# Planning Local Business Line Leader

**Company**: WSP USA, Inc.
**Location**: Pittsburgh, PA
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Consulting
**Industry**: Consulting

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## Description

WSP USA, Inc. is seeking a Local Business Leader to oversee its Central and Western Pennsylvania Planning Practice as a Vice President in Transportation Planning. The successful candidate will work out of the Pittsburgh office and be responsible for organizing, planning, and growing Advisory & Planning services in western and central Pennsylvania.

**Your Impact**

- Provide proactive and strategic leadership for the planning discipline and function.

- Manage multi-disciplinary project teams for siting, impact assessment, approval, and permitting projects.

- Lead large-scale transportation planning projects, ensuring contributors know their roles and schedules, and overseeing project budgets and profitability.

- Grow a client base for high-level Transportation Planning services and identify business development opportunities.

- Foster compliance with Federal, State, and Local Agency laws, policies, and regulatory requirements.

- Support the long-term strategy, growth, and pipeline development of Transportation Planning work.

- Lead technical aspects of contract negotiation, presentations, and meetings.

- Prepare annual updates to business tactical action plans.

- Ensure planning discipline certifications and value proposition are developed and improved.

- Conduct needs analyses and client value surveys.

- Schedule planning discipline meetings and provide updates.

- Serve as a liaison to external entities, including Federal, State, and Local Agencies, clients, and subcontractors.

- Develop proposal and project scopes, timelines, pricing, and budgetary metrics.

- Interpret and summarize data to minimize impacts to the community, population, local economy, and environment.

- Manage and provide performance guidance to assigned staff.

- Remain current in the latest transportation planning subject matter, practices, regulations, and techniques.

- Collaborate with professionals to provide trusted advisor services and future-ready solutions.

- Exercise responsible and ethical decision-making.

**Who You Are**

- A minimum of 12 years of progressively responsible experience in transportation planning, environmental planning, or policy-related services.

- A Bachelor’s degree in Transportation Planning, Urban Planning, Environmental Planning, Civil Engineering, Public Policy, or a related field.

- Experience with key clients, including Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT), Bureau of Public Transportation (BPT), Pittsburgh Regional Transit (PRT), local municipalities, metropolitan planning organizations (MPOs), and Rural Planning Organizations (RPOs).

- Strong communication skills, a high level of energy, enthusiasm, and a positive attitude.

- Proficiency with Microsoft Office programs and experience with MicroStation and/or GIS programs.

- Ability to work in the United States and possession of a valid driver’s license.

**Preferred Qualifications**

- Master’s Degree.

- Essential professional licensure/certification (e.g., AICP Certification, PMP, PE License).

## Skills

### Required
- Transportation Planning
- Environmental Planning
- Project Management
- Microsoft Office
- MicroStation
- GIS

### Nice to have
- Master's Degree
- AICP Certification
- PMP
- PE License

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