at WSP USA in Chicago, Illinois, United States
Job Description
This Opportunity
WSP currently has an Engineering Project Manager career opportunity to support our remote Applied Solutions practice, which provides project management, construction management, and project controls support for environmental engineering and construction projects. This full-time position can be located anywhere in the United States.
The full-time Engineering Project Manager will lead a team of technical resources to execute commercial and federal projects primarily focused on environmental, sustainable, and remediation efforts. This position will provide exposure to various delivery models, such as engineering-procurement-construction-management (EPCM), engineering-procurement-construction (EPC), design-build, and design-bid-build.
This is an excellent opportunity for someone interested working closely with clients and leading a team of talented resources to achieve project objectives. We are dedicated to helping individuals grow and will provide strong mentorship to allow you to develop your project management skills. We’d love you to join our team of friendly, hard-working, dedicated, and collaborative professionals.
Your Impact
- Communicating with clients to understand their objectives and assembling and leading a team of resources to successfully achieve those objectives within scope, schedule, budget, and safety requirements.
- Being the primary point of contact with clients and ensuring satisfactory progress is being made and, if necessary, promptly implementing corrective actions.
- Performing project related field tasks, attending key meetings, coordinating and overseeing subcontractors, providing project related field documentation, and performing a variety of technical activities during project planning, design, and construction.
- Developing and maintaining a project-specific risk register and proactively managing issues from kick-off through closeout.
- Developing and maintaining comprehensive project schedules.
- Tracking project expenditures and accurately forecasting estimated costs at completion.
- Developing client and internal project reports to ensure projects are on schedule, on budget, performed safely, and comply with quality requirements.
- Coordinating the preparation and review of deliverables.
- Providing technical assistance such as interpreting specifications and applying technical standards to project-specific applications.
- Performing periodic site visits to confirm progress conforms to project’s requirements.
- Reviewing and approving contractor/subcontractor payment applications. Maintaining up-to-date records, including correspondence, design direction, progress submittals, schedules, meeting documents, shop drawing review, test reports, as-built records, and other documents necessary to document engineering activities.
- Ensuring all project documents are stored on the designated shared drive and not on personal computers. Understanding and implementing document management and storage procedures for each project, as per policy.
Who You Are
Required Qualifications
- 7 – 10 years + of relevant project management experience.
- Undergraduate degree in engineering, construction management, related degree, or equivalent experience in an engineering or construction-related position.
- Experience assembling and managing project teams to complete contract requirements, while ensuring safety, quality, cost, and schedule goals are achieved.
- Experience with construction plans and specifications and relating that to project scope, schedule, and cost.
- Experience being responsible for project financial performance and tracking and reporting on expenditures as well as forecasting estimated costs to complete.
- Self motivated with excellent verbal/written communication, problem solving, conflict resolution and decision-making skills.
- Ability to liaise between designers, owners, contractors, and end-users.
- Certifications preferred (PE, DBIA, PMP, CCM, etc.).
- Must pass background check
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.
www.wsp.com
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.
