Assistant Vice President, Transportation Planning
Company: WSP Global Inc.
Location: Minneapolis
Posted on: October 18, 2024
Job Description:
This Opportunity
WSP USA, Inc. (WSP) is looking for an Assistant Vice President,
Transportation Planning, for our Minneapolis, MN office. We have an
immediate opening for a motivated and highly skilled transportation
planner with experience in multimodal mobility, sustainable
transportation, and transportation planning and safety studies.
This position is expected to serve as a technical expert, client
advisor, staff mentor and project manager on Minnesota and regional
projects and programs. This position will work closely with
planning, environmental, civil, and transit/rail staff across WSP
to research, analyze, document and present information related to
various types of transportation projects across the Midwest and
United States. -
Your Impact
- Provide oversight with data collection efforts for identifying
and compiling observational, spatial, and environmental data
concerning a variety of matrices for projects, research, and
surveys. -
- Ensure the appropriate use of topographic maps, aerial
photographs, GPS data, and other visualization tools to determine
exact locations of project areas, associated physical / urban /
population / economic / political sensitivities, and to uncover
primary, secondary, and tertiary impacts.
- 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 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 affecting
equitable development, construction, transportation demand
management, mobility planning, and multimodal access.
- 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 long-range planning efforts on larger-size or more complex
projects.
- Read, interpret, compose, and review Planning Reports,
Categorical Exclusions, EA's, EIRs, and other technical
documents.
- Oversee and monitor cross-functional teams in executing project
work, approval or permitting strategy, impact assessments, and
regulatory strategy, including project budgets, tracking hours and
expenses, and task completion.
- Provide high level oversite for desk-based research and site
work, 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 to 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.
Who You Are
Required Qualifications
- A minimum of 10 years of progressively responsible experience
in transportation planning and policy work.
- The successful candidate will have worked on and led projects
similar to those described above, overseeing the work of others
successfully.
- A Bachelor's Degree in Transportation Planning, Urban Planning,
Environmental Planning, Civil Engineering, Public Policy, or a
related field.
- Ability to contribute and interact well with others as well as
develop and manage high quality technical and professional
deliverables on projects and proposals. -
- Experience with project administration and project management
in the transportation sector.
- Possess strong communication skills, a high level of energy,
enthusiasm, and positive attitude
- Proficiency with the transportation project development cycle,
including from planning to implementation.
- Good computer skills, including proficiency in Microsoft Office
programs including Outlook, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint are
necessary. Experience with MicroStation and/or GIS programs is
highly desirable.
- Ability to effectively present and communicate ideas orally and
in written form and excellent writing skills are required. The
successful candidate may be requested to provide prior
samples.
- Ability to work in the United States, and possession of a valid
driver's license is required.
- Proven track record of upholding workplace safety and ability
to abide by WSP's health, safety and drug/alcohol and harassment
policies.
- Occasional travel may be required depending on project-specific
requirements. -
Preferred Qualifications -
- Master's Degree is preferred.
- Essential professional licensure/certification.
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