assigned staff.
• Ensure updates occur with system and process documentation including: Risk (REF/RMP), Project Management Plan (PMP), Project Quality Plan (QP), Project Safety (PSP), and Communications Plan where applicable.
• Facilitate project kick-off meetings with key stakeholders.
• Coordinate with area/technical managers to address project resource and subcontracting requirements in a timely manner.
• Maintain regular communications with the client including reporting on monthly status, safety incidents, and major issues together with scope and budget impacts.
• Participate in and oversee problem project reviews, providing input about root cause issues and potential solutions. Assist with developing project recovery plans.
• Ensure regular project reporting and updates are provided to clients, technical areas, and business unit managers, identifying any emergent issues with scope, risk, and/or budget.
• Monitor accounts receivable (AR) and unbilled revenue, working to address issues as needed.
• Complete formal project closeout activities, along with facilitating and documenting a lessons-learned meeting with key project staff.
• Remain current in the latest Project Management techniques and practices (PMAP).
• 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

• Bachelor's degree in engineering, science, or a related major, or equivalent experience in a technical or engineering firm.
• 12+ years of relevant post education experience in a project management role within our industry.
• Highly proficient understanding of project delivery process within the A/E/C industry and strong background and experience in project management.
• Advanced proficiency with analytical and organizational skills, with business acumen to bridge the business and project management.
• Advanced proficiency with critical thinking and problem-solving skills to make assessments and calculations involving the application of project management principles, with a sound understanding of intent, impact, and optimal outcomes.
• Advanced proficiency with interpersonal and communication skills to interact effectively, persuasively, and tactfully with leadership, subcontractors, and employees at all levels of the organization.
• Excellent self-leadership with attention to detail, multi-tasking, and adjusting readily to the changing prioritization of responsibilities in a dynamic work environment.
• Works independently and provides guidance and leadership to mid-level to senior level team or project members, with strict adherence to QA/QC.
• Advanced proficiency with technical writing, office automation, relevant software, MS Office suite products (e.g., Word, Excel, Visio, Project, SharePoint), technology, spreadsheets, and PM tools.
• Strong experience in managing the review and approval of documents and discipline-specific project deliverables, processes, and plans in a multi-project environment is highly desirable.
• Ability to elicit cooperation from a wide variety of sources, including senior management, subcontractors, consultants, and company-wide staff, including those with whom no formal hierarchical relationship exits.
• Proven track record of upholding workplace safety and ability to abide by WSP's health, safety and drug/alcohol and harassment policies.
• Strong ability to quickly adapt to change and demonstrate flexibility to a variety of schedules and hours to meet project-specific needs.
• Occasional travel may be required depending on project-specific requirements.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's Degree in Engineering.
• Essential project management certification (e.g., PMP, CAP-M).

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