WSP

Project Manager

WSP$157K — $233K *
Transportation
11 - 15 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • B.S. in Engineering or Construction Management, or MBA or equivalent experience
  • 12+ years in construction project management
  • Experience working with Illinois Tollway, CDOT, and IDOT
  • OSHA 10-hour certification or ability to obtain
  • Excellent written and verbal English skills
  • Strong Microsoft Office and Excel skills

Responsibilities

  • Manage multiple transportation infrastructure construction projects
  • Oversee site management, coordination, and planning for subcontractors
  • Ensure quality standards and project deadlines are met
  • Drive contractor deliverables and maintain client satisfaction
  • Mentor staff and review contractor documentation
  • Coordinate project schedules and respond to RFIs and submittals
  • Administer construction contracts throughout the project lifecycle

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage
  • Disability and life insurance
  • Retirement savings plan
  • Paid sick leave and vacation
  • Paid parental leave and bereavement leave
  • Time off for voting and naturalization proceedings
Full Job Description
Job Description

This Opportunity

WSP is currently initiating a search for a Full-Time Project Manager for our Chicago, IL office. Be involved in projects with our Construction Management team and be a part of a growing organization that meets our clients' objectives and solves their challenges.

Your Impact

The Project Manager will work on transportation infrastructure construction projects. Responsibilities include:

  • Manage projects simultaneously, ranging from small renovations to large-scale new facilities.


  • Provide overall site management, coordination, and planning for subcontractors and developers.


  • Verifying that quality standards and project deadlines are met.


  • Driving and ensuring contractor deliverables are met.


  • Provide staff mentoring.


  • Review reports, payroll certifications and other labor documentation from the contractor.


  • Perform review of Contractor's schedules, Baseline and updates, in coordination with client requirements.


  • Maintenance quantities logs. Response to RFI's, Submittals, Review of change orders and issuance of recommendations.


  • Maintaining client satisfaction.


  • Construction contract administration, including pay requisitions, change orders, and correspondence from pre-construction through closeout.


  • Ability to chair site meetings with the contractor, client and other stakeholders, and prepare meeting minutes.


  • Direct coordination with the client's Project Representatives.


  • Providing regular status reports to Construction Services Department Manager.


Minimum Qualifications

  • B.S. Degree in Engineering or Construction Management, or Masters in Business Administration or equivalent experience


  • Minimum 12 years of experience in construction project management


  • Experience with Illinois Tollway, Chicago Department of Transportation, Chicago Department of Transportation (CDOT), Illinois Department of Transportation (IDOT)


  • OSHA 10-hour certification or ability to obtain


  • Excellent English language skills, written and verbal


  • Strong computer skills (Microsoft Office, Excel) etc.


Preferred Qualifications

  • eBuilder experience


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): $157,500 - $233,860

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.
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54,000 employees
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Founded
1959

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