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WSP is seeking an organized, analytical, and proactive Senior Professional, Project Management for our Seattle, WA office, to support the financial management and operational delivery of our growing Transportation and Infrastructure practice. Other locations include Tacoma, Vancouver, Redmond, Portland, OR and Bend, OR. This role is ideal for someone who enjoys working at the intersection of project execution, financial performance, reporting, contract administration, and client service.
The Senior Professional, Project Management will support multiple active project and task order-based project assignments and serve as a key member of the project leadership team. This individual will help project management leaders maintain budget control, forecast project needs, create and maintain project tracking logs and executive communication tools, track contract performance, coordinate conflicts between multiple contracts, prepare client reports, support invoicing, monitor project financial health, perform project milestone tasks, and ensure projects remain audit-ready and compliant with agency requirements. Responsibilities align with project accounting, budget tracking, invoicing support, documentation management, and project administration functions identified within WSP's T&I delivery framework.
Your Impact
Financial Management
- Monitor project budgets, labor utilization, and contract performance across multiple project assignments.
- Prepare monthly financial reports, forecasts, and project performance summaries.
- Manage subconsultant contract documentation and financial reporting in accordance with the contract.
- Margin erosion tracking; tracking and devaluating rate adjustments on contracts. Submitting annual rate changes and adjustments.
- Support project managers with earned revenue projections, backlog tracking, and resource forecasting.
- Support Program and Project Managers with budget development, monitoring, Estimate to Complete (ETCs), and recovery plans, and invoices.
- Review labor charges, consultant invoices, reimbursable expenses, and project expenditure for accuracy.
- Assist with budget development, task order tracking, and contract modifications.
- Identify budget risks and recommend corrective actions before impacts occur.
Reporting & Project Controls
- Develop and maintain project dashboards for executive leadership, project managers, and clients.
- Support development of project workflows for streamlined administrative processes.
- Prepare monthly, quarterly, and annual project status reports.
- Track key performance indicators including budget, schedule, staffing, utilization, invoicing, and collections.
- Support development of executive-level reporting for business operations and portfolio management.
- Analyze project trends and provide recommendations to improve performance and profitability.
Contract Administration
- Support project managers with contract compliance requirements, including development and maintenance of management tools (PMP, QMP, RMP, and safety plans).
- Track amendments, task orders, subcontract agreements, and contract funding authorizations.
- Maintain documentation supporting federally funded, state-funded, and municipal projects.
- Support project managers with subcontracting agreements and amendments.
- Support internal and external audits by maintaining complete and accurate project records.
Project Delivery Support
- Coordinate with project managers, deputy project managers, task order managers, and accounting staff.
- Assist with staffing plans, workload forecasting, and resource management activities.
- Support proposal development, project startup and closeout activities.
- Facilitate coordination between project teams and corporate support functions.
- Help standardize project management processes across the Transportation and Infrastructure practice.
- 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 Construction Management, Engineering, Business, Finance, Accounting, or related field or equivalent.
- Minimum of 5 years of experience supporting project financials, project controls, project management, professional engineering or construction management programs.
- Strong understanding of project budgeting, forecasting, invoicing, and financial reporting.
- Advanced Microsoft Excel skills.
- Experience in preparing executive-level reports and dashboards.
- Excellent organizational, analytical, and communication skills.
- Ability to manage multiple assignments simultaneously.
- Developed critical thinking and problem-solving skills required to apply technical knowledge to reach conclusions from testing results, data collation, statistical analysis and arriving at the most effective, economical, and logical solution.
- Ability to assertively direct others in the field such as subcontractors and others to consistently complete tasks safely and efficiently.
- Proven track record of upholding workplace safety and ability to abide by WSP’s health, safety and drug/alcohol and harassment policies.
- Ability to work schedules conducive to project-specific requirements that may extend beyond the typical workweek. Occasional travel may be required depending on project-specific requirements.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience supporting public agency transportation, transit, utility, or infrastructure projects.
