This Opportunity

tk1sc, a WSP USA company, is currently looking for a Lead Project Manager out of our Irvine, California office. As a Lead Consultant with us, you will lead a diverse group of engineers from project initiation through completion. This includes setting up and participating in regular communications and coordination with clients, managing expectations, writing, and managing proposals, creating change orders, composing budgets and invoicing.

Your Impact

• Lead teams of Engineers, Designers and other staff through completion of multiple small to medium sized projects for a common client at one time.
• Prepare project work plans, proposals, and schedules, and obtain management/client approval.
• Maintain regular communication with clients regarding project status and project 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. This involves keeping the stakeholders informed of progress and issues in order to manage expectations on all project requirements and deliverables, and meet the project schedule.
• 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 comprehensive and realistic scope of work and assist in the preparation of fee estimates.
• Provide general administrative and technical leadership for the project and maintain all project records.
• Schedule and facilitate all project meetings required to successfully coordinate work activity.
• Administer subconsultant agreements as assigned.
• Implement and manage the WSP Quality Control Plan for each project.
• Proactively track and report workload management throughout the project.
• Manage client and subconsultant invoicing.
• Manage group of Project Coordinators and Junior Project Managers.

Who You Are

Required Qualifications

• The ideal candidate has experience managing multiple projects simultaneously in an engineering consulting environment. Candidate thrives in an extremely fast-paced and ever-changing environment requiring flexibility, pivoting, and an open-minded approach.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience 
• 7-10 years of experience in Project and/or Program Management
• Experience leading multi-disciplinary teams of project professionals; concurrently managing issues, scope and quality while bringing projects to successful completion within the cost and time requirements
• Exceptional written and oral communication skills, including experience making presentations to senior management
• Exceptional interpersonal skills and the ability to work well with people from many different disciplines with varying degrees of technical experience
• Strategic, conceptual and analytical thinking and decision making skills
• Adaptability and flexibility including the ability to manage deadline pressure, and adapt to ambiguity and change
• Proficiency with computer office productivity (i.e. MS Office) and project management software tools
• Detail oriented with ability to manage multiple priorities and meet deadlines 

Preferred Qualifications

• Project or Program Management Professional certification (i.e. PMP)
• Experience in an engineering consulting environment
• Experience in project planning, cost management and schedule management, and methods of analyzing and reporting project performance on financial and other KPIs 

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): $114,000 - $169,290

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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