Alternative Delivery Senior Project Manager

About the role

This Opportunity WSP is currently initiating a search for an Alternative Delivery Senior Project Manager (ADSPM) to support our growing team. This position may be based in any WSP office, with a primary location focused in Utah and the Mountain Region.

Responsibilities

• Manage an alternative delivery project through teaming, pre-award, post-award, and closeout, with responsibility for coordination, scope, schedule, budget, quality, and risk.
• Serve as a senior point of coordination for contractor clients, subconsultants, and internal teams, promoting clear communication, timely decision-making, executive alignment, and strong working relationships on alternative delivery projects.
• Support business development and capture activities, including teaming coordination, pursuit planning, proposal and fee development, scope definition, procurement responses, and interview preparation.
• Develop, maintain, and monitor project management plans, work plans, schedules, budgets, and risk registers, implementing corrective actions as needed to support performance.
• Lead multidisciplinary technical teams and delivery reviews to ensure alignment with project requirements, contractual obligations, commercial objectives, and quality expectations.
• Lead project phase transitions and closeout activities to maintain continuity, documentation quality, and alignment with business and client objectives.
• Lead lessons learned and after-action reviews, and contribute to the improvement of alternative delivery tools, templates, standard operating procedures, and best practices.
• Participate in relevant industry organizations and events related to alternative delivery and support strategic initiatives as directed by leadership.
• Adhere to all internal processes, ethical standards, and company policies, and perform additional responsibilities as required by business needs.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in civil engineering.
• Professional Engineer (PE) registration required.
• 15+ years of progressive experience managing alternative delivery projects.
• Demonstrated success leading pre-award and post-award project execution.
• Proven ability to lead multidisciplinary teams and engage effectively with clients, partners, senior leadership, and internal stakeholders.
• Demonstrated ability to support business development and account management through contractor relationship management, early opportunity identification, and alternative delivery pipeline coordination.
• Strong command of scope, schedule, budget, quality, and risk management.
• Excellent communication, organizational, and problem-solving skills.
• Knowledge of design-build, progressive design-build, and/or P3 delivery models.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office and project collaboration tools.
• Commitment to workplace safety, quality, and compliance standards.

Qualifications

• The ideal candidate is a seasoned project leader with extensive experience delivering alternative delivery projects in a lead designer role.
• You bring demonstrated success across key phases of design-build, progressive design-build, and/or P3 delivery and are confident leading multidisciplinary teams, managing project controls, and partnering effectively with contractors, concessionaires, clients, and internal leadership.
• You combine strong execution discipline with executive-level communication, sound judgment, and the ability to advance project performance from procurement through closeout.
• You also bring the relationship management and market awareness needed to support business development and account management, including contractor engagement, early opportunity identification, and contribution to regional pipeline planning.

Skills

• Experience supporting alternative delivery pursuits throughout the US, as well as in Utah.
• Established relationships with contractors, concessionaires, and public-sector clients in the alternative delivery market.
• Experience contributing to capture strategy, procurement responses, and interview preparation.
• Demonstrated ability to support regional pipeline planning and strategic growth initiatives.

Benefits

WSP USA is the U.S. operating company of WSP, one of the world's leading engineering and professional services firms. Dedicated to serving local communities, we are engineers, planners, technical experts, strategic advisors and construction management professionals. WSP USA designs 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., we partner with our clients to help communities prosper.

Pay

Details on pay will be provided during the interview process.

Schedule

Details on schedule will be provided during the interview process.

Contact Information

If you are ready to get started, please visit our website at www.wsp.com. For inquiries about this opportunity, please contact [Contact Information].

Equal Opportunity Employer

WSP USA (and all of its U.S. companies) is an Equal Opportunity Employer Race/Age/Color/Religion/Sex/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity/National Origin/Disability or Protected Veteran Status. The selected candidate must be authorized to work in the United States.

Notice to Third Party Agencies

We do not accept unsolicited resumes from recruiters, employment agencies, or other staffing services. Unsolicited resumes include any resume or hiring document sent to WSP in the absence of a signed Service Agreement where WSP has expressly requested recruitment/staffing services specific to the position at hand. Any unsolicited resumes, including those submitted to hiring managers or other business leaders, will become the property of WSP and WSP will have the right to hire that candidate without reservation – no fee or other compensation will be owed or paid to the recruiter, employment agency, or other staffing service.