Vice President, Asset Management

This Opportunity

The WSP US Advisory practice is dedicated to transforming the business of infrastructure across the transportation, buildings, energy, water, environment, and power sectors. We provide our clients with the full range of strategic planning, organizational development, economic and financial analysis and project development and delivery services supported by WSP's engineering expertise in all infrastructure markets.

Our Asset Management Business Advisory service line provides asset lifecycle planning and enterprise transformation services on every level within an organization. Our services are focused around supporting clients to achieve their organization goals and customer service objectives - efficiently, effectively and equitably. We work as trusted advisors to executive leaders through to the maintenance technician - driving organization, process and activity change to realize tangible benefits and improvements to service delivery, cost savings, risk and safety. Our vision is to be the leading provider of advisory services in the social infrastructure sectors - supporting public and private clients to develop the capabilities to manage risk, to be more resilient, to support efficiency, and to enable the delivery of utility, transportation and government services. At WSP, we work to enable clients to be Immediate Ready by improving organization resilience and developing investment plans to support and maintain asset performance. We also work to support clients to be Future Ready through improved alignment of tomorrow's organization goals and customer service objectives - including consideration of environmental, economy and social equity - with asset investment needs, through transformation services that address risk and organization resilience. Our work further enables clients to be Digital Ready by identifying the data needs for management action and decision-making, designing appropriate technology solutions and importantly, delivering the organization change management associated with digitalization by supporting all transition phases from design to operations and maintenance.

At WSP US Advisory, you will join a group of trusted advisors and analysts, delivering business and asset performance improvement solutions to our transit, highways, water, aviation and other sector clients. Our team works nationally with team members located across the country.

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 other 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.