WSP · 1 month ago
Lead Consultant, Advisory Services
Seattle, WA
Full-time
Onsite
Mid, Senior Level
$102K/yr - $182K/yr
7+ years expWSP USA is a leading engineering and professional services firm dedicated to transforming the business of infrastructure. The Lead Consultant in Advisory Services will support projects by ensuring quality control, managing project performance, and developing actionable improvement roadmaps while leading client interactions and mentoring junior staff.
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Responsibilities
Support Advisory Services projects within the company, ensuring project management, budget, work product, quality control and financial performance meet company standard
Develop high quality technical and professional deliverables on projects and proposals
Directs and oversees tasks for deliverable on projects and provides guidance to junior staff
Perform complex qualitative and quantitative analysis
Leads client meetings and develop trusted relationships
Ability to evaluate current state across people, processes and ideally technology
Recommend data driven improvements to achieve future state
Develop and drive to completion action-oriented improvement roadmaps
Translate client concerns into actionable scopes, sequences of activities and associated deliverables
Familiarity with industry standard practices, business process mapping notation and methodologies
Understanding of capital delivery processes, particularly in a transit and rail, roadways and/or power industry context. This would include moving through planning, design, procurement, construction, handover to operations
Navigate ambiguous environments and complex conversations with clients and leadership to define scope and keep the project on track
Ability to manage project and project team, including time management and working to deadlines
Ability to work in a matrixed environment and experience with influencing without authority
Manages scope, schedule and budget for smaller projects
Contribute to thought leadership and subject matter collateral development
Keeps up-to-date with technical knowledge of current and emerging practices
Seek opportunities to serve as mentor to junior staff
Lead or significantly contribute to proposal preparation and marketing activities
Proactively identify technical issues and take actions to mitigate risk
Adhere to WSP's Code of Conduct and related policies and procedures
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's Degree in relevant field
Experience in designing and implementing process improvement practices
7 to 10 years of directly relevant experience, particularly capital delivery for transit and rail, roadways and/or power industry
Proven experience in consulting or a comparable role in developing organizational capability and performance improvement from within an organization
Strong written and oral communication skills
Strong interpersonal skills and high emotional intelligence
Hands-on leader, collaborator, individual contributor and strong team player, depending on context
Preferred
Proven experience in consulting or a comparable role in developing organizational capability, performance improvement and/or process improvement from within an organization
Understanding of government agency operations
Familiarity with technological solutions and tools that support automation and decision making within the public works environment
Project Management Professional (PMP)
Lean Six-Sigma certification (or similar)
Prosci certification (or similar)
Benefits
Coverage related to medical, dental, vision, disability, and life
Retirement savings
Paid sick leave
Paid vacation (or other personal time)
Paid parental leave
Paid time off for purposes of bereavement, voting, and/or attendance at naturalization proceedings
Company
WSP
We are one of the world’s leading professional services firms, uniting our engineering, advisory and science-based expertise to shape communities to advance humanity.
Founded in 2011New York, New York, USA
10001+ employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$40.25MKey Investors
OneWest Bank
2013-09-02Corporate Round· $40.25M
Leadership Team
Michael Winterbottom
Vice President, RUC Operations & Analytics
Christopher Uckotter
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