Assistant Vice President, Architect

About the role

The Assistant Vice President, Architect position is available in WSP's New York City office. This role involves projects with the Transportation Facilities Group and is part of a growing organization that works with clients to meet their transportation challenges.

Responsibilities

• Effective leadership, bringing teams together to develop solutions that meet project needs and goals.
• Developing and assembling design teams, including visioning project approaches.
• Applying high-level architectural techniques and processes to improve various construction project phases, including concept development, preliminary design, final design, procurement, construction, and operation.
• Conducting investigations and inspections of proposed and existing site conditions, resources, buildings, facilities, transportation channels, and operations to ensure compliance with applicable rules, standards, and construction or operating permits.
• Overseeing the development and implementation of advanced technologies, building materials, modeling techniques, design requirements, and operating strategies to ensure safety and functionality of occupants and end-users, implementing future-ready solutions with architectural design standards.
• Leading larger-scale architecture projects, ensuring contributors understand their roles and deadlines, preparing and overseeing relevant project budgets, monitoring external events, tracking hours and expenses, ensuring satisfactory performance, and supervising subcontractors, contract work, and employees.
• Reviewing and approving permit applications, design plans and specifications, integrated management plans, and periodic construction inspections to ensure compliance with applicable state and/or federal regulations and sound architectural practice and standards.
• Mentoring staff to support their growth and professional development.
• Strong communication skills, including verbal and written, capable of coordinating and discussing project status with New York City office Senior Management.
• Exercising responsible and ethical decision-making regarding company funds, resources, and conduct, adhering to WSP’s Code of Conduct and related policies and procedures.
• Performing additional responsibilities as required by business needs.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Architecture with a focus in facility type experience.
• 10+ years of relevant post-education experience in learned discipline.
• Professional licensure (Registered Architect in NY).
• Highly proficient with architectural principles, practices, process, design/build, and the application to project work-related issues.
• Strong creative, visualization, and technical drawing skills.
• Strong knowledge of relevant construction laws, state and city building codes, regulations, compliance practices, and record-keeping requirements.
• Highly proficient with making technical computations and calculations involving the application of architectural principles, understanding plans and specifications, and making factual comparisons and illustrations to the appropriate regulations.
• Experience with planning and conducting inspections and investigations on various aspects of the construction and design of buildings, facilities, or structures, applying applicable regulations and policies.
• Thorough understanding of project management tools including scheduling, budgeting, risks registers.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills when interacting with others, expressing intricate ideas effectively and professionally to a technical and non-technical audience.
• Strong self-leadership and interpersonal communication skills with the ability to effectively, persuasively, and tactfully interact with clients, regulators, project managers, and employees at all levels of the organization.
• Demonstrated effectiveness at coordinating and assertively directing subcontractors and others to consistently complete tasks safely and efficiently.
• Proven track record of upholding workplace safety and ability to abide by WSP’s health, safety and drug/alcohol and harassment policies.
• Flexible to a variety of schedules to meet business needs and able to prioritize responsibilities and quickly adapt to change in a pressure work environment.

Qualifications

• Thorough understanding of project management tools including scheduling, budgeting, risks registers.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills when interacting with others, expressing intricate ideas effectively and professionally to a technical and non-technical audience.
• Strong self-leadership and interpersonal communication skills with the ability to effectively, persuasively, and tactfully interact with clients, regulators, project managers, and employees at all levels of the organization.
• Demonstrated effectiveness at coordinating and assertively directing subcontractors and others to consistently complete tasks safely and efficiently.
• Proven track record of upholding workplace safety and ability to abide by WSP’s health, safety and drug/alcohol and harassment policies.
• Flexible to a variety of schedules to meet business needs and able to prioritize responsibilities and quickly adapt to change in a pressure work environment.

Skills

• Leadership and team-building skills.
• Project management and coordination skills.
• Technical drawing and design skills.
• Construction law and compliance knowledge.
• Interpersonal and communication skills.
• Subcontractor and employee supervision skills.

Benefits

WSP USA offers a comprehensive suite of benefits including medical, dental, vision, disability, life, and retirement savings plans. Additionally, employees are provided with a flexible and agile workplace model, and there is a commitment to workplace safety and adherence to WSP’s health, safety, and drug/alcohol and harassment policies.

Pay

Compensation is competitive and commensurate with experience.

Schedule

Flexible schedule to meet business needs.

About WSP

WSP USA is the U.S. operating company of WSP, a global leader in engineering and professional services. We are dedicated to serving local communities and offer expertise in buildings, transportation, energy, water, and environment markets. With over 15,000 employees in 300 offices across the U.S., we partner with our clients to help communities prosper. For more information, visit www.wsp.com.

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