WSP

Project Delivery Associate (Mission Critical/Data Center)

WSP • $82K — $95K *
Troy, NY 12180In-Person
Technical Services
Less than 5 years of experience
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Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Management, or relevant field required.
  • 3-5 years experience in project delivery or related roles.
  • Ability to manage multiple deadlines and track project progress.
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
  • Proficient in MS Office applications; familiarity with Smartsheet is a plus.
  • Knowledge of cloud-based platforms like SharePoint and Dropbox is advantageous.
  • Strong self-motivation and willingness to learn new skills.

Responsibilities

  • Support the Operations Lead in meeting project requirements.
  • Coordinate with partners and monitor project reviews.
  • Oversee team performance and project execution risks.
  • Lead planning and negotiation sessions for key projects.
  • Manage corrective actions for challenged projects.
  • Facilitate independent research to enhance project operations.
  • Assist in project financial tracking and compliance upkeep.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health coverage (medical, dental, vision).
  • Disability and life insurance offerings.
  • Retirement savings plan options.
  • Paid sick leave and vacation time.
  • Parental leave provided.
  • Paid time off for bereavement, voting, and naturalization proceedings.
Full Job Description
Job Description

This Opportunity

WSP Data Centers team is seeking a Project Delivery Associate for the following kW offices: Troy, NY. The Project Delivery Associate is responsible for supporting the Operations Lead and Project Teams to ensure we are meeting all project requirements. They will take a proactive role assisting the Project Manager and project teams in moving the project forward and enhancing communication with the project team and Client and promoting and facilitating integration on the project.

Your Impact

Project Delivery Duties:

  • Coordinate with Project Delivery Partners to:


  • Monitor that appropriate Project Reviews are being conducted in the Business Line


  • Oversee PDs and confirm they are performing their duties


  • Identification of project execution risk


  • Evaluation of Project Manager performance


  • Identification of challenged projects tracking, financial; impacts and corrective action plans


  • Lead work planning and negotiations sessions for key projects.


  • Lead Readiness Reviews for large or high-risk projects


  • Ensure appropriate proactive project reviews are being conducted on high risk/large value/Alternative Delivery projects and any necessary follow up is done


  • Identify projects that are in distress (challenged projects) and provide the oversight necessary to correct the issues


  • Develop recovery teams as necessary to correct unsatisfactory project performance


  • Ensure any needed corrective deficiencies identified in project audits are addressed


  • Provide independent research and contribution to the betterment of Project Operations procedures


  • Serve as functional backup to Operations Lead for any project delivery items and business line functions as needed


Project Coordination Duties:

  • Collaborate with project coordination, leadership and operations to develop new practices.


  • Coordinate with the project team during the proposal process to ensure all deadlines are met and reviews have been completed.


  • Support the project manager with internal communications and follow-up


  • Maintaining project calendar including project deliverables, QC deadlines and publishing to project team.


  • Assist in scheduling internal team meetings, project kick-offs, design reviews, etc


  • Assist in reviewing project financial reports and communicate issues to project team


  • Assist in tracking invoices and project payments.


  • Assist project manager with reviewing deliverables during project deadlines.


  • Ensure projects are meeting all internal compliance requirements


  • Assist the project team in receiving, filing, distributing, processing, tracking due dates and responding to RFI's, submittals and responses.


  • Provide support for editing and formatting of specifications.


  • Assist in preparation of any materials required for project pursuit.


  • Assist in processing contracts and sub-consultant contracts.


  • Attend project, department and team meetings and take meeting notes. Distribute meeting notes internal and externally as required.


  • Assist in generating project financial management reports.


  • Assist in tracking scope changes and updating project budgets accordingly.


Who You Are

Required Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Management, or relevant field required


  • 3-5 years experience


  • Deadline oriented, ability to track and maintain and meet multiple concurrent deadlines.


  • Excellent verbal, written communication and program solving skills.


  • MS Office applications, including Word, Excel, Outlook, Power Point and others.


  • Familiarity with Smartsheet is an advantage.


  • Working knowledge of cloud-based file sharing platforms such as, SharePoint, ShareFile, Newforma, Dropbox, Box, etc. is an advantage.


  • Strong computer and typing skills


  • Self-motivated and flexible to take on new tasks and assist teams.


  • Strong willingness & eager to learn
  • WSP Benefits:
  • WSP provides a comprehensive suite of benefits focused on a 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): $82,000 - $95,000
  • WSP USA is providing the compensation range that the company in good faith believes it might pay and offer for this position, based on the successful applicant's education, experience, knowledge, skills, abilities in addition to internal equity and specific geographic location. WSP USA reserves the right to ultimately pay more or less than the posted range and offer additional benefits and other compensation, depending on circumstances not related to an applicant's sex or other status protected by local, state, and/or federal law.


About WSP

WSP is a Canadian engineering consulting firm that provides services to transform the built environment and restore the natural environment. The firm's expertise ranges from environmental remediation and urban planning, to engineering iconic buildings and designing sustainable transport networks, to developing the energy sources of the future and enabling new ways of extracting essential resources. It has approximately 54,000 employees, including engineers, technicians, scientists, architects, planners, surveyors, program and construction management professionals, and various environmental experts. WSP has offices in more than 40 countries and territories around the world.
Learn more about WSP
Size
54,000 employees
Industry
Technical Services
Founded
1959
* Ladders Estimates

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