# Deputy Project Manager - Major Municipal Utility Programs **Company**: WSP **Location**: Los Angeles, CA **Work arrangement**: hybrid **Experience**: senior **Job type**: full-time **Salary**: $102,200 - $182,200 **Category**: Engineering **Industry**: Consulting **Apply**: https://emit.fa.ca3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/CandidateExperience/en/sites/CX_2001/job/99099?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/job/deputy-project-manager-major-municipal-utility-3e429cf8-407/ ## Description WSP is seeking a Deputy Project Manager - Major Municipal Utility Programs to support large utility accounts in Southern California. The successful candidate will combine an engineering foundation with strong project-management discipline. The role involves leading the day-to-day administration, commercial management, technical coordination, and client delivery of multiple concurrent task orders under an on-call professional services contract. **Your Impact** - Serve as deputy to the senior program and account leadership team for a major municipal utility client. - Manage assigned task orders from proposal and authorization through kickoff, execution, invoicing, modification, closeout, and lessons learned. - Act as a responsive day-to-day point of coordination among the client, WSP technical teams, project accountants, contract administrators, leadership, and subconsultants. - Develop and maintain clear task-order scopes, assumptions, deliverables, work breakdown structures, staffing plans, cost estimates, schedules, and responsibility matrices. - Lead project kickoffs, recurring client meetings, internal coordination calls, schedule reviews, financial reviews, risk discussions, and action-item follow-up. - Prepare concise agendas, meeting minutes, executive summaries, monthly progress reports, decision logs, action trackers, risk registers, and leadership briefings. - Monitor labor hours, revenue, backlog, burn rates, invoicing percentages, expenses, subconsultant commitments, estimate-to-complete, estimate-at-completion, margin, and remaining authorized capacity. - Partner closely with project accounting to reconcile budgets and invoices, maintain alignment between client task structures and internal systems, resolve billing discrepancies, and support timely collections. - Identify scope growth, staffing changes, schedule impacts, and commercial exposure early; prepare task-order modification inputs, change documentation, recovery plans, and management recommendations. - Coordinate multidisciplinary engineering and advisory teams across electrical, civil, structural, mechanical, environmental, construction management, utility operations, and business advisory disciplines. - Integrate subconsultants into project plans, schedules, budgets, reporting, quality reviews, invoicing, and client communications while preserving clear WSP accountability. - Coordinate personnel approvals, onboarding, background-check requirements, training prerequisites, travel planning, and other client-specific compliance or access needs. - Maintain disciplined document control and auditable project records, including approvals, notices to proceed, contractual correspondence, deliverable reviews, invoice support, and closeout evidence. - Support quality-control planning and verify that deliverables receive appropriate technical, management, and editorial reviews before client submission. - Escalate safety, quality, schedule, budget, contractual, resource, and client-relationship concerns with clear options and recommended actions. - Support proposals, task-order responses, fee development, staffing strategies, client presentations, capture planning, and account-growth initiatives. - Help translate project-delivery performance into stronger client relationships, repeat work, and future opportunities without losing focus on current commitments. - Mentor project coordinators and emerging project managers and help standardize practical tools, templates, and controls across the account. - Exercise responsible and ethical decision-making regarding company funds, resources, client information, and professional conduct, and comply with WSP policies and procedures. - Perform additional responsibilities as required by business needs. **Required Qualifications** - Bachelor's degree in engineering or a closely related technical field. Electrical Engineering is strongly preferred; Civil, Mechanical, Structural, Environmental, Industrial, Construction, or other relevant backgrounds will be considered. - 7+ years of progressive experience in engineering consulting, utility infrastructure, capital programs, project delivery, or a comparable owner/consultant environment, including meaningful project-management responsibility. - Experience managing multiple concurrent projects, work orders, or task orders with responsibility for scope, schedule, budget, staffing, quality, risk, and client communications. - Demonstrated ability to understand technical engineering work well enough to coordinate discipline leads, challenge assumptions, identify interfaces, and communicate issues accurately without needing to be the technical designer for every assignment. - Strong commercial and financial-management capability, including labor planning, forecasting, invoice review, budget reconciliation, change management, subconsultant tracking, and profitability awareness. - Experience developing and maintaining project schedules, action logs, risk registers, decision logs, staffing plans, cost estimates, and monthly status reports. - Ability to organize incomplete or conflicting information, establish a practical path forward, and drive decisions and follow-up across large stakeholder groups. - Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to produce concise client-ready correspondence, meeting materials, executive summaries, and management recommendations. - Professional presence and judgment appropriate for regular interaction with a large public-sector utility, executive stakeholders, technical specialists, contract administrators, and project accountants. - Advanced proficiency with Microsoft Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Teams; working knowledge of scheduling and project-controls tools such as Microsoft Project or Primavera P6. - Ability to work in Southern California and attend in-person client meetings, project sites, and WSP offices as project needs require. - Ability to travel periodically for project meetings, site activities, supplier or factory inspections, and team coordination. **Preferred Qualifications** - Project Management Professional certification or comparable formal project-management training. - Experience supporting a municipal utility, public agency, or large regulated utility under an on-call, master-services, or task-order contract. - Experience with electric transmission, distribution, substations, generation, grid modernization, renewable energy, energy storage, water infrastructure, facilities, or utility asset-management programs. - Experience with engineering design, procurement, construction support, commissioning, inspection, owner’s engineering, or program-management assignments. - Experience managing subconsultants and coordinating geographically dispersed or international technical teams. - Experience with public-sector contract administration, formal personnel approvals, small/diverse business participation reporting, and auditable invoicing requirements. - Experience supporting proposals, capture planning, account planning, and client relationship development. - Master’s degree in engineering, business, construction management, or a related field. **WSP 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 (all locations): $102,200 - $182,200 For more fresh new jobs, check out [yubhub.co](https://yubhub.co/). ## Skills ### Required - engineering - project management - commercial management - technical coordination - client delivery - Microsoft Excel - Word - PowerPoint - Outlook - Teams - Microsoft Project - Primavera P6 ### Nice to have - Project Management Professional certification - municipal utility - public agency - large regulated utility - electric transmission - distribution - substations - generation - grid modernization - renewable energy - energy storage - water infrastructure - facilities - utility asset-management programs --- Source: [Apply at emit.fa.ca3.oraclecloud.com](https://emit.fa.ca3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/CandidateExperience/en/sites/CX_2001/job/99099?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)