Traffic Engineering Business Leader

WSP is seeking a Traffic Engineering Business Leader for their Minneapolis, Minnesota office.

The Traffic Engineering Business Leader will be a member of WSP's Minneapolis, MN Traffic/ITS Team, responsible for providing project delivery and client management to a wide variety of clients and project scopes.

The primary function of the Traffic Engineering Business Leader is to focus on establishing and developing client networks, identifying and positioning WSP opportunities for potential contracts, capturing and managing those opportunities through effective proposal generation, and then managing these projects throughout their life cycles.

The Traffic Engineering Business Leader will have an opportunity to impact all elements of WSP Minnesota's traffic engineering business and contribute to WSP's success through management skills, technical expertise, client relationships, and effectively working with other WSP offices in the Midwest Region.

Responsibilities:

• Provide leadership, oversight, and overall management of traffic-related engineering projects and studies throughout the state of Minnesota.
• Identify potential clients in the Midwest region to establish working relationships and identify traffic engineering opportunities.
• Provide assistance and technical expertise to traffic-related engineering projects within the Midwest region.
• Represent the firm in the market through involvement in client and industry events and associations to promote WSP's capabilities, gather market intelligence, and develop a pipeline of opportunities.
• Assist in growth and development of the Traffic team by collaborating with the local WSP technical leads, regional technical leads, and meeting with clients to develop and expand work, and strategic teaming partners.
• Identify opportunities for Traffic service offerings in existing and new markets, work with the talent acquisition team to identify key hires and grow our business.
• Coordinate with other Regional Traffic leaders throughout the country to identify workshare opportunities.
• Manage tasks as part of project development, including technical analysis, plan and report production.
• Interface with staff from a range of other disciplines (civil, planning, structures, geotechnical, facilities, etc.) to support a diverse range of projects across business lines.
• Improve overall quality and delivery of projects throughout the Traffic Engineering discipline.
• Assist in supporting agency coordination, permitting, and public participation activities.
• Anticipate medium and long-term client needs, industry dynamics, and changing market conditions, develop strategic and action plans to address changing market conditions.
• Leading pursuits and proposal development, presentations, manpower and fee estimates.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in civil engineering (traffic emphasized) or other related field.
• Minimum of 12 years of experience in traffic engineering projects.
• Minimum 7 years leading and managing traffic engineering projects.
• Proven ability to manage own workload and balance multiple simultaneous projects.
• Deep understanding of public sector transportation/traffic project procurement across multiple agencies.
• Ability to effectively lead proposal development and ability to form consultant partnerships.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Proven success in a leadership role.
• Strong interpersonal and team building skills.
• Experience in leading traffic corridor studies and producing high-quality analysis, alternatives high-level design, and final reports.
• Strong technical skills relevant to traffic design and analysis, including:
• Long range strategic plans
• Multimodal traffic design/planning
• Safety studies (e.g., road safety audits)
• ICE Reports and warrant analysis.

Benefits:

WSP provides a comprehensive suite of benefits focused on providing health and financial stability throughout the employee's career. These benefits include coverage related to medical, dental, vision, disability, and life; retirement savings; paid sick leave; paid vacation (or other personal time); paid parental leave; and paid time off for purposes of bereavement, voting, and/or attendance at naturalization proceedings.

Compensation:

Expected Salary: $107,700 - $181,900