Consulting OPT Jobs in Louisiana

INTRODUCTION

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 initiating a search for a Project Manager. As a Project Manager 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 teams of Engineers, Designers and other staff through project completion;
• Lead the teams through the successful completion of medium to large projects while managing more than one project at a time;
• Prepare project work plans, proposals, and schedules, and obtain management/client approval;
• Maintain regular communication 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;
• Proactively track, analyze and report on actual performance against the plan, and prepare cost and schedule reporting, both for clients and as part of internal reporting processes. Address change management matters promptly and professionally with clients and internal departments;
• Internal reporting includes: Monthly project financial forecast, project budget maintenance, key performance indicator monitoring;
• Analyze project management and project delivery risks, establish contingency plans and identify trigger events and responsibility for initiating mitigating action;
• Lead and manage business development initiatives including Requests for Qualifications and Requests for Proposals; with input from others, 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;
• Provide general administrative and technical leadership for the project; Maintain all project records and monitor correspondence;
• Schedule and facilitate all project meetings required to successfully coordinate work activity;
• Administer subconsultant agreements as assigned;
• Implement and manage the kW Quality Control Plan for each project;
• Proactively track and report workload management throughout the project;
• Management of client and subconsultant invoicing.

Who You Are

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree;
• 3+ 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.

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.