Senior Vice President, Transportation Planning (Part-Time)

The Opportunity

WSP is currently initiating a search for a Senior Vice President, Tranportation Planning (Part-TIme) for our New York, NY office.  

This role will provide regional and/or multi-sector leadership to ensure transportation planning subject matter expertise (SME), technical deliverables, and programs are delivered with a level of quality that meets or exceeds industry standards.  They ill be responsible for SME innovation and administration; ensuring corporate compliance with all Local, State, and Federal Agency regulations; and providing strategic and consistent direction to address current and future planning challenges in a large-scale and multi-faceted business organization.

Your Impact

• Provide proactive and strategic process and people leadership for the design, implementation, and administration of the planning discipline’s project and program involvement within the organization.
• Lead some of  the most complex and largest scale transportation planning projects within the discipline, ensuring contributors know what they are required to do and by when, preparing and overseeing relevant project budgets, monitoring internal and external events, tracking hours and expenses, ensuring satisfactory performance and profitability, and supervising subcontractors, contract work, and employees.
• Drive compliance and accountability-at-all-levels with applicable Federal, State, and Local planning practices, approval processes, zoning laws, policies and regulatory requirements.
• Oversee the internal vision and mission for the planning discipline, ensuring alignment with business operations strategy, and maintaining that certifications, accreditations, and client value ratings are continuously improved.
• Lead planning discipline meetings and continuing educational opportunities for area of responsibility, providing updates and recommendations to staff that ensure all appropriate measures are taken to foster innovation, development, and quality project delivery within the discipline.  
• Provide leadership for proposals and project work scopes, pricing, budget, and performance metrics for the planning discipline.
• Interpret and summarize data, including reports and documents for complex projects and initiatives that result in sound planning and regulatory conclusions to minimize impacts to the community, population, local economy, and environment.
• Provide leadership to multi-disciplinary project teams and contribute to providing high level strategic advice to clients.
• Develop high level business contacts and a client base for providing high level transportation planning, permitting, approval, and impact assessment services including identifying additional business development opportunities, and cross-selling of other WSP capabilities.
• Remain current in 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

• Master’s Degree in Transportation Planning, Urban Planning, Environmental Planning, or a related field (or equivalent experience).
• 15+ years of Transportation Planning experience in a corporate environment. 
• Strong working knowledge of relevant planning practices, approval processes, zoning laws, permitting requirements, notification and compliance practices, applicable Local / State / Federal regulatory framework and the business impact upon the organization.
• Demonstrated ability with establishing, implementing, and managing multiple large-scale discipline-related programs, documents, projects, and practices for a line(s) of business.
• Excellent leadership and interpersonal communication skills with the ability to manage staff, and effectively, persuasively, and tactfully interact with employees at all levels of the organization.
• Strategic lateral thinking and strong analytical skills with attention to detail and prioritization of responsibilities in a high-pressure work environment.
• Ability to elicit cooperation from a wide variety of sources, including senior management, clients, and company-wide staff, including those with whom no formal hierarchical relationship exists. 
• Strong ability to quickly adapt to change and demonstrate flexibility to a variety of schedules and hours to meet business needs. 
• Advanced knowledge and proficiency with office automation/communication software, technology, and tools used in the corporate environment.
• 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.

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 (all locations): $175,600 - $260,000

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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