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WSP in the U.S.

Lead Consultant, Advisory Services

WSP in the U.S., Seattle, Washington, us, 98127

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Lead Consultant, Advisory Services

Location Seattle, WA

Overview The WSP US Advisory practice is dedicated to transforming the business of infrastructure across the transportation, buildings, energy, water, environment, and power sectors. We provide our clients with strategic planning, organizational development, economic and financial analysis, and project development and delivery services supported by WSP's engineering expertise in all infrastructure markets.

Responsibilities

Support Advisory Services projects within the company, ensuring project management, budget, work product, quality control and financial performance meet company standard

Develop high quality technical and professional deliverables on projects and proposals

Directs and oversees tasks for deliverable on projects and provides guidance to junior staff

Perform complex qualitative and quantitative analysis

Leads client meetings and develop trusted relationships

Ability to evaluate current state across people, processes and ideally technology.

Recommend data driven improvements to achieve future state.

Develop and drive to completion action-oriented improvement roadmaps.

Translate client concerns into actionable scopes, sequences of activities and associated deliverables.

Familiarity with industry standard practices, business process mapping notation and methodologies.

Understanding of capital delivery processes, particularly in a transit and rail, roadways and/or power industry context. This would include moving through planning, design, procurement, construction, handover to operations.

Navigate ambiguous environments and complex conversations with clients and leadership to define scope and keep the project on track.

Ability to manage project and project team, including time management and working to deadlines.

Ability to work in a matrixed environment and experience with influencing without authority.

Manages scope, schedule and budget for smaller projects

Contribute to thought leadership and subject matter collateral development

Keeps up-to-date with technical knowledge of current and emerging practices

Seek opportunities to serve as mentor to junior staff

Lead or significantly contribute to proposal preparation and marketing activities

Proactively identify technical issues and take actions to mitigate risk

Adhere to WSP's Code of Conduct and related policies and procedures.

Required Qualifications

Bachelor’s Degree in a relevant field.

Experience in designing and implementing process improvement practices.

7 to 10 years of directly relevant experience, particularly capital delivery for transit and rail, roadways and/or power industry.

Proven experience in consulting or a comparable role in developing organizational capability and performance improvement from within an organization.

Strong written and oral communication skills.

Strong interpersonal skills and high emotional intelligence.

Hands‑on leader, collaborator, individual contributor and strong team player, depending on context.

Selected candidate must be authorized to work in the United States.

Preferred Qualifications

Understanding of government agency operations.

Familiarity with technological solutions and tools that support automation and decision making within the public works environment.

Project Management Professional (PMP).

Lean Six‑Sigma certification (or similar).

Prosci certification (or similar).

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 Salaryall locations): $102,000 - $181,720. WSP USA reserves the right to 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.

Seniority Level

Mid‑Senior level

Employment Type

Full‑time

Job Function

Consulting, Information Technology, and Sales

Industries

Professional Services

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.

Equal Opportunity Employer 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.

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