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Regional Sales Director roles qualify for E-3 visa sponsorship as specialty occupations requiring a bachelor's degree in business, marketing, or a related field. Australian nationals can bypass the H-1B lottery entirely, with the E-3's 10,500 annual cap rarely approaching its limit, making this one of the most direct paths to U.S. sales leadership.
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WSP is currently initiating a search for a Regional Traffic Operations Center (TOC) Operations Manager!
This role will sit out of Herndon, VA.
The Regional TOC Operations Manager is responsible for the overall management, leadership, and day-to-day operation of one of Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT's) regional TOCs. This position provides operational oversight for a 24-hour, seven-day-per-week transportation management operation supporting incident management, traveler information, weather operations, arterial management, intelligent transportation systems (ITS) system monitoring, emergency response, and special event operations.
The Operations Manager serves as the primary operational liaison between VDOT, the Contractor, partner agencies, and internal management staff. The position is responsible for ensuring compliance with all contract requirements, Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), Annual Work Plans (AWPs), Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), staffing requirements, and operational objectives while fostering a culture of continuous improvement and operational excellence.
Your Impact
- Manage the daily operation of a regional TOC.
- Lead all TOC supervisors, lead operators, operators, analysts, and support staff.
- Ensure continuous 24/7/365 operational coverage.
- Develop and maintain Annual Work Plans (AWPs).
- Monitor contractual Key Performance Indicators (KPIs).
- Ensure compliance with all VDOT policies and SOPs.
- Oversee staffing, scheduling, recruiting, employee development, and performance evaluations.
- Coordinate special events, emergency operations, weather events, and incident response activities.
- Coordinate directly with VDOT Regional Traffic Operations staff.
- Lead monthly operational reviews and performance reporting.
- Develop corrective action plans when operational deficiencies occur.
- Coordinate interoperability between regional TOCs.
- Ensure operational readiness during emergencies.
- Lead continuous improvement initiatives.
- Manage operational budgets and reporting requirements.
- Serve as the primary point of contact for regional operational issues.
Who You Are
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's Degree in Transportation, Engineering, Emergency Management, Public Administration, Business Administration, Information Systems, or related field.
- 10+ years of progressively responsible transportation operations experience.
Required Experience
- Five or more years supervising a 24/7 operations center.
- Experience managing transportation operations or traffic management centers.
- Experience leading supervisors and operations personnel.
- Traffic Incident Management experience.
- Experience working with police, fire, EMS, DOT maintenance, and emergency management agencies.
- Experience in preparing executive reports and operational metrics.
- Experience with staffing, scheduling, budgeting, and performance management.
- Experience managing multiple priorities during emergency operations.
Preferred Qualifications
- Traffic Operations Center experience.
- Advanced Traffic Management Systems (ATMS).
- Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS).
- Performance dashboards and KPI reporting.
- FHWA SHRP2TIM training certification.
- NIMS / ICS 100 / 200 / 700 / 800.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
- Strong leadership and decision-making skills.
- Excellent written and verbal communication.
- Executive presentation skills.
- Personnel management.
- Strategic planning.
- Conflict resolution.
- Public speaking.
- Emergency management.
- Ability to build relationships with local, state, and federal partners.
Supervisory Responsibilities
- Responsible for the supervision of:
- Shift Supervisors
- Lead Operators
- Traffic Operators
- Data Analysts
- Lane Closure Coordinators
- Signal Engineers (where applicable)
- Training personnel
Working Conditions
- Primarily office based within a Traffic Operations Center.
- Occasional travel throughout the assigned VDOT Region.
- Participation in emergency operations.
- On-call availability.
- Evening, weekend, and holiday work as required.
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): $143,000 - $213,000
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.
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 is currently initiating a search for a Regional Traffic Operations Center (TOC) Operations Manager!
This role will sit out of Herndon, VA.
The Regional TOC Operations Manager is responsible for the overall management, leadership, and day-to-day operation of one of Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT's) regional TOCs. This position provides operational oversight for a 24-hour, seven-day-per-week transportation management operation supporting incident management, traveler information, weather operations, arterial management, intelligent transportation systems (ITS) system monitoring, emergency response, and special event operations.
The Operations Manager serves as the primary operational liaison between VDOT, the Contractor, partner agencies, and internal management staff. The position is responsible for ensuring compliance with all contract requirements, Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), Annual Work Plans (AWPs), Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), staffing requirements, and operational objectives while fostering a culture of continuous improvement and operational excellence.
Your Impact
- Manage the daily operation of a regional TOC.
- Lead all TOC supervisors, lead operators, operators, analysts, and support staff.
- Ensure continuous 24/7/365 operational coverage.
- Develop and maintain Annual Work Plans (AWPs).
- Monitor contractual Key Performance Indicators (KPIs).
- Ensure compliance with all VDOT policies and SOPs.
- Oversee staffing, scheduling, recruiting, employee development, and performance evaluations.
- Coordinate special events, emergency operations, weather events, and incident response activities.
- Coordinate directly with VDOT Regional Traffic Operations staff.
- Lead monthly operational reviews and performance reporting.
- Develop corrective action plans when operational deficiencies occur.
