Assistant Vice President, Transportation Planning

This Opportunity WSP is one of the world’s leading professional services firms, uniting its engineering, planning, and science-based expertise to shape communities. From local beginnings to a globe-spanning presence today, WSP operates in over 50 countries and employs approximately 73,000 professionals, known as Visioneers. Together they pioneer solutions and deliver innovative projects across sectors: Transportation & Infrastructure, Water, Property & Buildings, Earth & Environment, and Power & Energy. WSP is currently initiating a search for an Assistant Vice President, Transportation Planner for Nevada, based in the WSP Las Vegas office. This is a strategic leadership role as we continue to strengthen and grow our transportation planning practice locally, working with clients such as the Nevada Department of Transportation (NDOT), Clark County, RTC, and the cities of Las Vegas, North Las Vegas, and Henderson. At WSP, we are driven by inspiring the right people to be part of our Future Ready business objectives. Our devotion to teamwork has allowed us to build communities and expand our skylines. Here at WSP, anything is within our reach and yours as a WSP employee. Come join us and help shape the future!

Your Impact WSP’s vision is based on the four pillars of our business: Expertise, Clients, Operational Excellence, and People & Culture. Expertise • Serve as project manager, deputy project manager, and task lead and collaborate with professionals from a variety of disciplines to provide future ready transportation planning solutions for clients. • Oversee and monitor cross-functional teams to execute project work, including managing project scope, schedule, and budgets and cost-to-complete. • Coordinate with project managers, task managers, project team technical leads, subconsultants, and other disciplines such as planning, engineering, sustainability and traffic team members. • Perform professional transportation planning work and conduct investigations, and studies, to gain further information on a particular problem or issue, verify site characteristics, and/or to plan for future needs affecting transportation analysis and demand management, corridor planning, complete streets, multimodal mobility, and safety planning, PEL Studies and NEPA analyses. • Demonstrated experience applying and interpreting various traffic modeling tools (e.g., microsimulation, macroscopic, and mesoscopic models) to support transportation planning and operational analysis. • Lead and prepare drafts of transportation technical reports and memos, presentations, and other materials to summarize research, findings, and recommendations. • Lead staff to prepare data and visualizations such as tables, charts, reports, models, infographics, cross-sections, and 3D illustrations for the interpretation or presentation of complex and large-scale data, findings, or analyses.