WSP

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Senior Vice President, Transportation Planning

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Job Summary

Lead a transportation planning discipline for WSP USA’s Seattle office, directing and developing a team of 10–15 professionals. Provide strategic thought leadership across transit, complete streets, resilience planning, and data-driven transportation analysis. Oversee delivery of complex planning projects, budgets, quality, compliance, proposals, and client pursuits—ensuring approvals, permitting, and regulatory conclusions minimize community impacts.

Location: Seattle

Workplace: Onsite

Employment Type: Full time

Job Function: Executive & General Management

Seniority: Sr. Director level

Key Responsibilities

•Provide group direction and thought leadership across emerging transportation planning areas, including transit, complete streets, and resilience planning.
•Oversee use and quality of transportation and traffic data to assess modal operations and impacts, using multiple data sources and visualization inputs.
•Lead larger, more complex transportation planning projects, including budgets, profitability/performance tracking, and supervision of subcontractors, contracts, and employees.
•Manage multi-disciplinary project teams across execution and delivery phases such as siting, impact assessment, approval, and permitting.
•Drive long-term strategy and growth for transportation planning work, including pursuit strategy, proposal development, technical contract negotiations, and client base development.

Travel: Low travel

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 175,600 - 280,100 annually

Perks:Health InsuranceDentalVisionDisabilityLife InsuranceRetirement SavingsPaid LeaveParental Leave

Key Requirements

•Bachelor’s degree in Transportation Planning, Civil Engineering, Urban Planning, or a related field (or equivalent experience).
•15+ years of corporate experience in transportation planning, including general and master plans, zoning code updates, public involvement, and regulatory compliance.
•Strong knowledge of approval zoning laws, permitting requirements, notification and compliance practices, and regional/state/federal regulatory frameworks.
•Excellent leadership and interpersonal communication skills for interacting effectively with employees at all levels.
•Demonstrated analytical skills and ability to elicit cooperation from senior management, clients, and staff without formal hierarchy.

Experience:15+ yearsTransportation planning

Education:Bachelor's in Transportation Planning, Civil Engineering, Urban Planning

Skills:LeadershipInterpersonal communicationStrategic thinkingAnalytical skillsStakeholder management

Certifications:PEAICP

Tech Stack:Data analysisGPSData analytics

Eligibility

Work Authorization:Authorization required. Sponsorship not provided.

Company Brief

WSP

Global professional services firm providing engineering, consulting, and technical services across infrastructure, environment, buildings, transportation, and energy sectors for public- and private-sector clients worldwide.

Industry: Professional Services

Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)

Revenue: USD 1B+

Growth: Public Company

Valuation: Public Company (Market Cap in USD)

Funding: IPO / Publicly Listed

Headquarters: Montreal, Canada

Founded: 1959

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