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Great people. Great places. Great projects. kW Mission Critical Engineering, a WSP company, is a high-performance, fast-paced consulting engineering firm designing data centers and mission critical environments across the globe. We hire smart, responsive, team players to work in collaborative and mentoring office settings. Our mechanical, electrical, plumbing, fire protection, controls, telecommunications, and security building system designs keep many of the world’s top Fortune 100 financial, technology, enterprise, hyperscale, and colocation companies up and running 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.
We work on innovative, award-winning, large-scale projects. We travel to construction sites to see our designs being built. As part of WSP, we are able to offer our employees increased professional development and career opportunities in addition to kW MCE’s office culture which is consistently recognized as one of the “Best Places to Work.” Join our great people at our great places designing great projects.
ROLE AND RESPONSIBILITIES
kW Mission Critical Engineering, a WSP company, is currently looking for an Assistant Vice President, Project Manager for our Atlanta, GA, Milwaukee, WI, or Troy, NY office. As a Senior Project Manager with us, you will lead a diverse group of engineers from project initiation through completion with minimal oversight. This includes regular communications and coordination with clients, managing expectations, writing, and managing proposals, creating change orders, composing budgets, invoicing and project closeout.
- Lead multi-disciplinary teams of Engineers, Designers and other staff through completion of multiple simultaneous projects ranging from small to large with a wide range of complexities and requirements
- Independently prepare project work plans, proposals, and schedules, and obtain management/client approval
- Lead and initiate regular communications with clients regarding project status and project quality, and proactively resolve issues
- Manage relationships with project stakeholders, including internal and external clients and vendors, regulatory authorities and technical agencies, and the public. This involves keeping the stakeholders informed of progress and issues in order to manage expectations on all project requirements and deliverables, and meet the project schedule
- Address change management matters promptly and professionally with clients and internal departments
- Maintain awareness of project budget maintenance, key performance indicators and forecasting
- Lead and manage business development initiatives including Requests for Qualifications and Requests for Proposals
- Compile a comprehensive and realistic scope of work, and prepare a complete and accurate fee estimate, in a format suitable for obtaining the required management approvals
- As Team Leader, provide mentoring, assistance, encouragement and motivation to team members and junior Project Managers
- Provide strong administrative and technical leadership for the project and maintain all project records and monitor correspondence
- Schedule and facilitate all project meetings required to successfully coordinate work activity
- Administer subconsultant agreements as assigned. Have thorough knowledge of the company's contracts and understanding of all parties involved.
- Implement and manage the kW Quality Control Plan for each project
- Proactively track and report workload management throughout the project
- Manage client and subconsultant invoicing
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- Bachelor’s degree
- 10+ years of experience in Project and/or Program Management and experience on large, engineering and/or construction projects.
- Experience leading multi-disciplinary teams of project professionals; concurrently managing issues, scope and quality while bringing projects to successful completion within the cost and time requirements
- Exceptional written and oral communication skills, including experience making presentations to senior management
- Exceptional interpersonal skills
- Ability to work well with people from many different disciplines with varying degrees of technical experience
- Clear, concise, and tactful communication with senior management, clients, peers and staff
- Strategic, conceptual analytical thinking and decision-making skills
- Adaptability and flexibility including the ability to manage deadline pressure, ambiguity and change
- Experience negotiating contract terms
- Proficiency with computer office productivity (i.e., MS Office) and project management software tools
- Detail oriented with ability to manage multiple priorities and meet deadlines
- Familiarity reading drawings and specifications
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Project or Program Management Professional certification (i.e., PMP)
- Experience in an engineering consulting environment
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering, construction management, project management
- Experience in project planning, cost management and schedule management, and methods of analyzing and reporting project performance on financial and other KPIs
WSP 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): $155,000 - $194,000
WSP USA is providing the compensation range that the company in good faith believes it might pay and offer for this position, based on the successful applicant’s education, experience, knowledge, skills, abilities in addition to internal equity and specific geographic location. WSP USA reserves the right to ultimately pay more or less than the posted range and offer additional benefits and other compensation, depending on circumstances not related to an applicant’s sex or other status protected by local, state, and/or federal law.
About WSP
WSP USA is the 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.
WSP provides a flexible and agile workplace model while meeting client needs. Employees are also afforded a comprehensive suite of benefits including medical, dental, vision, disability, life, and retirement savings focused on providing health and financial stability throughout the employee’s career.
At WSP, we want to give our employees the challenges they seek to grow their careers and knowledge base. Your daily contributions to your team will be essential in meeting client objectives, goals and challenges. Are you ready to get started?
WSP USA (and all of its U.S. companies) is an Equal Opportunity Employer Race/Age/Color/Religion/Sex/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity/National Origin/Disability or Protected Veteran Status.