- Familiarity with Sound Transit, WSDOT, local agency, FHWA, FTA, FRA, or federally funded project requirements.
- Experience with project management and ERP systems.
- Project controls, scheduling, accounting, or financial analysis experience.
- CAPM/PMP certification or pursuit of CAPM/PMP certification.
- Experience working in a professional engineering or construction management consulting environment.
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): $95,000 - $156,600
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 seeking an organized, analytical, and proactive Senior Professional, Project Management for our Seattle, WA office, to support the financial management and operational delivery of our growing Transportation and Infrastructure practice. Other locations include Tacoma, Vancouver, Redmond, Portland, OR and Bend, OR. This role is ideal for someone who enjoys working at the intersection of project execution, financial performance, reporting, contract administration, and client service.
The Senior Professional, Project Management will support multiple active project and task order-based project assignments and serve as a key member of the project leadership team. This individual will help project management leaders maintain budget control, forecast project needs, create and maintain project tracking logs and executive communication tools, track contract performance, coordinate conflicts between multiple contracts, prepare client reports, support invoicing, monitor project financial health, perform project milestone tasks, and ensure projects remain audit-ready and compliant with agency requirements. Responsibilities align with project accounting, budget tracking, invoicing support, documentation management, and project administration functions identified within WSP's T&I delivery framework.
Your Impact
Financial Management
- Monitor project budgets, labor utilization, and contract performance across multiple project assignments.
- Prepare monthly financial reports, forecasts, and project performance summaries.
- Manage subconsultant contract documentation and financial reporting in accordance with the contract.
- Margin erosion tracking; tracking and devaluating rate adjustments on contracts. Submitting annual rate changes and adjustments.
- Support project managers with earned revenue projections, backlog tracking, and resource forecasting.
- Support Program and Project Managers with budget development, monitoring, Estimate to Complete (ETCs), and recovery plans, and invoices.
- Review labor charges, consultant invoices, reimbursable expenses, and project expenditure for accuracy.
- Assist with budget development, task order tracking, and contract modifications.
- Identify budget risks and recommend corrective actions before impacts occur.
Reporting & Project Controls
- Develop and maintain project dashboards for executive leadership, project managers, and clients.
- Support development of project workflows for streamlined administrative processes.
- Prepare monthly, quarterly, and annual project status reports.
- Track key performance indicators including budget, schedule, staffing, utilization, invoicing, and collections.
- Support development of executive-level reporting for business operations and portfolio management.
- Analyze project trends and provide recommendations to improve performance and profitability.
Contract Administration
- Support project managers with contract compliance requirements, including development and maintenance of management tools (PMP, QMP, RMP, and safety plans).
- Track amendments, task orders, subcontract agreements, and contract funding authorizations.
- Maintain documentation supporting federally funded, state-funded, and municipal projects.
- Support project managers with subcontracting agreements and amendments.
- Support internal and external audits by maintaining complete and accurate project records.
Project Delivery Support
- Coordinate with project managers, deputy project managers, task order managers, and accounting staff.
- Assist with staffing plans, workload forecasting, and resource management activities.
- Support proposal development, project startup and closeout activities.
- Facilitate coordination between project teams and corporate support functions.
- Help standardize project management processes across the Transportation and Infrastructure practice.
- 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 Construction Management, Engineering, Business, Finance, Accounting, or related field or equivalent.
- Minimum of 5 years of experience supporting project financials, project controls, project management, professional engineering or construction management programs.
- Strong understanding of project budgeting, forecasting, invoicing, and financial reporting.
- Advanced Microsoft Excel skills.
- Experience in preparing executive-level reports and dashboards.
- Excellent organizational, analytical, and communication skills.
- Ability to manage multiple assignments simultaneously.
- Developed critical thinking and problem-solving skills required to apply technical knowledge to reach conclusions from testing results, data collation, statistical analysis and arriving at the most effective, economical, and logical solution.
- Ability to assertively direct others in the field such as subcontractors and others to consistently complete tasks safely and efficiently.
