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WSP USA is currently initiating a search for a Vice President, Civil TEC Leader to grow and lead our dynamic team in Valhalla and Troy, New York.
Provide multi-office leadership to ensure highway/civil engineering subject matter, technical deliverables, infrastructure projects and programs are delivered with a level of quality that meets or exceeds acceptable industry standards for design, safety, and functionality. Responsible for ensuring corporate compliance with all Local, State, and Federal engineering, construction, and safety regulations, and providing strategic and consistent direction to address current and future challenges in a large-scale and multi-faceted business organization.
Your Impact
- 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 multi-disciplinary 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.
Who You Are
Required Qualifications
- 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 business impact upon the organization.
- Demonstrated ability with establishing, implementing, and managing multiple larger-scale highway/civil discipline-related programs, documents, projects, and practices.
- Excellent leadership and interpersonal communication skills with the ability to manage staff, and effectively, persuasively, and tactfully interact with employees at all levels of the organization.
- Strategic lateral thinking and strong analytical skills with attention to detail and prioritization of responsibilities in a pressure work environment.
- Ability to elicit cooperation from a wide variety of sources, including senior management, clients, and company-wide staff, including those with whom no formal hierarchical relationship exists.
- Strong ability to quickly adapt to change and demonstrate flexibility to a variety of schedules and hours to meet business needs.
- Advanced knowledge and proficiency with office automation, highway/civil discipline-specific design software, technology, math principles, predictive models, spreadsheets, and tools used in the corporate environment.
- Proven track record of upholding workplace safety and ability to abide by WSP’s health, safety and drug/alcohol and harassment policies.
- Occasional travel may be required depending on project-specific requirements.
WSP Benefits:
WSP provides a comprehensive suite of benefits focused on 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): $153,000 - $250,000
WSP USA is providing the compensation range and general description of other compensation and benefits that the company in good faith believes it might pay and/or offer for this position based on the successful applicant’s education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities in addition to internal equity and 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, or federal law.
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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.
This Opportunity
WSP USA is currently initiating a search for a Vice President, Civil TEC Leader to grow and lead our dynamic team in Valhalla and Troy, New York.
Provide multi-office leadership to ensure highway/civil engineering subject matter, technical deliverables, infrastructure projects and programs are delivered with a level of quality that meets or exceeds acceptable industry standards for design, safety, and functionality. Responsible for ensuring corporate compliance with all Local, State, and Federal engineering, construction, and safety regulations, and providing strategic and consistent direction to address current and future challenges in a large-scale and multi-faceted business organization.
Your Impact
- 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 multi-disciplinary 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.
Who You Are
Required Qualifications
- 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 business impact upon the organization.
- Demonstrated ability with establishing, implementing, and managing multiple larger-scale highway/civil discipline-related programs, documents, projects, and practices.
- Excellent leadership and interpersonal communication skills with the ability to manage staff, and effectively, persuasively, and tactfully interact with employees at all levels of the organization.
- Strategic lateral thinking and strong analytical skills with attention to detail and prioritization of responsibilities in a pressure work environment.
- Ability to elicit cooperation from a wide variety of sources, including senior management, clients, and company-wide staff, including those with whom no formal hierarchical relationship exists.
- Strong ability to quickly adapt to change and demonstrate flexibility to a variety of schedules and hours to meet business needs.
- Advanced knowledge and proficiency with office automation, highway/civil discipline-specific design software, technology, math principles, predictive models, spreadsheets, and tools used in the corporate environment.
- Proven track record of upholding workplace safety and ability to abide by WSP’s health, safety and drug/alcohol and harassment policies.
- Occasional travel may be required depending on project-specific requirements.
WSP Benefits:
WSP provides a comprehensive suite of benefits focused on 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): $153,000 - $250,000
WSP USA is providing the compensation range and general description of other compensation and benefits that the company in good faith believes it might pay and/or offer for this position based on the successful applicant’s education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities in addition to internal equity and 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, or federal law.
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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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Align your credentials to WSP's project portfolio
WSP VP roles typically require demonstrated leadership on large-scale infrastructure, environmental, or advisory engagements. Before applying, map your project experience to WSP's active service lines so your resume reflects the specific technical depth they evaluate at the VP level.
Target WSP's sector-specific VP openings strategically
WSP hires VPs within defined practice areas like transportation, water, or sustainability consulting. Applying to a role that matches your technical discipline increases the likelihood that your petition supports a clear specialty occupation determination under USCIS standards.
Request clarity on LCA prevailing wage before accepting
VP-level compensation at consulting firms varies significantly by geography and business unit. Ask your recruiter which DOL wage level applies to your role so you can verify the offered salary meets prevailing wage requirements before the Labor Condition Application is filed.
Prepare a strong organizational chart for your petition
USCIS scrutinizes VP-level H-1B petitions to confirm the role genuinely requires a specialty occupation degree. A clear org chart showing the technical complexity of your team and reporting structure strengthens the petition and helps WSP's legal team build the evidence file.
Factor PERM timelines into your career transition plan
If WSP initiates Green Card sponsorship through the EB-2 or EB-3 PERM process, the DOL audit timeline can extend your overall wait significantly. Build at least 18 to 24 months of buffer into your planning so visa transitions don't create gaps in your authorization.
Use Migrate Mate to identify open VP roles at WSP
VP positions at WSP are posted across multiple business units and aren't always labeled consistently. Use Migrate Mate to filter WSP's open Vice President roles by visa sponsorship type so you're applying to positions where sponsorship is already confirmed, not assumed.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does WSP sponsor H-1B visas for Vice Presidents?
Yes, WSP sponsors H-1B visas for Vice President roles. At the VP level, petitions typically include detailed documentation showing the role requires a directly related bachelor's degree or higher, which is the specialty occupation standard USCIS applies. WSP works with experienced immigration counsel to support senior-level filings across its consulting and professional services practices.
Which visa types does WSP commonly use for Vice President roles?
WSP sponsors H-1B, E-3 visa, TN visa, and F-1 OPT visas for Vice President positions, depending on your nationality and career stage. For longer-term pathways, WSP also supports EB-2 and EB-3 Green Card sponsorship. Australian citizens often pursue the E-3 visa route given its cap-exempt structure and straightforward renewal process at the VP level.
What qualifications does WSP expect for Vice President roles?
WSP VP roles in consulting and professional services generally require an advanced degree in engineering, environmental science, planning, or a related technical discipline, combined with substantial years of progressively senior experience. Many openings also expect demonstrated business development experience, P&L accountability, or client relationship management within large-scale infrastructure or advisory projects.
How do I apply for Vice President jobs at WSP?
You can browse Vice President openings at WSP filtered by visa sponsorship type on Migrate Mate, which surfaces roles where sponsorship is confirmed. When applying, tailor your materials to WSP's specific practice area for that VP opening. The hiring process typically includes multiple rounds with technical leadership and senior stakeholders before an offer is extended.
How do I plan my timeline if WSP is sponsoring my visa for a VP role?
Timeline planning depends on which visa applies to you. H-1B transfers from another sponsor are generally faster than new cap-subject filings, which are tied to the annual April lottery. E-3 and TN visas can move quickly once the Labor Condition Application is certified by DOL. If Green Card sponsorship is part of your conversation with WSP, initiate that discussion early since PERM recruitment and DOL review add significant lead time.