Assistant Vice President, Asset Management
About the role
The WSP US Advisory practice is dedicated to transforming the business of infrastructure across various sectors including transportation, buildings, energy, water, environment, and power. We provide strategic planning, organizational development, economic and financial analysis, and project development and delivery services supported by engineering expertise.
Responsibilities
- Lead and deliver a range of asset management projects with some of the largest, iconic infrastructure owners and operators in the United States – with a focus on Transit, Highways, Airports, Water, and Power asset management.
- Lead and pursue strategic consulting services including maintenance, technology, asset data, organization and process improvements.
- Implement asset management improvement initiatives working with multi-disciplinary client teams including engineering, capital, operations, and IT.
- Develop asset management plans, facility condition assessments, asset performance management, asset lifecycle strategies, asset lifecycle cost analysis, capital needs assessment and prioritization, organizational capabilities, maintenance assessments, process mapping and improvement, reliability centered maintenance, predictive maintenance, condition monitoring, digital twin, asset data standards, data governance, GIS implementation, and EAM system implementation and integration.
- Contribute to staffing needs and ensure staff are retained and engaged.
- Lead business development activities in coordination with the rest of the team, including identification of new client opportunities, proposal development, and marketing to continue growing our business.
- Develop solid client relationships with a focus on understanding the needs of our clients and collaborating internally to offer the best solutions.
- Provide leadership in technical and professional activities that enable mentoring our junior staff and developing their technical and soft skills.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree or higher in Engineering, Business Administration, Transportation Planning, Operations Research, or closely related and applicable discipline.
- 10+ years of post-education experience performing similar work.
- Experience working as a consultant, with a successful track record of managing the delivery of complex asset management projects.
- Experience in strategic, planning, operational or technology related asset management aspects in one or more infrastructure sectors, including transportation, water, energy, municipalities or utilities.
- Experience developing asset hierarchies, asset data standards, asset definition and data dictionaries and other similar protocols for EAM System implementation.
- Experience pursuing new business opportunities, developing technical proposals and winning work.
- Excellent facilitation, presentation, and communication skills both in person and remotely.
- A strong quality standard with an innate attention to detail.
- Strong analytical skills including experience with asset performance data, financial data, and asset lifecycle cost analysis.
- Demonstrated understanding of ISO55001 and its implementation within agencies operationally.
- Strong interpersonal skills and high emotional intelligence.
- Strong team player who can get things done under competing client priorities.
Preferred Qualifications
- Master’s degree.
- Management Consulting, Engineering Consulting, or Data Science experience.
- Proven experience in consulting or a comparable role in an organization where the individual has held a role responsible for deployment of asset management technologies.
- Demonstrated experience on EAM System Implementations including Maximo, Infor, Trapeze or other systems.
- IAM Diploma or Certified Asset Management Assessor (CAMA) certificate.
Benefits
WSP provides a comprehensive suite of benefits focused on providing health and financial stability throughout the employee’s career. These benefits include coverage related to medical, dental, vision, disability, and life; retirement savings; paid sick leave; paid vacation (or other personal time); paid parental leave; and paid time off for purposes of bereavement, voting, and/or attendance at naturalization proceedings.
Pay
Expected Salary (all locations): $143,800 - $227,500
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