- Coordinate interoperability between regional TOCs.
- Ensure operational readiness during emergencies.
- Lead continuous improvement initiatives.
- Manage operational budgets and reporting requirements.
- Serve as the primary point of contact for regional operational issues.
Who You Are
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's Degree in Transportation, Engineering, Emergency Management, Public Administration, Business Administration, Information Systems, or related field.
- 10+ years of progressively responsible transportation operations experience.
Required Experience
- Five or more years supervising a 24/7 operations center.
- Experience managing transportation operations or traffic management centers.
- Experience leading supervisors and operations personnel.
- Traffic Incident Management experience.
- Experience working with police, fire, EMS, DOT maintenance, and emergency management agencies.
- Experience in preparing executive reports and operational metrics.
- Experience with staffing, scheduling, budgeting, and performance management.
- Experience managing multiple priorities during emergency operations.
Preferred Qualifications
- Traffic Operations Center experience.
- Advanced Traffic Management Systems (ATMS).
- Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS).
- Performance dashboards and KPI reporting.
- FHWA SHRP2TIM training certification.
- NIMS / ICS 100 / 200 / 700 / 800.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
- Strong leadership and decision-making skills.
- Excellent written and verbal communication.
- Executive presentation skills.
- Personnel management.
- Strategic planning.
- Conflict resolution.
- Public speaking.
- Emergency management.
- Ability to build relationships with local, state, and federal partners.
Supervisory Responsibilities
- Responsible for the supervision of:
- Shift Supervisors
- Lead Operators
- Traffic Operators
- Data Analysts
- Lane Closure Coordinators
- Signal Engineers (where applicable)
- Training personnel
Working Conditions
- Primarily office based within a Traffic Operations Center.
- Occasional travel throughout the assigned VDOT Region.
- Participation in emergency operations.
- On-call availability.
- Evening, weekend, and holiday work as required.
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): $143,000 - $213,000
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.
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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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding E-3 Visa Sponsorship in Regional Sales Director
Frame your degree for specialty occupation
Consular officers assess whether your bachelor's degree directly supports the Regional Sales Director role. A business, marketing, or management degree maps cleanly. If your degree is in an unrelated field, document how progressive sales leadership experience closes the gap.
Target employers with active LCA filing history
Search the DOL's Foreign Labor Application Gateway for employers who have filed LCAs for sales director roles. Prior LCA activity signals that a company understands the E-3 visa process and won't treat your sponsorship request as an unfamiliar burden.
Address the prevailing wage question early
Your offered salary must meet the DOL prevailing wage for Regional Sales Directors in the specific metro area. Raise this during offer negotiation, not after, so the employer files the LCA at the correct wage level and avoids a costly amendment later.
Use Migrate Mate's E-3 filing service for the LCA
LCA certification from the DOL must precede your consulate appointment. Use Migrate Mate's E-3 filing service to handle your LCA and visa paperwork so nothing stalls your start date while your employer focuses on onboarding.
Clarify your title before the DS-160
Job titles on the LCA and DS-160 must match exactly. Regional Sales Director variations like VP of Sales or National Account Director can trigger questions at the consulate. Confirm the official title with your employer before either form is submitted.
Prepare for nonimmigrant intent questions at interview
E-3 is a nonimmigrant visa, so consular officers may ask about your ties to Australia. Sales directors with global accounts or Australian client relationships have natural, credible answers. Think through your response before your appointment, not during it.
E-3 Visa Regional Sales Director: Frequently Asked Questions
How do I find Regional Sales Director jobs with E-3 visa sponsorship?
Migrate Mate is the most direct way to search for Regional Sales Director roles where employers are open to E-3 sponsorship. The platform filters listings by sponsorship willingness, saving you from applying to roles where the E-3 is a dealbreaker. You can also search the DOL's LCA disclosure data to identify companies that have sponsored similar sales roles before.
How much does it cost to get an E-3 visa?
Migrate Mate's E-3 filing service covers the entire process for $499, including the Labor Condition Application, visa document preparation, and consulate appointment guidance. Traditional immigration lawyers charge $2,000–$5,000+ for the same work. The E-3 has less paperwork than most work visas, so paying thousands for legal help is usually unnecessary.
Does a Regional Sales Director role qualify as a specialty occupation for the E-3?
Yes, provided the employer requires a bachelor's degree in a specific field such as business, marketing, or a related discipline. The role must be defined in a way that ties the degree to the job duties. Generic sales management roles where any degree qualifies can create problems at the consulate, so job description precision matters.
How does the E-3 compare to the H-1B for Regional Sales Director roles?
The E-3 has no lottery, no random selection, and a cap of 10,500 visas per year that has never been fully used. The H-1B process starts with a lottery in March and employment cannot begin until October 1 at the earliest. For Australian nationals in senior sales roles, the E-3 is a significantly faster and more predictable path to starting work.
Can I change employers or get promoted while on an E-3?
You can change employers, but your new employer must file a fresh LCA and you need a new E-3 visa stamp before returning to the U.S. if you travel internationally. A promotion that significantly changes your job duties or title may also require an updated LCA to ensure your salary still meets the prevailing wage for the new role.