Senior Civil Highway Project Manager

Senior Civil Highway Project Manager

WSP is growing its Minneapolis, MN office and is seeking a highly experienced and motivated candidate for our Senior Civil Highway Project Manager position. This position will be critical to delivering infrastructure solutions across Minnesota, with a focus on Minnesota county and Minnesota Department of Transportation (MnDOT) projects, while ensuring technical excellence and high-quality deliverables. This individual will join our Transportation & Infrastructure Group, lead client care and pursuits for county projects, provide technical expertise for MnDOT project pursuits, and lead and mentor staff.

Your Impact

People and Culture

• Support and mentor local staff, emphasizing Minnesota standards, career development, and advancement of technical skills.
• Collaborate with engineers, planners, other professionals, and infrastructure authorities on federally, state-, regionally, and locally funded improvement projects.
• Develop a personal network and pursue proposal and business development opportunities.
• Interact effectively with others to develop high-quality technical and professional deliverables for projects and proposals.
• Inspire, motivate, and promote the best of WSP to our clients and communities, ensuring strong engagement and team morale.

Clients

• Participate in client engagement, build a personal network for yourself and WSP staff, and lead assigned client care programs.
• Drive the performance of the business to strategically grow our market share and ensure WSP is a preferred provider of engineering services.
• Determine client requirements and lead and contribute to the development of proposals, scopes, schedules, and budgets.
• Identify cross-business-line opportunities through discussions with industry partners and clients, focusing on Minnesota counties.

Expertise

• Lead the identification of potential projects by maintaining familiarity with multiple county capital improvement programs (CIPs) and positioning WSP for future requests for proposals (RFPs).
• Collaborate with WSP's marketing team to deliver high-quality proposals for a variety of work types.
• Apply advanced civil engineering techniques and processes to identify improvements throughout complex infrastructure and transportation projects, including concept development, preliminary design, final design, procurement, construction, and operations.
• Manage design projects, studies, and tasks.
• Lead the preparation of preliminary and final design plans, cost estimates, and special provisions while developing staff capabilities in these areas.
• Work independently with minimal oversight and provide guidance and leadership to junior team or project members, with strict adherence to QA/QC procedures.
• Demonstrate a high level of self-leadership, with attention to detail and the ability to multitask and prioritize responsibilities.

Operational Excellence

• Lead small- and large-scale civil engineering projects by ensuring contributors understand their responsibilities and deadlines; preparing and overseeing project budgets; monitoring external events; tracking hours and expenses; ensuring satisfactory performance; and supervising subcontractors, contract work, and employees.
• Promote excellence and innovation in delivering high-quality technical products.
• Promote a commitment to improving and maintaining technical excellence.
• Provide leadership in technical and professional project activities.
• Foster innovation that helps clients view WSP as a trusted industry leader.
• Demonstrate a strong commitment to technical excellence and QA/QC procedures.
• 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.

Who You Are

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in civil engineering.
• 15+ years of post-education experience in engineering and civil design.
• A minimum of 10 years of verifiable professional project management experience.
• Professional Engineer registration in the State of Minnesota or the ability to obtain registration within six months.
• Proven experience with Minnesota county and MnDOT projects.
• Background in Bentley OpenRoads Designer software.
• Ability to think strategically and creatively and develop approaches to challenging projects.
• Highly effective interpersonal and communication skills, including the ability to express intricate ideas clearly and professionally to engineering and non-engineering audiences.
• Strong self-leadership and interpersonal communication skills, with the ability to interact effectively, persuasively, and tactfully with clients, regulators, project managers, and employees at all levels of the organization.
• Ability to work independently and provide guidance and leadership to mid- and senior-level team or project members, with strict adherence to QA/QC procedures.

Preferred Qualifications

• Active membership in a local professional organization.
• Experience leading design teams on multidisciplinary projects, including subconsultant oversight.
• Experience with infrastructure planning and design, corridor studies, and rehabilitation projects.
• Knowledge of relevant county, MnDOT, and State Aid design criteria, specifications, codes, regulations, compliance practices, submittal procedures, and recordkeeping requirements.
• Extensive experience with local county transportation and MnDOT projects.
• Well-established client relationships and industry contacts, including counties, MnDOT, and business partners in the Minnesota marketplace.
• Sound decision-making, strategic and visionary thinking, and creative business development capabilities.