Lead Consultant, Advisory Services

WSP • Seattle, WA

53d

About The Position

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 the full range of strategic planning, organizational development, economic and financial analysis and project development and delivery services supported by WSP's engineering expertise in all infrastructure markets.

With changing economic conditions, evolving government priorities, aging assets and emerging technologies, clients rely on the Advisory Services team for its unique combination of infrastructure delivery expertise and management consulting leadership. We help clients develop, procure, manage, finance and invest in infrastructure assets to successfully deliver programs and projects.

We are looking for a motivated individual to join our Business Transformation service area. This individual will join a group of trusted advisors in delivering business and operational solutions while helping to shape the future growth of the nation’s built environment. WSP is currently initiating a search for a Lead Consultant, Advisory Services. This position is located in Seattle, WA.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in relevant field.
• Experience in designing and implementing process improvement practices.
• 7 to 10 years of directly relevant , 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

Nice To Haves

• Proven experience in consulting or a comparable role in developing organizational capability, performance improvement and/or process improvement from within an organization
• 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)

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.

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.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees