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WSP is seeking a Project Controls Team Leader to join our growing Earth & Environment (E&E) Texas & Louisiana (TXLA) Regional Team.
As a key member of the Regional Leadership Team, the Project Controls Team Leader will play a critical role in advancing regional strategic objectives and achieving annual business plan goals and performance targets. This position combines operational leadership, people management, and project delivery responsibilities, providing an opportunity to influence both regional performance and project success.
As the Project Controls Team Leader, you will provide strategic, operational, and technical leadership to ensure successful project delivery and financial performance across the Texas and Louisiana region. You will partner closely with Project Managers, technical leaders, and regional leadership to drive project excellence, operational efficiency, and business growth. The Project Controls Team Leader will be responsible for leading and developing a team of project controls professionals who support projects throughout the entire project lifecycle, including:
- Project Initiation
- Planning
- Execution
- Monitoring and Control
- Project Closeout
The team supports a diverse portfolio of consulting projects within the Earth & Environment business, including but not limited to:
- Site characterization and remediation
- Environmental permitting and planning
- Civil engineering
- Geotechnical and ground engineering services
In this hybrid leadership role, the Project Controls Team Leader will drive excellence in project planning, financial performance, scheduling, forecasting, risk management, and project governance while remaining actively engaged in project execution and client service delivery.
Your Impact
- Lead and manage the Project Controls Team, providing oversight of project financial performance, scheduling, invoicing, and cash collection across the Texas and Louisiana portfolio of clients and projects.
- Provide leadership, mentorship, and professional development for the Project Controls Team.
- Establish and promote project controls best practices, processes, and performance standards across the region.
- Partner with project managers, technical leaders, and business leaders to improve project performance and operational efficiency.
- Monitor project financials, schedules, resource utilization, forecasting, and key performance indicators.
- Support strategic planning and business initiatives as a member of the Regional Leadership Team.
- Foster a high-performing culture of accountability, collaboration, continuous improvement, and client-focused delivery.
- Ensure consistent implementation of project controls methodologies and compliance with WSP policies and procedures.
- Contribute to successful project delivery while maintaining strong client relationships and supporting business growth objectives.
- Develop, maintain, and oversee program and project schedules; review, monitor, and evaluate contractor and consultant schedules, identifying cost and schedule risks and recommending solutions to Project Managers.
- Establish and implement project controls standards, processes, and best practices, including change management, cost and schedule controls, forecasting, reporting, and performance measurement across regional initiatives.
- Prepare and oversee project cost estimates, budgets, forecasts, cash flow analyses, financial models, and other performance projections; ensure effective project accounting and earned value management practices.
- Develop and implement analytics tools, dashboards, and key performance indicators (KPIs) that provide Project Managers, regional leadership, and clients with actionable insights to support informed decision-making.
- Prepare and deliver project performance reports, executive summaries, client presentations, and other communications; effectively communicate complex project information to technical, business, and executive audiences.
- Provide oversight of procurement and vendor management activities, including contractor performance, change order administration, punch list completion, project closeout, and contract compliance; support contract review and negotiation activities as needed.
- Perform other duties, responsibilities, and assignments as required.
Who You Are
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in business administration, Finance, Environmental Science or similar with a background in environmental, science, or engineering.
- 7+ years of demonstrated post-education experience of relevant skills including financial controls, finance/accounting, scheduling, forecasting or related functions on capital projects, with demonstrated ability to guide teams and coordinate across disciplines.
- 3-5 years of demonstrated experience leading, mentoring, supervising, and developing multidisciplinary project controls professionals.
- Strong knowledge of project management principles.
- Excellent organizational skills.
- Exceptional attention to detail and accuracy.
- Proven ability to meet tight deadlines, manage conflicting priorities, and work well under pressure in a rapidly changing environment.
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills.
- Ability to learn processes quickly and prioritize client requirements.
- Strong team player, self-motivated, and proactive thinker with a flexible can-do attitude.
