Deputy Project Manager - Transportation
About The Position
WSP is seeking a Deputy Project Manager for its New York City office to join the Transportation and Infrastructure Team. The role provides leadership in transit and rail engineering, technical deliverables, infrastructure projects, and programs, ensuring quality meets or exceeds industry and company standards for design, safety, and functionality. It also supports subject matter expertise, innovation, administration, and compliance with applicable local, state, and federal engineering, construction, and safety regulations. The Deputy Project Manager leads complex transportation and infrastructure projects and disciplines, overseeing project teams, budgets, schedules, hours and expenses, performance, subcontractors, and contract work. The role contributes to contract negotiations, proposals, project scopes and pricing, and provides technical and strategic guidance to clients and multidisciplinary teams. It also supports staff development, manages assigned employees, and promotes engineering quality, safety, compliance, and innovation. The expected salary range is $143,600–$205,000. WSP offers benefits including medical, dental, vision, disability, and life coverage; retirement savings; paid sick leave and vacation or personal time; paid parental leave; and paid time off for bereavement, voting, and attendance at naturalization proceedings. Occasional travel may be required depending on project requirements.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering or a closely related discipline.
- At least 10 years of relevant post-education engineering experience, including transit and rail experience and infrastructure design.
- Project management and quality management experience leading a team of quality engineers, inspectors, and assessors.
- Proficiency in transportation and infrastructure engineering principles, practices, processes, design/build, standards of care, and their application to permitting and project issues.
- Advanced proficiency in technical computations and calculations applying engineering principles, interpreting plans and specifications, and comparing them with applicable regulations.
- 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.
- Excellent leadership and interpersonal communication skills, including the ability to interact effectively, persuasively, and tactfully with employees at all organizational levels.
- Tactical lateral thinking, strong analytical skills, attention to detail, and ability to prioritize in a high-pressure work environment.
- Ability to elicit cooperation from senior management, clients, regulators, and company-wide staff, including people outside formal reporting relationships.
- Proficiency with office automation, discipline-specific design software, technology, math principles, predictive models, spreadsheets, and tools.
- Proven record of upholding workplace safety and ability to comply with WSP health, safety, drug/alcohol, and harassment policies.
- Ability to adapt quickly to change and demonstrate flexibility with schedules and hours to meet business needs.
Nice To Haves
- Master’s degree in engineering.
- Engineer license; multistate licensure preferred.
- Strong experience managing the review and approval of documents and discipline-specific deliverables, certifications, processes, and plans in a multi-project environment.
- Occasional travel may be required depending on project-specific requirements.
Responsibilities
- Provide proactive and strategic leadership for transportation and infrastructure engineering disciplines and functions.
- Lead complex projects, clarify contributor responsibilities and deadlines, oversee budgets, monitor external events, track hours and expenses, assess performance, and supervise subcontractors, contract work, and employees.
- Lead technical aspects of contract negotiations, presentations, and meetings.
- Be responsible for project profitability and successful completion within the specified area.
- Develop and continuously improve engineering discipline certifications, accreditations, and value proposition.
- Conduct needs analyses and client value surveys, aligning engineering functions with business and project strategy and identifying skill gaps or operational risks.
- Schedule engineering discipline meetings and provide updates and recommendations to integrate discipline expertise and innovation into project work.
- Develop and inform proposal and project scopes, timelines, pricing, and budget metrics; plan, develop, and manage projects in compliance with applicable codes, regulations, and engineering practices.
- Interpret and summarize data, reports, and documents to reach engineering and regulatory conclusions.
- Provide verbal and written input to multidisciplinary project teams and contribute strategic advice to clients.
- Mentor staff and support their professional development.
- Manage assigned staff and provide performance guidance and leadership.
- Stay current on transit and rail engineering techniques and practices.
- Collaborate across disciplines to provide trusted-advisor service and future-ready client solutions.
- Make responsible and ethical decisions regarding company funds, resources, and conduct, and follow WSP’s Code of Conduct and related policies.
- Perform additional responsibilities as required by business needs.
Benefits
- Medical coverage
- Dental coverage
- Vision coverage
- Disability coverage
- Life insurance coverage
- Retirement savings
- Paid sick leave
- Paid vacation or other personal time
- Paid parental leave
- Paid time off for bereavement, voting, and attendance at naturalization proceedings
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