The selected candidate must be authorized to work in the United States.
NOTICE TO THIRD PARTY AGENCIES:
WSP does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruiters, employment agencies, or other staffing services. Unsolicited resumes include any resume or hiring document sent to WSP in the absence of a signed Service Agreement where WSP has expressly requested recruitment/staffing services specific to the position at hand. Any unsolicited resumes, including those submitted to hiring managers or other business leaders, will become the property of WSP and WSP will have the right to hire that candidate without reservation – no fee or other compensation will be owed or paid to the recruiter, employment agency, or other staffing service.
INTRODUCTION
Great people. Great places. Great projects. kW Mission Critical Engineering, a WSP company, is a high-performance, fast-paced consulting engineering firm designing data centers and mission critical environments across the globe. We hire smart, responsive, team players to work in collaborative and mentoring office settings. Our mechanical, electrical, plumbing, fire protection, controls, telecommunications, and security building system designs keep many of the world’s top Fortune 100 financial, technology, enterprise, hyperscale, and colocation companies up and running 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.
We work on innovative, award-winning, large-scale projects. We travel to construction sites to see our designs being built. As part of WSP, we are able to offer our employees increased professional development and career opportunities in addition to kW MCE’s office culture which is consistently recognized as one of the “Best Places to Work.” Join our great people at our great places designing great projects.
ROLE AND RESPONSIBILITIES
kW Mission Critical Engineering, a WSP company, is currently looking for an Assistant Vice President, Project Manager for our Atlanta, GA, Milwaukee, WI, or Troy, NY office. As a Senior Project Manager with us, you will lead a diverse group of engineers from project initiation through completion with minimal oversight. This includes regular communications and coordination with clients, managing expectations, writing, and managing proposals, creating change orders, composing budgets, invoicing and project closeout.
- Lead multi-disciplinary teams of Engineers, Designers and other staff through completion of multiple simultaneous projects ranging from small to large with a wide range of complexities and requirements
- Independently prepare project work plans, proposals, and schedules, and obtain management/client approval
- Lead and initiate regular communications with clients regarding project status and project quality, and proactively resolve issues
- Manage relationships with project stakeholders, including internal and external clients and vendors, regulatory authorities and technical agencies, and the public. This involves keeping the stakeholders informed of progress and issues in order to manage expectations on all project requirements and deliverables, and meet the project schedule
- Address change management matters promptly and professionally with clients and internal departments
- Maintain awareness of project budget maintenance, key performance indicators and forecasting
- Lead and manage business development initiatives including Requests for Qualifications and Requests for Proposals
- Compile a comprehensive and realistic scope of work, and prepare a complete and accurate fee estimate, in a format suitable for obtaining the required management approvals
- As Team Leader, provide mentoring, assistance, encouragement and motivation to team members and junior Project Managers
- Provide strong administrative and technical leadership for the project and maintain all project records and monitor correspondence
- Schedule and facilitate all project meetings required to successfully coordinate work activity
- Administer subconsultant agreements as assigned. Have thorough knowledge of the company's contracts and understanding of all parties involved.
- Implement and manage the kW Quality Control Plan for each project
- Proactively track and report workload management throughout the project
- Manage client and subconsultant invoicing
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- Bachelor’s degree
- 10+ years of experience in Project and/or Program Management and experience on large, engineering and/or construction projects.
- Experience leading multi-disciplinary teams of project professionals; concurrently managing issues, scope and quality while bringing projects to successful completion within the cost and time requirements
- Exceptional written and oral communication skills, including experience making presentations to senior management
- Exceptional interpersonal skills
- Ability to work well with people from many different disciplines with varying degrees of technical experience
- Clear, concise, and tactful communication with senior management, clients, peers and staff
- Strategic, conceptual analytical thinking and decision-making skills
- Adaptability and flexibility including the ability to manage deadline pressure, ambiguity and change
- Experience negotiating contract terms
- Proficiency with computer office productivity (i.e., MS Office) and project management software tools
- Detail oriented with ability to manage multiple priorities and meet deadlines
- Familiarity reading drawings and specifications
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Project or Program Management Professional certification (i.e., PMP)
- Experience in an engineering consulting environment
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering, construction management, project management
- Experience in project planning, cost management and schedule management, and methods of analyzing and reporting project performance on financial and other KPIs
WSP 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): $155,000 - $194,000
WSP USA is providing the compensation range that the company in good faith believes it might pay and offer for this position, based on the successful applicant’s education, experience, knowledge, skills, abilities in addition to internal equity and specific geographic location. WSP USA reserves the right to ultimately pay more or less than the posted range and offer additional benefits and other compensation, depending on circumstances not related to an applicant’s sex or other status protected by local, state, and/or federal law.
