Senior Technical Manager

WSP • Austin, TX

6h • Onsite

About The Position

WSP is searching for a Senior Technical Manager for their Austin, TX office, to join the Advisory Services, Demand Modeling and Forecasting team. This role involves participating in regional and national projects across transportation, water, environment, and other industries. The manager will apply rigorous data science and demand modeling principles to offer insights that help shape public policy and programs, work in a supportive team environment with diverse, talented peers, and create solutions to help transform cities and communities. WSP USA is the U.S. operating company of WSP, one of the world's leading engineering and professional services firms. They are engineers, planners, technical experts, strategic advisors, and construction management professionals, designing 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., WSP partners with clients to help communities prosper. WSP provides a flexible and agile workplace model while meeting client needs and aims to give employees challenges to grow their careers and knowledge base.

Requirements

• Master's Degree or Higher in Transportation Engineering, Civil Engineering, Data Science, Urban Planning, Economics, Geography or related field
• 10 years' proven experience managing travel demand modeling teams and projects
• 10 years of experience designing, estimating and/or implementing travel demand models
• Ability to deliver model results in written or oral format to clients and peer review panels
• Demonstrated expertise with travel model software scripting
• Demonstrated expertise with travel data analysis and visualization
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• 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
• Proven track record of upholding workplace safety and ability to abide by WSP’s health, safety and drug/alcohol and harassment policies

Nice To Haves

• Experience writing proposals and managing client accounts
• Proficiency with demand modeling software (TransCAD, CUBE, EMME, and/or VISUM)
• Proficiency with R scripting, Java, C#, or similar programming languages
• Proficiency with Geographical Information Software use and programming

Responsibilities

• Design, estimate, validate and apply travel demand models
• Lead and collaborate on the development of demand modeling and related software
• Analyze land use and demand data
• Conduct statistical analyses of travel survey and passively-collected transportation data
• Mentor, train and provide technical guidance to staff
• Lead demand modeling tasks as part of multidisciplinary teams
• Manage travel demand projects
• Lead data analysis for grant applications, demand modeling and planning projects
• Lead business development activities
• Participate in internal and external professional development activities

Benefits

• coverage related to medical
• dental
• vision
• disability
• life
• retirement savings
• paid sick leave
• paid vacation (or other personal time)
• paid parental leave
• paid time off for purposes of bereavement, voting, and/or attendance at naturalization proceedings
• flexible and agile workplace model

What This Job Offers

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