Senior Vice President - Transportation Facilities ...

WSP USA seeks a Senior Vice President u2013 Transportation Facilities Leader in our California Region with facility-related project experience in the transportation sector, focused on airports, container ports, highways, rail/transit projects, and similar programs. This position is an exciting opportunity for a candidate to join a dynamic office team with experienced professionals in a leadership role and build a team of professionals to capture and expand WSP's market share in this sector. Transit-oriented clients continue to seek innovative and creative ways to decarbonize their buildings and infrastructure. WSP bring a wide range of services and talented indications to answer these challenges. Come join our team and grow your career using your skills and experience to prepare our transportation clients for the next 100 years of innovation. The position is based in WSP's Los Angeles, CA office. To respond to this growth, WSPu2019s Property and Building Business has an opportunity for a Transportation Sector Leader to join our teams in California Region and beyond. This is a growth position for motivated candidates looking to expand their influence in the building industry. As a Senior Vice President u2013 Transportation Sector Leader, you will have the opportunity to develop and grow relationships in the transit market, develop strategy, lead pursuits, and multidiscipline engineering teams. This position is an exciting opportunity for a candidate to join our California team of experienced professionals in a leadership role and grow a team focused on transportation-based Clients, including collaboration with our Transportation and Infrastructure business line. Your Impact 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 u2022 Drives the performance of the facility-based transportation-focused business and strategically grows our market share to fulfill our goal of making WSP our clients' preferred, trusted advisor. u2022 Manages local client coordination and cross-selling efforts in coordination with Region, District, National Business Lines, and Pursuit Management. u2022 Represent the firm in the facility-specific transportation market through regular involvement in client and industry events and associations to promote intelligence gathering and pipeline development. u2022 Brings an expanded view and integrated response to complex challenges by leveraging our full suite of offerings across all end markets. u2022 Utilizes our extended reach of technical and subject matter experts (SMEs) across regions, districts, offices, and the globe to foster new and innovative client delivery. People & Culture u2022 Works with the District Business Line Leader to attract the best industry talent by fostering a collaborative work environment, values inclusion and diversity, and invites broad, creative thinking u2013 crafting a more attractive place to work, grow, and thrive. u2022 Emphasizes employee training and development to create a unique work experience. u2022 Inspires, motivates, and promotes the best of WSP to our clients and communities to ensure strong employee engagement and morale. u2022 Supports programs such as Safety, Sustainability, and Ethics & Compliance Operational Excellence u2022 Optimizes the client and employee experience through regular reviews while embracing process improvement. u2022 Focuses on innovation and collaboration while maintaining and improving quality. u2022 Develop local growth, forecast, and business development strategy in collaboration with District, Region, and National Business Line Leaders. u2022 Resolves conflict and other internal/external issues that may arise in the office, amongst WSP's client base, or on projects. u2022 Collaborates with regional, district leaders and other area leaders to strategically drive the business, assess and suggest improvements for project performance, oversee overhead expenditures, and focus on Key Performance Indicators (KPIs): Sales, Funding, EBITDA, Staff Hiring and Retention, DSO, Utilization, Backlog, Inclusion & Diversity, and Guiding Principles. Expertise u2022 Leverages our broad technical experience to enhance current and new service offerings. u2022 Fosters the development of new and emerging innovations to remain the trusted thought leaders in our industry. u2022 Advances the region's strategic direction in the location of responsibility for sustained and continued growth consistent within the context of the strategic plan. + Encourages, supports, and promotes the technical and professional development of local WSP staff. Who You Are Required Qualifications + Bachelor's Degree in a Mechanical Engineer or relevant engineering field. + 15+ years of experience in the Transportation Industry, focusing on a combination of any of the following: Engineering Management, Business Development, and Business and Operations Management. + Professional registration or certification. + Demonstrated experience in starting and rapidly growing a team of professionals to capture market share in a sector that is not a current strength in the region. + Demonstrated balanced, solid management/leadership skills, including leading and developing staff. + The ability to develop strong, established local client relationships and industry contacts. + Demonstrated sound decision-making, strategic and visionary thinking, and creative business development capabilities across a multi-disciplined practice. + Ability to effectively manage large groups of engineering staff. + Proficient writing, verbal, and presentation skills. + 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 in a relevant field. WSP Benefits: WSP provides a comprehensive suite of benefits focused on a providing health and financial stability throughout the employeeu2019s 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): $194,900 - $310,860 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 applicantu2019s 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 applicantu2019s sex or other status protected by local, state, and/or federal law. #LI-JM1 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. 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 employeeu2019s 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 u2013 no fee or other compensation will be owed or paid to the recruiter, employment agency, or other staffing service.

Created: 2026-03-07