Aviation Senior Project Design Manager

Aviation Senior Project Design Manager

WSP is currently initiating a search for an Aviation Senior Project Design Manager for our Northeast/New England region, with a focus on projects in New York, Connecticut, Boston, and Rhode Island. In this role, you will lead high-profile aviation design projects across the country while driving business development efforts to expand WSP's presence in the aviation sector. This is an opportunity to work with a dynamic team on transformative aviation infrastructure projects while engaging with clients, pursuing new opportunities, and shaping the future of aviation design.

Your Impact

• Manage the design process to ensure adherence with all codes, stakeholder requirements, and project-specific design standards.
• Consult with clients on the implementation of on-call designer's project task orders.
• Provide and coordinate technical responses to inquiries from contractors, tenants, consultants, and other regulatory agencies.
• Proactively collaborate with multiple design teams to ensure alignment with program requirements and communicate potential project risks.
• Lead the early identification of project design goals and work with Project Managers to guide design to meet those goals.
• Organize and oversee design and constructability reviews of several concurrent projects.
• Assist with evaluation of change order requests, requests for information, and other change issues.
• Support construction administration tasks, including review of submittals, RFIs, and field changes to ensure compliance with design intent and project requirements.
• Coordinate with construction teams to provide technical guidance, address design-related issues, and facilitate smooth project execution.
• Ensure final project deliverables (As-Builts & O&M Manuals) are delivered in a timely manner and meet project governance requirements.
• Provide risk management feedback on all assigned projects during design and into construction.
• Assist in the permitting and planning of design processes to support AHJ review schedules.
• Support business development efforts, including pursuits, proposal writing, and client engagement.
• Collaborate with marketing and technical teams to develop winning proposals, presentations, and qualifications packages.

Who You Are

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in civil engineering or a closely related discipline.
• Knowledge and familiarity with FAA design standards and aviation-specific criteria (e.g., FAA Advisory Circulars, Engineering Briefs, and airfield design best practices).
• 12+ years of relevant post-education experience in civil engineering, with a focus on aviation or transportation infrastructure.
• Proven ability to manage complex design processes and coordinate multidisciplinary teams.
• Maturity in interaction and ability to operate self-sufficiently in the field.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Knowledgeable of current technology with the ability to utilize it effectively on projects.
• Ability to manage concurrent design processes and identify impacts projects may have on each other.
• Experience supporting or leading business development activities, including proposal writing and pursuit strategy.
• Experience in construction administration tasks, including reviewing submittals, RFIs, and change orders.

Preferred Qualifications

• Professional Engineer (PE) license.
• Experience with the design and construction of airport facilities, including runways, taxiways, aprons, roadways, and terminal infrastructure.
• Familiarity with permitting processes and regulatory agencies at the federal, state, and local levels.
• Experience working with local municipalities and agencies in the Northeast/New England region (New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island).

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: $167,800 - $285,200

WSP USA is providing the compensation range that the company in good faith believes it might pay and/or offer for this position within the state of Colorado, based on the successful applicant's education, experience, knowledge, skills, and 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 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.

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.