Vice President, Civil TEC Leader

Vice President, Civil TEC Leader

Location:

Valhalla and Troy, New York.

• Provide proactive and strategic process and people leadership for the design, implementation, and administration of highway/civil engineering project and program involvement within the organization.
• Lead the most complex and largest scale highway/civil engineering projects within the engineering discipline, ensuring contributors know what they are required to do and by when, preparing and overseeing relevant project budgets, monitoring internal and external events, tracking hours and expenses, ensuring satisfactory performance and profitability, and supervising subcontractors, contract work, and employees.
• Responsible for the pursuit and development of business and the successful execution of work for current and potential infrastructure work specifically for the large projects across eastern New York State.
• Lead technical aspects of contract negotiation, presentations, and meetings.
• Drive the overall long‑term strategy, growth, and pipeline development of highway/civil engineering work for WSP in assigned area of responsibility, with a focus on infrastructure opportunities in disciplines including planning, preliminary and final design, and strategic consulting.
• Accountable for the profitable performance of the individual projects and the successful completion of the group’s highway/civil projects.
• Drive compliance and accountability‑at‑all‑levels with applicable Federal, State, and Local engineering/design/construction laws, codes, policies, and regulatory requirements.
• Oversee internal vision and mission for the engineering discipline, ensuring alignment with business operations strategy, and maintaining that certifications, accreditations, and client value ratings are continuously improved.
• Lead highway/civil engineering discipline meetings and continuing educational opportunities for area of responsibility, providing updates and recommendations to staff that ensure all appropriate measures are taken to foster innovation, development, and quality project delivery within the discipline.
• Serve as the highway/civil engineering discipline’s representative/liaison to a variety of external entities including Federal, State, and Local Agencies, Clients, Subcontractors, industry‑related groups, and various government and community entities.
• Provide senior leadership for proposals and project work scopes, pricing, budget, and performance metrics for the engineering discipline.
• Interpret and summarize data, including reports and documents for complex projects and initiatives that result in sound engineering and regulatory conclusions.
• Provide highway/civil discipline leadership to multidisciplinary project teams and contribute to providing high level strategic advice to clients.
• Provides performance guidance and proactive leadership to assigned managers and staff.
• Develop high‑level business contacts and a client base for providing high level civil engineering services including identifying additional business development opportunities, and cross‑selling of other WSP capabilities.
• Remain current in latest highway/civil engineering techniques and practices.
• Collaborate with professionals from a variety of disciplines to provide future ready solutions for clients.
• Exercise responsible and ethical decision-making regarding company funds, resources and conduct, and adhere to WSP’s Code of Conduct and related policies and procedures.
• Perform additional responsibilities as required by business needs.

• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering, or closely related discipline.
• 12+ years of relevant post education experience in highway/civil engineering and infrastructure design.
• NYS Professional Engineer license required (multi‑state preferred).
• Advanced proficiency with highway/civil engineering principles, practices, process, design/build, standard of care, and the application to permitting and project work‑related issues.
• Extensive advanced proficiency with infrastructure design.
• Advanced knowledge of relevant highway/civil construction laws, codes, regulations, compliance practices, and record‑keeping requirements, and the…