Description
WSP is seeking a Senior Program Director for our Power & Energy Program Management Office in Tulsa, OK. The successful candidate will provide leadership, definition, and oversight for the consistent delivery of large-scale, highly complex programs within the Extra High Voltage (EHV) Transmission and Distribution sector.
Your Impact
- Lead the most complex and largest scale projects within the organization, ensuring contributors know what they are required to do and by when.
- Foster effective and proactive strategies to engage client and project stakeholders at all levels.
- Participate in the technical aspects of contract negotiation, presentations, and meetings.
- Serve as a senior day-to-day client interface.
- Coordinate closely with client representatives, internal delivery teams, functional leads, subcontractors, and external stakeholders.
- Accountable for the profitable performance and successful completion of all individual projects within the specified area or portfolio.
- Provide leadership to multidisciplinary project teams distributed across multiple offices and project locations.
- Provide performance guidance and proactive leadership to assigned managers and staff.
- Develop, maintain, and update Project Initiation and governance documentation.
- Lead project management discipline meetings.
- Lead the development of project recovery plans.
- Lead and support integrated project controls and portfolio governance activities.
- Ensure regular project and portfolio reporting and updates are provided to client representatives.
- Ensure the completion of all formal project closeout activities.
- Collaborate with professionals and leadership from a variety of disciplines.
- Exercise responsible and ethical decision-making.
Who You Are
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering, science, or a related major, or equivalent experience.
- 15+ years of relevant post-education experience in a project or program management role.
- Advanced-level understanding of project delivery within the A/E/C industry.
- Advanced knowledge and proficiency with analytical and organizational skills.
- Strong working knowledge of corporate project management principles.
- Demonstrated exceptional ability with establishing, implementing, and managing multiple larger scale/complex projects.
- Excellent self-leadership and interpersonal communication skills.
- Strategic lateral thinking and strong analytical skills.
- Ability to elicit cooperation from a wide variety of sources.
- Demonstrated experience working in an embedded or highly integrated client-service environment.
- Advanced knowledge and proficiency with technical writing, office automation, and PM tools.
- Proven track record of upholding workplace safety.
- Strong ability to quickly adapt to changing client priorities.
WSP Benefits
- Medical, dental, vision, disability, and life coverage
- Retirement savings
- Paid sick leave
- Paid vacation
- Paid parental leave
- Paid time off for purposes of bereavement, voting, and/or attendance at naturalization proceedings
Compensation
- Expected Salary: $168,900 - $323,900