- Advanced proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite, including Excel (pivot tables, dashboards, and financial analysis), Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Project; familiarity with Power BI, Adobe Acrobat, and Oracle based project management and financial systems.
- Ability to uphold and promote workplace safety and ability to abide by WSP’s health, safety, and drug/alcohol and harassment policies.
- Ability and willingness to work schedules conducive to project-specific requirements that may extend beyond the typical workweek.
Other duties as required and assigned.
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 is seeking a Project Controls Team Leader to join our growing Earth & Environment (E&E) Texas & Louisiana (TXLA) Regional Team.
As a key member of the Regional Leadership Team, the Project Controls Team Leader will play a critical role in advancing regional strategic objectives and achieving annual business plan goals and performance targets. This position combines operational leadership, people management, and project delivery responsibilities, providing an opportunity to influence both regional performance and project success.
As the Project Controls Team Leader, you will provide strategic, operational, and technical leadership to ensure successful project delivery and financial performance across the Texas and Louisiana region. You will partner closely with Project Managers, technical leaders, and regional leadership to drive project excellence, operational efficiency, and business growth. The Project Controls Team Leader will be responsible for leading and developing a team of project controls professionals who support projects throughout the entire project lifecycle, including:
- Project Initiation
- Planning
- Execution
- Monitoring and Control
- Project Closeout
The team supports a diverse portfolio of consulting projects within the Earth & Environment business, including but not limited to:
- Site characterization and remediation
- Environmental permitting and planning
- Civil engineering
- Geotechnical and ground engineering services
In this hybrid leadership role, the Project Controls Team Leader will drive excellence in project planning, financial performance, scheduling, forecasting, risk management, and project governance while remaining actively engaged in project execution and client service delivery.
Your Impact
- Lead and manage the Project Controls Team, providing oversight of project financial performance, scheduling, invoicing, and cash collection across the Texas and Louisiana portfolio of clients and projects.
- Provide leadership, mentorship, and professional development for the Project Controls Team.
- Establish and promote project controls best practices, processes, and performance standards across the region.
- Partner with project managers, technical leaders, and business leaders to improve project performance and operational efficiency.
- Monitor project financials, schedules, resource utilization, forecasting, and key performance indicators.
- Support strategic planning and business initiatives as a member of the Regional Leadership Team.
- Foster a high-performing culture of accountability, collaboration, continuous improvement, and client-focused delivery.
- Ensure consistent implementation of project controls methodologies and compliance with WSP policies and procedures.
- Contribute to successful project delivery while maintaining strong client relationships and supporting business growth objectives.
- Develop, maintain, and oversee program and project schedules; review, monitor, and evaluate contractor and consultant schedules, identifying cost and schedule risks and recommending solutions to Project Managers.
- Establish and implement project controls standards, processes, and best practices, including change management, cost and schedule controls, forecasting, reporting, and performance measurement across regional initiatives.
- Prepare and oversee project cost estimates, budgets, forecasts, cash flow analyses, financial models, and other performance projections; ensure effective project accounting and earned value management practices.
- Develop and implement analytics tools, dashboards, and key performance indicators (KPIs) that provide Project Managers, regional leadership, and clients with actionable insights to support informed decision-making.
- Prepare and deliver project performance reports, executive summaries, client presentations, and other communications; effectively communicate complex project information to technical, business, and executive audiences.
- Provide oversight of procurement and vendor management activities, including contractor performance, change order administration, punch list completion, project closeout, and contract compliance; support contract review and negotiation activities as needed.
- Perform other duties, responsibilities, and assignments as required.
Who You Are
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in business administration, Finance, Environmental Science or similar with a background in environmental, science, or engineering.
- 7+ years of demonstrated post-education experience of relevant skills including financial controls, finance/accounting, scheduling, forecasting or related functions on capital projects, with demonstrated ability to guide teams and coordinate across disciplines.
- 3-5 years of demonstrated experience leading, mentoring, supervising, and developing multidisciplinary project controls professionals.
- Strong knowledge of project management principles.
- Excellent organizational skills.
- Exceptional attention to detail and accuracy.
