WSP in the U.S.
Assistant Vice President, Project Manager (Mission Critical/Data Centers)
WSP in the U.S., Atlanta, Georgia, United States, 30383
Assistant Vice President, Project Manager (Mission Critical/Data Centers)
Location: Tempe, AZ; Atlanta, GA; Milwaukee, WI; Herndon, VA; Troy, NY
Job Description kW Mission Critical Engineering, a WSP company, is a high‑performance, fast‑paced consulting engineering firm designing data centers and mission critical environments across the globe. We hire smart, responsive, team players to work in collaborative and mentoring office settings. Our mechanical, electrical, plumbing, fire protection, controls, telecommunications, and security building system designs keep many of the world’s top Fortune 100 financial, technology, enterprise, hyperscale, and colocation companies up and running 24/7.
We work on innovative, award‑winning, large‑scale projects. We travel to construction sites to see our designs being built. As part of WSP, we are able to offer our employees increased professional development and career opportunities in addition to kW MCE’s office culture which is consistently recognized as one of the “Best Places to Work.” Join our great people in great places designing great projects.
Opportunity kW Mission Critical Engineering is looking for an Assistant Vice President, Project Manager to lead a diverse group of engineers from project initiation through completion with minimal oversight. This includes regular communications and coordination with clients, managing expectations, writing and managing proposals, creating change orders, composing budgets, invoicing and project closeout.
Your Impact
Lead multidisciplinary teams of engineers, designers and other staff through completion of multiple simultaneous projects ranging from small to large with a wide range of complexities and requirements.
Independently prepare project work plans, proposals, and schedules, and obtain management/client approval.
Lead and initiate regular communications with clients regarding project status and quality, and proactively resolve issues.
Manage relationships with project stakeholders, including internal and external clients and vendors, regulatory authorities and technical agencies, and the public.
Address change management matters promptly and professionally with clients and internal departments.
Maintain awareness of project budget maintenance, key performance indicators and forecasting.
Lead and manage business development initiatives including Requests for Qualifications and Requests for Proposals.
Compile a comprehensive and realistic scope of work, and prepare a complete and accurate fee estimate.
Provide mentoring, assistance, encouragement and motivation to team members and junior Project Managers.
Provide strong administrative and technical leadership for the project and maintain all project records and monitor correspondence.
Schedule and facilitate all project meetings required to successfully coordinate work activity.
Administer subconsultant agreements as assigned; have thorough knowledge of the company’s contracts.
Implement and manage the kW Quality Control Plan for each project.
Proactively track and report workload management throughout the project.
Manage client and subconsultant invoicing.
Who You Are The ideal candidate has experience managing multiple projects simultaneously in an engineering consulting environment. Candidates thrive in an extremely fast‑paced and ever‑changing environment requiring flexibility, pivoting, and an open‑minded approach and have experience working in a client‑facing role requiring extensive communication and knowledge of costing, budgets, and scheduling and/or resourcing.
Required Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree.
10+ years of experience in Project and/or Program Management and experience on large engineering and/or construction projects.
Experience leading multidisciplinary teams of project professionals; concurrently managing issues, scope and quality while bringing projects to successful completion within cost and time requirements.
Exceptional written and oral communication skills, including experience making presentations to senior management.
Exceptional interpersonal skills.
Ability to work well with people from many different disciplines with varying degrees of technical experience.
Clear, concise, and tactful communication with senior management, clients, peers and staff.
Strategic, conceptual analytical thinking and decision‑making skills.
Adaptability and flexibility including the ability to manage deadline pressure, ambiguity and change.
Experience negotiating contract terms.
Proficiency with computer office productivity (e.g., MS Office) and project management software tools.
Detail oriented with ability to manage multiple priorities and meet deadlines.
Familiarity reading drawings and specifications.
Preferred Qualifications
Project or Program Management Professional certification (e.g., PMP).
Experience in an engineering consulting environment.
Bachelor’s degree in engineering, construction management, project management.
Experience in project planning, cost management and schedule management, and methods of analyzing and reporting project performance on financial and other KPIs.
Benefits WSP provides a comprehensive suite of benefits focused on 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; paid parental leave; and paid time off for purposes of bereavement, voting, and/or attendance at naturalization proceedings.
