Assistant Vice President, Project Management

About the job

This Opportunity

WSP is currently initiating a search for an Assistant Vice President, Project Management to work out of our office in Arlington, VA.  In this position, you will be involved in projects with our Federal Programs Team focused on energy resiliency, nuclear power, and facilities engineering while being a part of a growing organization that meets our clients’ objectives and solves their challenges.

The ****position will primarily focus on executing AE and Program Management services for federal clients focused on the development of nuclear technologies powering Department of War installations with an emphasis on policy, regulation, permitting, interconnection. Projects are anticipated to have a broad range of engagement from site assessment and characterization through engineering and architectural services. It is anticipated this role will have a primary role in various Program Management Organizations (PMOs) focused on supporting Federal agencies execute their nuclear programs. Work may be performed directly for the DOW, a construction contractor, or to a nuclear OEM provider. While this segment of the market matures, a fundamental need of the position is developing relationships across segments of the market while building a team and technical ability to deliver the vast services necessary to deliver new nuclear projects.

The position will work with operations and delivery leaders across all sectors to position WSP as the preferred and trusted choice for clients and employees.

Your Impact

• Drive business in a new and emerging nuclear market with the DOW.
• Establish relationships with key industry partners to execute challenging projects or the program management across a large number of projects.
• Operate as a trusted advisor to the DOW in the development and planning of new nuclear.
• Hold a key role within PMOs established to execute a broad Federal nuclear portfolio.
• Engage in the development of new team members necessary for the expansion of services to meet market needs.
• Guides multi-discipline teams in making informed technical decisions.
• Fosters innovation and technical excellence of teams.
• Identifies opportunities to improve processes and coordinates with Project Delivery Leader and Director of Federal Property and Buildings to implement them.
• Assists Client Account Sponsors, Leads, and/or Managers with Client management and satisfaction.

Metrics and KPIs:

• Safety, Health, Environment, & Quality (SHEQ) performance of projects in their portfolio.
• Net Revenue delivered relative to the as-contracted Net Revenue of their portfolio of projects.
• Client management and satisfaction.
• Operational governance, process adherence and quality.
• Collaboration and workshare with other WSP Sectors and Regions supporting resourcing projects with the strongest talent for programs’ or projects’ scopes of work for mutual WSP and client success.

Who You Are

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, or equivalent.

• Minimum 10+ years of successful experience proposing on, negotiating fee proposals, and delivering Architectural & Engineering (AE) planning, design, and AE construction-phase oversight services on projects under U.S. Department of War contracts.

• 7+ years' experience managing multi-disciplinary engineering/architectural teams.

• 3+ years’ operating within a PMO and overseeing executing of projects through various phases of development.

• Due to client requirements, US citizenship is required.

• Demonstrated experience in working with cross-functional teams and a variety of stakeholders, and in developing and executing strategies to deliver business results.

• Demonstrated track record of managing large and complex opportunities and pursuits, as well as smaller task orders.

• Project Management Professional (PMP) licensure.

• Strong knowledge and overall understanding of:

• Department of War

• Department of Navy

• Department of Air Force

• Department of Army clients

• US contracting industry;

• Strong understanding of Federal budgeting and industry business drivers.

• Proven ability to communicate and under limited time constraints.

• Relocation assistance is not available for this position.

Desired Qualifications

• Professional engineering (PE) registration US licensed Engineer.
• The ability to obtain and maintain a US security clearance.

WSP Benefits:

WSP provides a comprehensive suite of benefits focused on 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): $143,6000 - $185,000

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 Us

About WSP WSP USA is the U.S. operating company of WSP, one of the world's leading engineering and professional services firms. Dedicated to serving local communities, we are engineers, planners, technical experts, strategic advisors and construction management professionals. WSP USA designs lasting solutions in the buildings, transportation, energy, water and environment markets. With more than 15,000 employees in over 300 offices across the U.S., we partner with our clients to help communities prosper.

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WSP provides a flexible and agile workplace model while meeting client needs. Employees are also afforded a comprehensive suite of benefits including medical, dental, vision, disability, life, and retirement savings focused on providing health and financial stability throughout the employee’s career.

At WSP, we want to give our employees the challenges they seek to grow their careers and knowledge base. Your daily contributions to your team will be essential in meeting client objectives, goals and challenges. Are you ready to get started?

WSP USA (and all of its U.S. companies) is an Equal Opportunity Employer Race/Age/Color/Religion/Sex/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity/National Origin/Disability or Protected Veteran Status.

The selected candidate must be authorized to work in the United States.

NOTICE TO THIRD PARTY AGENCIES:

WSP does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruiters, employment agencies, or other staffing services. Unsolicited resumes include any resume or hiring document sent to WSP in the absence of a signed Service Agreement where WSP has expressly requested recruitment/staffing services specific to the position at hand.  Any unsolicited resumes, including those submitted to hiring managers or other business leaders, will become the property of WSP and WSP will have the right to hire that candidate without reservation – no fee or other compensation will be owed or paid to the recruiter, employment agency, or other staffing service.

Additional Information

• Job Identification: 98387
• Job Category: Project and Program Management
• Posting Date: 2026-10-27
• Locations: 1300 North 17th Street, Arlington, VA, 22209, US ()