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Assistant Vice President, Transportation Planner
WSP USA / Los Angeles, San Diego, Irvine
Posted on: October 2, 2023
Application Deadline: Open until filled
Job Description
WSP is currently initiating a search for a Vice President, Southern California Transportation Planning Director.
This position can be based out of the following California Offices: Los Angeles, San Diego, Irvine. Be involved in projects with our California Advisory Team and be a part of a growing organization that meets our client’s objectives and solves their challenges.
The Assistant Vice President will have an entrepreneurial spirit, creating a vision for growth and contributing to the development of our multi-disciplinary planning practice in Southern California. You will assist in marketing and business development while delivering a wide variety of transportation planning projects with our growing team of planning professionals. Beyond serving our existing clients, you will have the ability to pursue your passions, leads, and clients. Our Assistant Vice Presidents manage their projects profitably, engage in practice and delivery of projects, transition work to qualified staff, and act as a positive leader and mentor.
- Lead and support transportation planning projects which may include but are not limited to multimodal planning, active transportation planning, first/last mile planning, corridor planning, long-range planning, transportation demand management, transit planning, and public involvement.
- Conduct project management which includes 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.
- Prepare, coordinate, and facilitate public involvement and consensus-building meetings in support of client project work, answering public questions on behalf of the client, and assisting with long-range planning efforts on larger-size or more complex projects.
- Remain current in the latest transportation planning subject matter, practices, regulations, and techniques.
- Manage and provide performance guidance and leadership to assigned staff.
- Conduct business development which includes establishing project leads, pre-positioning for pursuits, leading and contributing to proposals including scope and budget development, leading and participating in interviews, and negotiating the contract.
- Develop a client base for providing high-level transportation planning services including identifying additional business development opportunities, and cross-selling other WSP capabilities.
- 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.
Required Experience / Skills / Education
- Bachelor’s Degree in Transportation Planning, Urban Planning, Environmental Planning, or a related field (or equivalent experience).
- 10+ years of experience working in the transportation planning field, actively engaging in a variety of subdisciplines such as multimodal planning, active transportation planning, first/last mile planning, corridor planning, long-range planning, transportation demand management, transit planning, and public involvement.
- Experience in business development including finding leads, pre-positioning and building relationships with clients, developing proposals, interviewing, and negotiating contracts.
- Advanced proficiency with the transportation project development cycle from planning to implementation.
- Highly proficient expertise with planning skills for a specific ecosystem(s), geography, transportation networks, systems, and modalities.
- Demonstrated technical competence leading permitting and approval of assigned planning projects.
- Highly proficient with reviewing surface transportation projects and program cost estimates and assessing project readiness for inclusion in the strategic local/regional Transportation Plan.
- Advanced expertise with consulting practices and established experience coordinating with clients, regulatory agencies, subcontractors, and technical staff required.
- Ability to work independently and provide guidance and leadership to mid-level to senior-level team or project members, with strict adherence to QA/QC.
- Experienced with providing critical reviews for documents and preparing technical deliverables and plans with a high degree of complexity.
- Strong self-leadership and interpersonal communication skills with the ability to effectively, persuasively, and tactfully interact with employees at all levels of the organization.
- Experience with ArcGIS.
- Proficiency with technical business writing, office automation and communication software, technology, and tools.
- Extensive critical thinking and problem-solving skills required to reach conclusions from testing results, data collation, and identify the most effective solutions to accomplish objectives of assigned projects.
- Proven track record of upholding workplace safety and ability to abide by WSP’s health, safety, and drug/alcohol and harassment policies.
- Must be flexible to a variety of schedules to meet business needs and able to prioritize responsibilities and quickly adapt to change in a pressure work environment.
- Occasional travel may be required depending on project-specific requirements.
Application Instructions
Apply online at: https://phe.tbe.taleo.net/phe01/ats/careers/v2/viewRequisition?org=V8D6AK&cws=37&rid=15285
