Jobs for People with MS: National MS Society

This Opportunity

WSP seeks to hire a Vice President to be leader in WSP’s Civil and Ground Engineering Services, with a focus on the Solid Waste and Mining Sectors. The position can be based in any of the Southwest States but will roll-up under our California Region of our Earth & Environment Business-Line . The candidate will play a key leadership role in our California and Southwest States as we continue to strengthen and expand our Civil and Ground Engineering Services. In this role, you will be a leader who leverages cross collaboration with other WSP business-lines such as Transport and Infrastructure (T&I), Property and Buildings (P&B), Energy, Water, Federal, Advisory Services, and Project Management and Construction Management (PMCM) to bring value to our clients. WSP has over 5000 multidisciplinary professionals in Southwest State and California between all our business-lines and a further 20,000 nationally.

At WSP, we are driven by inspiring the right people to be part of our Future Ready business objectives. Our devotion to teamwork has allowed us to build communities, expand our horizons and partner our clients. Here at WSP, anything is within our reach and yours as a WSP employee. Come join us and help shape the future!

Your Impact

As part of the team, you will be a major contributor and leading project teams within our Civil and Ground Engineering, Earth & Environment Team delivering services for civil, environmental and ground-engineering projects that involve waste management and mining facility design and permitting, stormwater management, landfill gas management, operations planning, construction quality assurance.

WSP’s vision is based on a passionate, thoughtful strategy that embraces the four pillars of our business: Clients, People & Culture, Operational Excellence, and Expertise:

Clients

• Drives performance of the civil and ground engineering services, working with other senior practitioners and business-lines, strategically grows our market share to fulfill our goal that WSP become the preferred, trusted advisor to our clients.

• Manages local client coordination and cross-selling efforts in coordination with the broader California and Southwest Regions and National Client and Sector Teams.

• Brings an expanded view and integrated response to complex challenges by leveraging our full suite of offerings across all end-markets.

• Utilizes our extended reach of technical and subject matter experts (SMEs) across the region, offices and the globe to foster new and innovative client delivery.

• Drives growth through excellence in delivery and client relationship management and being a “trusted advisor”.

People & Culture

• Works with regional and national business-line leadership to attract the best industry talent by fostering a work environment that is collaborative, values inclusion and diversity and invites broad, creative thinking – crafting a more attractive place to work, grow and thrive.

• Emphasizes employee training, development and mentoring to create a unique work experience.

• Inspires, motivates and promotes the best of WSP to our clients and communities to ensure strong employee engagement and morale.

• 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.

Expertise & Operational Excellence

• Provide proactive and strategic leadership for the civil engineering discipline and function, offering direction, expertise, and support to ensure project and work site deliverables are successfully achieved within the business sector.

• Lead larger-scale more complex civil engineering 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 satisfactory performance, and supervising subcontractors, contract work, and employees.

• Function as the regional manager to lead Construction Quality Assurance programs for a variety of clients and end-markets, bring together our field teams and establishing common standards for workload balancing and service delivery.

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

• Support the overall long-term strategy, growth, and pipeline development of Civil Engineering work for WSP in assigned area of responsibility

• Responsible for the profitable performance of the individual projects and the successful completion of the projects within the specified area.

• Ensure that engineering discipline certifications, accreditations, and value proposition is developed and continuously improved.

• Serve as the engineering disciplines lead representatives/liaisons 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 – and accountable for planning, development and management of projects in compliance with all applicable City/State/Federal codes and regulations, and in accordance with all acceptable engineering practices.

• Interpret and summarize data, including reports and documents that result in sound engineering and regulatory conclusions.

Who You Are

Required Qualifications

• Minimum Bachelors of Science degree in Civil Engineering or related degree

• Valid PE registration, preferably in NV, CO, NM and AZ with a commitment to seek PE in CA.

• 12+ years of experience in the practice of civil engineering design

• Experience in any of the following areas of practice; design and construction quality assurance for solid waste containment systems, preparing permitting documents for solid waste facilities, landfill gas compliance and management, preparing fill sequence and master plans for solid waste facilities (experience in more than one area preferred)

• Extensive experience in leading teams providing CQA services for Solid Waste and Mining Sector Clients

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

• Proficient in Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint software

• Ability to work both independently and within groups

• Excellent work history with leadership abilities and a positive attitude

• Candidate must interact well with the public and clients and have excellent teamwork skills

• Advanced proficiency with making technical computations and calculations involving the application of engineering principles, understanding plans and specifications and making factual comparisons to the appropriate regulations.

• Works independently and provides guidance and leadership to mid-level to senior level team or project members, with strict adherence to QA/QC.

• Excellent leadership and interpersonal communication skills with the ability to effectively, persuasively, and tactfully interact with employees at all levels of the organization.

• Tactical lateral thinking and strong analytical skills with attention to detail and prioritization of responsibilities in a pressure work environment.

• Ability to elicit cooperation from a wide variety of sources, including senior management, clients, regulators, 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 business needs.

• Routine travel may be required depending on project-specific requirements.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master’s Degree would be an asset.

• Basic First Aid and Adult CPR training and other relevant industry safety training (OSHA Hazwoper, MSHA)

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 (California): $146,700 - $205,000

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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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.