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WSP in the U.S. · 1 week ago

Lead Consultant, Advisory Services

Seattle, WA

Full-time

Onsite

Mid, Senior Level

$102K/yr - $182K/yr

7+ years exp

WSP is a leading engineering and professional services firm dedicated to transforming the business of infrastructure across various sectors. They are seeking a Lead Consultant in Advisory Services to support projects, manage deliverables, and develop relationships with clients while contributing to the future growth of the nation’s built environment.

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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

Process improvementCapital deliveryProject Management ProfessionalLean Six-Sigma certificationProsci certificationTechnical knowledgeCommunication skillsInterpersonal skillsTeam playerMentorship

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)