Senior Consultant, Advisory Services

The WSP US Advisory practice is dedicated to transforming the business of infrastructure across the transportation, buildings, energy, water, environment, and power sectors. We provide our clients with the full range of strategic planning, organizational development, economic and financial analysis and project development and delivery services supported by WSP's engineering expertise in all infrastructure markets.

With changing economic conditions, evolving government priorities, aging assets and emerging technologies, clients rely on the Advisory Services team for its unique combination of infrastructure delivery expertise and management consulting leadership. We help clients develop, procure, manage, finance and invest in infrastructure assets to successfully deliver programs and projects.

We are looking for a motivated individual to join our Business Transformation service area. This individual will join a group of trusted advisors in delivering business and operational solutions while helping to shape the future growth of the nation’s built environment. WSP is currently initiating a search for a Senior Consultant, Advisory Services
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• Support Advisory Services projects within the company, ensuring project management, budget, work product, quality control and financial performance meet company standards
• Develop high quality technical and professional deliverables on projects and proposals
• Perform complex qualitative and quantitative analysis
• Contribute to client meetings and develop trusted relationships
• Evaluate current state across people, processes and technology
• Recommend data‑driven improvements to achieve future state
• Develop and drive completion of action‑oriented improvement roadmaps
• Translate client concerns into actionable scopes, sequences of activities and associated deliverables
• Familiarity with industry standard practices, business process mapping notation and methodologies
• Understand capital delivery processes, particularly in transit and rail, roadways and/or power industry contexts (planning, design, procurement, construction, handover to operations)
• Navigate ambiguous environments and complex conversations with clients and leadership to define scope and keep the project on track
• Manage own work and contribute to team work products, including time management and meeting deadlines
• Work in a matrixed environment and influence without authority
• Manage scope, schedule and budget for assigned tasks and smaller projects
• Contribute to thought leadership and subject‑matter collateral development
• Keep up‑to‑date with technical knowledge of current and emerging practices
• Mentor junior staff
• Contribute to proposal preparation and marketing activities
• Proactively identify technical issues and take actions to mitigate risk
• Adhere to WSP's Code of Conduct and related policies and procedures

• Bachelor’s Degree in a relevant field
• 5 to 7 years of directly relevant experience, particularly capital delivery in one or more infrastructure sectors such as transit and rail, roadways and/or utilities
• Proven experience in consulting or a comparable role in an organization where the individual has been responsible for developing organizational capability, process improvement and/or performance improvement
• Excellent facilitation, presentation and communication skills, particularly related to interviews and workshops
• Strong written and analytical skills
• Strong interpersonal skills and high emotional intelligence
• Strong team player who can get things done through collaboration and individual contributions

• Experience in designing and implementing process improvement or change management activities
• Understanding of government agency operations
• Familiarity with technological solutions and tools that support automation and decision making within the public works environment
• Project Management Professional (PMP) certification
• Lean Six‑Sigma certification (or similar)
• Prosci certification (or similar)

WSP provides a comprehensive suite of benefits focused on providing health and financial stability throughout the employee’s career. These benefits include…