- Proven ability to meet tight deadlines, manage conflicting priorities, and work well under pressure in a rapidly changing environment.
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills.
- Ability to learn processes quickly and prioritize client requirements.
- Strong team player, self-motivated, and proactive thinker with a flexible can-do attitude.
- Advanced proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite, including Excel (pivot tables, dashboards, and financial analysis), Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Project; familiarity with Power BI, Adobe Acrobat, and Oracle based project management and financial systems.
- Ability to uphold and promote workplace safety and ability to abide by WSP’s health, safety, and drug/alcohol and harassment policies.
- Ability and willingness to work schedules conducive to project-specific requirements that may extend beyond the typical workweek.
Other duties as required and assigned.
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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Document your degree's field alignment
Your degree must directly relate to project leadership in your target industry. An engineering degree supports a Project Leader role in construction or manufacturing; a CS degree supports software delivery. Gather transcripts and credential evaluations before applying.
Target employers with cap-exempt status
Universities, nonprofit research institutions, and government-affiliated entities can file H-1B petitions outside the lottery cap year-round. Project Leader roles at these organizations let you bypass the April registration window entirely.
Filter employers by LCA filing history on Migrate Mate
Search Project Leader roles on Migrate Mate to see which employers have certified Labor Condition Applications with DOL for this title. That filing history confirms an employer's willingness and process knowledge before you apply.
Verify prevailing wage tier before accepting an offer
Run your offered salary against the OFLC Wage Search using the correct SOC code for project management in your industry. The LCA requires the employer to pay at least the prevailing wage, and a Level I offer on a senior-scope role is a common compliance risk.
Confirm the job description establishes specialty occupation
USCIS denies H-1B petitions when job duties are too general to require a specific degree. Ask your employer to frame the Project Leader description around technical deliverables, domain expertise, and degree-linked responsibilities rather than generic coordination tasks.
Time your start date around premium processing
If you're transitioning from OPT or another visa, request that your employer file with USCIS premium processing to get a decision within 15 business days. Standard processing can run several months, creating a gap between your current authorization and H-1B approval.
H-1B Visa Project Leader: Frequently Asked Questions
Does a Project Leader role qualify as a specialty occupation for H-1B purposes?
It depends on how the role is scoped. USCIS requires the position to normally require a bachelor's degree in a specific field. A Project Leader in software engineering, construction management, or biotech typically qualifies because the work demands domain expertise tied to a degree. A generalist coordination role without industry-specific technical requirements is more likely to face an RFE or denial.
Which employers sponsor H-1B visas for Project Leader positions?
Engineering and construction firms, enterprise technology companies, defense contractors, and management consulting firms are consistent H-1B sponsors for Project Leader roles. Migrate Mate surfaces employers with verified DOL Labor Condition Application filings for this job title, so you can focus applications on organizations that have already demonstrated H-1B sponsorship activity rather than cold-applying and asking HR.
How does the H-1B lottery affect my timeline as a Project Leader candidate?
USCIS opens H-1B cap registration each March for an April 1 start date. If you're selected, your employer can file the full petition and you can begin work October 1. If you're not selected, cap-exempt employers and O-1 visa eligibility are the two main alternatives. Project Leaders with demonstrated technical leadership and publications sometimes qualify for the O-1A extraordinary ability classification.
Can I switch employers while on H-1B as a Project Leader?
Yes. Under H-1B portability rules, you can start working for a new employer as soon as they file an H-1B transfer petition with USCIS, without waiting for approval. The new employer must file before your current authorized stay expires. The Project Leader job description at the new employer must still meet specialty occupation requirements or USCIS can deny the transfer.
What SOC code should my employer use for an H-1B Project Leader petition?
The correct SOC code depends on your industry. Construction project management typically maps to SOC 11-9021, while software and IT delivery roles often fall under 15-1299 or 11-3021. Your employer's attorney will confirm this during the LCA filing process. You can cross-reference the O*NET occupation profile for your specific role to verify which classification matches your actual job duties before the petition is prepared.