WSP

Vice President, Asset Management

WSP • $190K — $230K *
Technical Services
11 - 15 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Business Administration, Transportation Planning, Operations Research, or related field.
  • 12+ years of relevant experience in asset management projects.
  • Proven consulting experience with complex project management.
  • Expertise in asset management for infrastructure sectors like transportation, water, and energy.
  • Experience in developing asset hierarchies and data standards for EAM systems.
  • Strong business development skills with a track record of winning proposals.
  • Excellent communication and facilitation skills.

Responsibilities

  • Lead asset management projects for major infrastructure clients.
  • Implement strategic consulting services focused on maintenance and technology improvements.
  • Develop comprehensive asset management plans and conduct facility assessments.
  • Foster client relationships to understand needs and deliver tailored solutions.
  • Mentor junior staff to enhance their technical and soft skills.
  • Drive business development efforts to identify new client opportunities.
  • Ensure quality standards are maintained in service delivery.

Benefits

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

Your Impact
  • You will lead and deliver a range of asset management projects with some of the largest, iconic infrastructure owners and operators in the United States - with a focus on Transit, Highways, Airports, Water, and Power asset management.
  • The work you will do will directly impact how our clients deliver their services, providing tangible improvements to performance, risk and cost.
  • To do this, you will:
  • Lead and pursuit strategic consulting services including maintenance, technology, asset data, organization and process improvements
  • Lead implementation of asset management improvement initiatives working with multi-disciplinary client teams including engineering, capital, operations and IT.
  • Provide expertise in the development of asset management plans, facility condition assessments, asset performance management, asset lifecycle strategies, asset lifecycle cost analysis, capital needs assessment and prioritization, organizational capabilities, maintenance assessments, process mapping and improvement, reliability centered maintenance, predictive maintenance, condition monitoring, digital twin, asset data standards, data governance, GIS implementation and/ or EAM system implementation and integration.
  • Contribute to staffing needs and ensure staff are retained and engaged
  • Lead business development activities in coordination with the rest of the team, including identification of new client opportunities, proposal development and marketing to continue growing our business
  • Demonstrate excellence in providing procedures and methods to maintain quality standards of existing services
  • Develop solid client relationships with a focus on understanding the needs of our clients and collaborating internally to offer the best solutions
  • Provide leadership in technical and professional activities that enable mentoring our junior staff and developing their technical and soft skills
Who You Are

Required Qualifications
  • Bachelor's degree or higher in Engineering, Business Administration, Transportation Planning, Operations Research or closely related and applicable discipline.
  • 12+ years of post-education experience performing similar work.
  • Experience working as a consultant, with a successful track record of managing the delivery of complex asset management projects
  • Experience in strategic, planning, operational or technology related asset management aspects in one or more infrastructure sectors, including transportation, water, energy, municipalities or utilities.
  • Experience developing asset hierarchies, asset data standards, asset definition and data dictionaries and oher similar protocols for EAM System implementation.
  • Experience pursuing new business opportunities, developing technical proposals and winning work.
  • Excellent facilitation, presentation, and communication skills both in person and remote.
  • High quality standards with an innate attention to detail
  • Strong analytical skills including experience with asset performance data, financial data and asset lifecycle cost analysis.
  • Demonstrated understanding of ISO55001 and its implementation within agencies operationally.
  • Strong interpersonal skills and high emotional intelligence.
  • Strong team player who can get things done under competing client priorities

Preferred Qualifications:
  • Master's degree.
  • Management Consulting, Engineering Consulting or Data Science experience.
  • Proven experience in consulting or a comparable role in an organization where the individual has held a role responsible for deployment of asset management technologies
  • Demonstrated experience on EAM System Implementations including Maximo, Infor, Trapeze or other systems.
  • IAM Diploma or Certified Asset Management Assessor (CAMA) certificate.


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): $190,800 - $230,500

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.

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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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