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Get Access To All JobsAccelerate possibilities. The WSP Data Center CoE (Center of Excellence) is growing, and we’re looking for smart, responsive, collaborative people to join us. Our CoE is 100% focused on data centers—supporting the world’s leading AI and cloud infrastructure companies. You’ll work to help tackle our clients’ biggest challenges: Where to build? How to secure power and water? How to develop responsibly and become a valued part of the community? AI is transforming life from scientific discoveries to smarter transportation and more sustainable communities. Data centers make it possible.
With us, you can build impact, deliver remarkable projects, and grow your career while shaping the future of the data center industry.
This Opportunity
WSP is currently looking for a Data Center Project Manager, Lead Consultant for our Herndon, VA office. As a Data Center Project Manager, Lead Consultant 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.
Your Impact
- 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
Who You Are
The ideal candidate has experience managing multiple projects simultaneously in an engineering consulting environment. Candidate thrives in an extremely fast-paced and ever-changing environment requiring flexibility, pivoting, and an open-minded approach and has experience working in a client-facing role requiring extensive communication and knowledge of costing, budgets, and scheduling and/or resourcing.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree
- 7+ 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): $149,000-$182,000
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.
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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.
Accelerate possibilities. The WSP Data Center CoE (Center of Excellence) is growing, and we’re looking for smart, responsive, collaborative people to join us. Our CoE is 100% focused on data centers—supporting the world’s leading AI and cloud infrastructure companies. You’ll work to help tackle our clients’ biggest challenges: Where to build? How to secure power and water? How to develop responsibly and become a valued part of the community? AI is transforming life from scientific discoveries to smarter transportation and more sustainable communities. Data centers make it possible.
With us, you can build impact, deliver remarkable projects, and grow your career while shaping the future of the data center industry.
This Opportunity
WSP is currently looking for a Data Center Project Manager, Lead Consultant for our Herndon, VA office. As a Data Center Project Manager, Lead Consultant 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.
Your Impact
- 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
Who You Are
The ideal candidate has experience managing multiple projects simultaneously in an engineering consulting environment. Candidate thrives in an extremely fast-paced and ever-changing environment requiring flexibility, pivoting, and an open-minded approach and has experience working in a client-facing role requiring extensive communication and knowledge of costing, budgets, and scheduling and/or resourcing.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree
- 7+ 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): $149,000-$182,000
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.
LI-GA1
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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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding H-1B Visa Sponsorship as a Consulting Project Manager
Align your degree to project management duties
USCIS evaluates whether your degree field directly relates to the role's core duties. Frame your credentials around business analysis, organizational management, or operations rather than general leadership, since reviewers scrutinize consulting roles for specialty occupation eligibility.
Search LCA filings for active sponsors
Use the OFLC Wage Search to identify consulting firms that have recently certified LCAs for project management positions. Employers with multiple certified LCAs signal established H-1B processes, reducing your risk of a first-time filing delay.
Find sponsors through Migrate Mate
Migrate Mate shows verified H-1B sponsors hiring for consulting and project management roles, so you're applying to employers with confirmed filing history rather than guessing at sponsorship willingness from generic job postings.
Confirm each worksite gets its own LCA
Consulting roles frequently involve client sites across multiple locations. Each distinct worksite requires a separately certified LCA from DOL before you can work there, so raise this with your employer during offer negotiations to avoid compliance gaps.
Review the O*NET profile before interviews
O*NET lists the specific tasks, knowledge areas, and skill requirements for project management occupations. Mapping your resume and interview answers to these defined competencies strengthens the specialty occupation argument in your employer's I-129 petition.
Clarify cap-subject status with your employer
Most consulting firms are cap-subject employers, meaning your petition enters the annual H-1B selection process. Confirm this early, since selection rules have changed recently and your employer's HR team may be working from outdated timelines when setting your start date.
H-1B Visa Consulting Project Manager: Frequently Asked Questions
Does a Consulting Project Manager role qualify as an H-1B specialty occupation?
Yes, consulting project management typically qualifies as a specialty occupation when the position requires at least a bachelor's degree in business, management, information systems, or a directly related field. USCIS scrutinizes consulting roles carefully, so your employer's job description must clearly tie the degree requirement to the specific duties performed, not just general business knowledge.
How do I find consulting firms that actively sponsor H-1B visas for project managers?
Migrate Mate lists employers with verified H-1B filing history for consulting and project management roles, letting you target sponsors with proven processes. You can also search the OFLC Wage Search for recently certified LCAs under project management occupation codes to identify firms that have sponsored similar positions within the past year.
What happens to my H-1B status if my consulting project ends early?
Your H-1B status is tied to your sponsoring employer, not to a specific project. If your engagement ends and your employer has no other work for you, your status is at risk. You have a 60-day grace period after losing H-1B employment to find a new sponsor, change status, or depart the country, so act quickly.
Do I need a new LCA each time I'm placed at a different client site?
Yes. Each client worksite where you perform H-1B work requires a separately certified LCA from DOL, covering the prevailing wage for that specific location. Consulting firms with active H-1B programs typically have processes for filing worksite-specific LCAs, but you should confirm this during the offer stage to avoid gaps between project placements.
Can my consulting employer sponsor me for a green card while I'm on H-1B?
Yes. The H-1B allows dual intent, meaning you can pursue permanent residence without jeopardizing your nonimmigrant status. Many consulting employers initiate PERM labor certification for project managers who demonstrate strong performance. Starting the green card process early matters because employment-based priority dates can involve multi-year waits depending on your country of birth.