- Proven track record of upholding workplace safety and ability to abide by WSP’s health, safety and drug/alcohol and harassment policies.
- Ability to work schedules conducive to project-specific requirements that may extend beyond the typical workweek. Occasional travel may be required depending on project-specific requirements.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience supporting public agency transportation, transit, utility, or infrastructure projects.
- Familiarity with Sound Transit, WSDOT, local agency, FHWA, FTA, FRA, or federally funded project requirements.
- Experience with project management and ERP systems.
- Project controls, scheduling, accounting, or financial analysis experience.
- CAPM/PMP certification or pursuit of CAPM/PMP certification.
- Experience working in a professional engineering or construction management consulting environment.
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): $95,000 - $156,600
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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Align your credentials with specialty occupation
Your Australian degree must match the specific discipline of the project management role, not just management broadly. A construction PM role needs an engineering or construction management degree; a tech PM role needs an IT or computer science background to satisfy E-3 visa specialty occupation criteria.
Target employers with active LCA filing history
Search the DOL's Foreign Labor Certification Data Center for employers who have previously filed Labor Condition Applications for project management titles. Those employers already understand the E-3 process and are far less likely to delay or withdraw an offer over sponsorship uncertainty.
Address the specialty occupation question early
Senior project management roles sometimes face consular scrutiny over whether they genuinely require a degree in a specific field. Before your interview, document how the role uses specialized theoretical knowledge, not just general managerial experience, and bring supporting evidence such as project scope statements or technical specifications.
Use Migrate Mate's E-3 filing service for the LCA and paperwork
Once you have an offer, use Migrate Mate's E-3 filing service to handle your LCA and visa paperwork. The LCA must be certified by the DOL before your consulate appointment, and errors at that stage can delay your start date by weeks.
Clarify third-party worksite arrangements with your employer
Many senior PM roles involve deploying to a client site rather than the employer's own office. Confirm with your employer that the LCA reflects the actual work location, since the DOL requires a separate LCA for each worksite, and a mismatch can invalidate your visa documentation.
Prepare your I-94 and status records before the consulate
If you've held a prior U.S. visa, download your complete I-94 history from the CBP portal before your consulate appointment. Consular officers reviewing PM applications often ask about previous U.S. work authorization, and gaps or unexplained entries can trigger administrative processing.
E-3 Visa Senior Project Management: Frequently Asked Questions
How do I find Senior Project Management jobs with E-3 visa sponsorship?
Migrate Mate is built specifically for Australian professionals searching for E-3 visa sponsorship roles in the U.S. Filter by job title and location to surface employers actively hiring for Senior Project Management positions who are familiar with the E-3 process. Standard job boards don't filter by visa sponsorship willingness, which means a lot of wasted applications.
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 Senior Project Management role qualify as a specialty occupation for the E-3?
It can, but it's not automatic. The role must require at least a bachelor's degree in a specific field, such as engineering, construction management, business administration, or information systems, not just any degree. Generic management roles that accept any degree field often fail the specialty occupation test at the consulate. Your job offer letter and supporting documentation should explicitly tie the role's duties to a theoretical body of knowledge in a defined discipline.
How does the E-3 compare to the H-1B for Senior Project Management professionals?
The E-3 has no annual lottery and no numerical cap, so you can apply any time of year once you have a job offer. The H-1B visa requires entering a random lottery in March for an October start date, and selection is not guaranteed. For Australian project managers, the E-3 is a faster and more predictable route. Both visas require the employer to file an LCA with the DOL certifying prevailing wage compliance before the application proceeds.
Can I change employers or projects on an E-3 as a Senior Project Manager?
Yes, but you need a new LCA and, in most cases, a new E-3 visa before starting with the new employer. If you're already in the U.S. in E-3 status, you can begin working for the new employer once the new LCA is certified and the visa is filed, though the consulate appointment requirement adds complexity. Project managers who frequently move between firms should plan three to four months of lead time for each transition to avoid gaps in work authorization.