Senior Civil Highway Project Manager

About the role

This Opportunity WSP is growing its Minneapolis, MN office and is seeking a highly experienced and motivated candidate to fill our Senior Civil Highway Project Manager position. This position will be critical to delivering infrastructure solutions across Minnesota with a focus on County and Minnesota Department of Transportation (MnDOT) projects, ensuring technical excellence and high-quality deliverables.

Responsibilities

• Support and mentorship of local staff emphasizing Minnesota standards, career development and advancement of technical skills
• Collaborate with professionals, other engineers, planners, and infrastructure authorities on Federal, State, regional, and locally funded improvement projects
• Develop a personal network as well as proposal and business development opportunities
• Interact well with others to develop and create high quality technical and professional deliverables on projects and proposals
• Inspire, motivate, and promote the best of WSP to our clients and communities to ensure strong engagement and team morale
• Manage design projects, studies, and tasks
• Lead preparation of preliminary and final design plans, cost estimates, and special provisions while also developing staff 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
• Demonstrate a high-level of self-leadership with attention to detail, multi-tasking, and prioritization of responsibilities
• Promote excellence and innovation in providing high quality technical products
• Promote commitment to improving and maintaining technical excellence
• Provide leadership in technical and professional activities on projects
• Foster the development of new innovations for clients to be a trusted leader in our industry
• Strong commitment to technical excellence and QAQC procedures

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in civil engineering
• Minimum of 10 years of verifiable professional project management experience
• Professional Engineering registration in the State of Minnesota, or ability to obtain within six (6) months
• Proven experience with MnDOT projects
• Proficiency in Bentley Open Roads Designer software
• Strategic and creative thinking, and crafting approaches to challenging projects
• Strong communication, leadership, and organizational skills

Qualifications

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

Skills

Not specified

Benefits

• WSP provides a comprehensive suite of benefits focused on a 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.
• Compensation: Expected Salary (all locations): $121,100-205,900

Pay

Not specified

Schedule

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Company Information

WSP is a 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.

About WSP

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