Assistant Vice President, Transportation Planning

WSP•Boston, MA

7d•Onsite

About The Position

This Opportunity is for a locally based Assistant Vice President, Transportation Planning who provides technical planning support and leadership for the WSP New England Planning team in helping win and deliver planning projects across the transportation, environmental, regional, and urban planning disciplines. A successful candidate in this role will have a working knowledge of consultant capture planning processes, experience in proactively engaging clients about potential work, and a strong grounding in typical planning processes and project development. Past planning experience can range from transportation, environmental, regional, and/or urban planning, or similar experience. This position will be a leadership position helping the Senior Vice President of New England Planning manage a growing team of 7 to 10 people, being a guide and mentor in coordinating capture planning for projects across the New England Planning team and demonstrating by example strong proposal development skills. This position will also be expected to support projects at various levels as subject matter expert, a project manager, task lead, or any other needs as available. In these roles, they will be responsible to ensure planning-related project elements and processes are conveyed and acted upon with a high level of quality and compliance to accurately address impact, long-term risks, and future ready solutions by applying and integrating transportation, environmental, urban, and regional planning. Responsible for providing situational guidance to project managers and managers ensuring that responsibilities are delivered and adhered to with a level of quality that meets or exceeds acceptable industry standards.

Requirements

Bachelor’s Degree in Transportation Planning, Regional Planning, Urban Planning, Environmental Planning, or a related field (or equivalent experience.)
10+ years of experience working in the planning field, actively engaging in projects or pursuit development across any discipline related to Transportation, Environmental, Regional, and/or Urban planning.
Must be located in New England and will be expected to regularly come into the Boston Office at 100 Summer St.
Advanced proficiency with the capital project development cycle; including from planning to implementation.
Highly proficient with reviewing capital projects and program cost estimates and assessing project readiness for inclusion in the strategic local/regional plans.
Demonstrated proficiency with planning in the fields of Transportation, Environmental, Regional, and/or Urban planning.
Knowledge and expertise with relevant approval processes, laws, requirements, notification and compliance practices, and applicable Regional/State/Federal regulatory frameworks.
Advanced expertise with consulting practices, and established experience coordinating with clients, regulatory agencies, subcontractors, and technical staff required.
Ability to work independently and provide guidance and leadership to mid-level to senior level team or project members, with strict adherence to QA/QC.
Experienced with providing critical reviews for documents and preparing technical deliverables and plans with a high degree of complexity.
Strong self-leadership and interpersonal communication skills with the ability to effectively, persuasively, and tactfully interact with employees at all levels of the organization.
Experience with discipline-specific software (i.e., CAD, ArcGIS, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Creative Suite, Sketch-Up).
Proficiency with technical business writing, office automation and communication software, technology, and tools.
Extensive critical thinking and problem-solving skills required to reach conclusions from testing results, data collation, and identify the most effective solutions to accomplish objectives of assigned projects.
Proven track record of upholding workplace safety and ability to abide by WSP’s health, safety and drug/alcohol and harassment policies.
Must be flexible to a variety of schedules to meet business needs and able to prioritize responsibilities and quickly adapt to change in a pressure work environment.
Occasional travel may be required depending on project-specific requirements.

Nice To Haves

Master’s Degree is preferred.
Essential professional licensure/certification.

Responsibilities

Identify and position for project opportunities early to create a winning strategy for the award of work for the New England Planning team.
Mentor a team in best practices for developing winning proposals and provide support and review in helping our team members draft winning proposals.
Collaborate across WSP business lines to identify project opportunities and potential work on existing projects or contracts, including collaboration with Transportation & Infrastructure, Earth and Environment, Property & Buildings, Energy, and other groups within Advisory and Planning.
Provide oversight of data collection efforts for identifying and compiling observational, spatial, and data concerning a variety of matrices for projects, research, and surveys.
Prepare, complete, and/or review general plans, specific/master plans, community plans, zoning codes, comprehensive plans, permitting policies and/or development standards for assigned projects, with a particular emphasis on transportation and multimodal accommodation. Ensure technical reports and presentations explain research, findings, and recommendations to plan, address, prevent, control, or restore larger-scale planning challenges and complex problems.
Perform professional transportation, environmental, regional, and/or urban planning work and conduct investigations, inspections, studies, and surveys to gain further information on a particular problem or issue, verify site characteristics, and/or to plan for future needs.
Prepare data and visualizations such as tables, charts, reports, models, infographics, cross-sections, and 3D illustrations for the interpretation or presentation of more complex and larger scale data, findings, or analyses.
Prepare applications and represent clients in the approval process with local and regional jurisdictions.
Prepare, coordinate, and facilitate public involvement and consensus-building meetings in support of client project work, answering public questions on behalf of the client, and assisting with planning efforts on larger-size or more complex projects.
Read, interpret, compose, and review planning reports, studies, and other technical documents.
Oversee and monitor cross-functional teams in executing project work, including project budgets, tracking hours and expenses, and task completion.
Provide high level oversite for desk-based and on-site study efforts, including measurements, data interpretation, demographics, patterns and trends, and computer modeling.
Provide analysis, evaluation, and interpretation of facts and data obtained during field and site investigations, offering input with developing action plans for more significant to high-level challenges and development activities to minimize impacts on the community, population, local economy, and environment.
Coordinate with clients, resource agencies, and planning and technical staff, providing a high level of strategic advice, consultancy, and subject matter expertise.
Develop a client base for providing high level transportation planning services including identifying additional business development opportunities and engaging in proposal writing and submission.
Mentor staff to support their growth and professional development.
Collaborate with professionals from a variety of disciplines to provide future ready solutions for clients.
Remain current in latest transportation planning subject matter, practices, regulations, and techniques.
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.

Benefits

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 employee’s career.

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