About WSP
WSP USA is the 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.
WSP provides a flexible and agile workplace model while meeting client needs. Employees are also afforded a comprehensive suite of benefits including medical, dental, vision, disability, life, and retirement savings focused on providing health and financial stability throughout the employee’s career.
At WSP, we want to give our employees the challenges they seek to grow their careers and knowledge base. Your daily contributions to your team will be essential in meeting client objectives, goals and challenges. Are you ready to get started?
WSP USA (and all of its U.S. companies) is an Equal Opportunity Employer Race/Age/Color/Religion/Sex/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity/National Origin/Disability or Protected Veteran Status.
The selected candidate must be authorized to work in the United States.
NOTICE TO THIRD PARTY AGENCIES:
WSP does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruiters, employment agencies, or other staffing services. Unsolicited resumes include any resume or hiring document sent to WSP in the absence of a signed Service Agreement where WSP has expressly requested recruitment/staffing services specific to the position at hand. Any unsolicited resumes, including those submitted to hiring managers or other business leaders, will become the property of WSP and WSP will have the right to hire that candidate without reservation – no fee or other compensation will be owed or paid to the recruiter, employment agency, or other staffing service.
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Tailor your resume to WSP's project structure
WSP organizes Project Assistants around specific service lines like transportation, environment, and buildings. Align your resume to one of these verticals and reference relevant software tools like ProjectWise or MS Project to signal fit before the sponsorship conversation starts.
Confirm your visa type matches the role
WSP sponsors several visa categories for Project Assistants, but the right one depends on your nationality and degree. If you're Australian, the E-3 is faster and simpler than the H-1B. Confirm which pathway applies to your situation before submitting your application.
Target WSP's campus and early-career pipelines
WSP actively recruits Project Assistants through university partnerships and internship conversion programs. F-1 OPT and CPT candidates should connect with WSP's campus recruiting team directly, as these hires often convert to sponsored full-time roles before positions are publicly posted.
Use Migrate Mate to find open Project Assistant roles
WSP posts Project Assistant positions across multiple geographies and service lines. Use Migrate Mate to filter specifically for WSP openings that include visa sponsorship, so you're only applying to roles where your work authorization situation won't be an obstacle.
Prepare your credential documents before the offer stage
WSP's HR team will need your official transcripts, degree certificates, and a foreign credential evaluation if you studied outside the U.S. Have a NACES-approved evaluation ready in advance so it doesn't slow down your I-129 or LCA preparation after an offer is made.
Understand the LCA filing timeline before negotiating your start date
Your employer must file a certified Labor Condition Application with DOL before USCIS can process your H-1B petition. Standard DOL certification takes seven business days. Build that into your start date discussion so neither side is caught off guard by the sequencing.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does WSP sponsor H-1B visas for Project Assistants?
Yes, WSP sponsors H-1B visas for Project Assistant roles. Because the H-1B requires the position to qualify as a specialty occupation, WSP typically hires Project Assistants with a bachelor's degree in engineering, environmental science, planning, or a related field. Your degree field needs to align with the specific service line you're supporting.
How do I apply for Project Assistant jobs at WSP?
Apply directly through WSP's careers portal, or use Migrate Mate to browse open Project Assistant positions at WSP that are flagged for visa sponsorship. When you apply, be upfront about your work authorization status in the application. WSP's recruiters are familiar with sponsorship timelines, but they need to know your situation from the first conversation.
Which visa types does WSP commonly use for Project Assistant roles?
WSP sponsors H-1B, E-3, TN visa, F-1 OPT, F-1 CPT, and EB-2 or EB-3 Green Card pathways for Project Assistants. F-1 students often start on CPT or OPT and transition to H-1B sponsorship after demonstrating strong performance. Australian candidates should specifically ask about the E-3 option, which avoids the H-1B lottery entirely.
What qualifications does WSP expect for sponsored Project Assistant positions?
WSP generally expects a bachelor's degree in a field relevant to the service line, such as civil engineering, environmental science, architecture, or urban planning. Practical experience with project scheduling tools, document control systems, or field support is valued. Candidates coming through F-1 OPT should have completed coursework directly tied to the team's technical focus area.
How do I plan my timeline when pursuing H-1B sponsorship at WSP?
H-1B cap-subject petitions can only be filed on April 1 for an October 1 start date, so your offer and USCIS registration need to happen in the first quarter of the year. If your OPT expires before October, WSP may be able to use the OPT cap-gap extension to bridge the gap. Align your job search and offer timeline to the USCIS annual H-1B cycle to avoid losing a full year.