Compensation Expected Salary (all locations): $155,000 – $194,000
WSP USA provides 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.
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 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?
Equal Opportunity 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. Any unsolicited resumes 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.
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Job Description kW Mission Critical Engineering, a WSP company, is a high‑performance, fast‑paced consulting engineering firm designing data centers and mission critical environments across the globe. We hire smart, responsive, team players to work in collaborative and mentoring office settings. Our mechanical, electrical, plumbing, fire protection, controls, telecommunications, and security building system designs keep many of the world’s top Fortune 100 financial, technology, enterprise, hyperscale, and colocation companies up and running 24/7.
We work on innovative, award‑winning, large‑scale projects. We travel to construction sites to see our designs being built. As part of WSP, we are able to offer our employees increased professional development and career opportunities in addition to kW MCE’s office culture which is consistently recognized as one of the “Best Places to Work.” Join our great people in great places designing great projects.
Opportunity kW Mission Critical Engineering is looking for an Assistant Vice President, Project Manager to lead a diverse group of engineers from project initiation through completion with minimal oversight. This includes regular communications and coordination with clients, managing expectations, writing and managing proposals, creating change orders, composing budgets, invoicing and project closeout.
Your Impact
Lead multidisciplinary teams of engineers, designers and other staff through completion of multiple simultaneous projects ranging from small to large with a wide range of complexities and requirements.
Independently prepare project work plans, proposals, and schedules, and obtain management/client approval.
Lead and initiate regular communications with clients regarding project status and quality, and proactively resolve issues.
Manage relationships with project stakeholders, including internal and external clients and vendors, regulatory authorities and technical agencies, and the public.
Address change management matters promptly and professionally with clients and internal departments.
Maintain awareness of project budget maintenance, key performance indicators and forecasting.
Lead and manage business development initiatives including Requests for Qualifications and Requests for Proposals.
Compile a comprehensive and realistic scope of work, and prepare a complete and accurate fee estimate.
Provide mentoring, assistance, encouragement and motivation to team members and junior Project Managers.
Provide strong administrative and technical leadership for the project and maintain all project records and monitor correspondence.
Schedule and facilitate all project meetings required to successfully coordinate work activity.
Administer subconsultant agreements as assigned; have thorough knowledge of the company’s contracts.
Implement and manage the kW Quality Control Plan for each project.
Proactively track and report workload management throughout the project.
Manage client and subconsultant invoicing.
Who You Are The ideal candidate has experience managing multiple projects simultaneously in an engineering consulting environment. Candidates thrive in an extremely fast‑paced and ever‑changing environment requiring flexibility, pivoting, and an open‑minded approach and have experience working in a client‑facing role requiring extensive communication and knowledge of costing, budgets, and scheduling and/or resourcing.
Required Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree.
10+ years of experience in Project and/or Program Management and experience on large engineering and/or construction projects.
Experience leading multidisciplinary teams of project professionals; concurrently managing issues, scope and quality while bringing projects to successful completion within cost and time requirements.
Exceptional written and oral communication skills, including experience making presentations to senior management.
Exceptional interpersonal skills.
Ability to work well with people from many different disciplines with varying degrees of technical experience.
Clear, concise, and tactful communication with senior management, clients, peers and staff.
Strategic, conceptual analytical thinking and decision‑making skills.
Adaptability and flexibility including the ability to manage deadline pressure, ambiguity and change.
Experience negotiating contract terms.
Proficiency with computer office productivity (e.g., MS Office) and project management software tools.
Detail oriented with ability to manage multiple priorities and meet deadlines.
Familiarity reading drawings and specifications.
Preferred Qualifications
Project or Program Management Professional certification (e.g., PMP).
Experience in an engineering consulting environment.
Bachelor’s degree in engineering, construction management, project management.
Experience in project planning, cost management and schedule management, and methods of analyzing and reporting project performance on financial and other KPIs.
Benefits WSP provides a comprehensive suite of benefits focused on 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; paid parental leave; and paid time off for purposes of bereavement, voting, and/or attendance at naturalization proceedings.
Compensation Expected Salary (all locations): $155,000 – $194,000
WSP USA provides 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.
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 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?
Equal Opportunity 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. Any unsolicited resumes 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.
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