Vice President, Project Controls Greater Hartford, CT Area

The Opportunity

WSP is seeking a senior leader to serve as Vice President, Project Controls, leading the Project Controls function for a major business line and driving consistent, high-quality project performance across its market sectors. Reporting to the Sr. Vice President of National Project Controls, this leader will serve as the primary business-line focused project controls manager for the various market sectors within WSP USA, ensuring alignment between enterprise standards and the unique needs of their sector. They will be responsible for building and leading a team of project controls professionals, driving adoption of standardized delivery practices, supporting major pursuits and projects, and improving project performance across their portfolio.

Key Responsibilities

Lead the Business Line focused Project Controls team

• Build, lead, and develop a high-performing team of Project Controls professionals supporting the business line.
• Participate in workforce planning, recruiting, onboarding, mentoring, and career development activities.
• Establish staffing plans and deployment strategies to support project demands.
• Manage resource allocation, utilization, succession planning, and organizational growth.
• Foster a culture of accountability, collaboration, continuous improvement, and client service.

Implement the Project Controls Operating Model

• Deploy and operationalize the national Project Controls strategy within the business line.
• Ensure consistent adoption of established governance, standards, procedures, and reporting requirements.
• Identify business-line-specific requirements and help shape future enhancements to the operating model.
• Support implementation of new technologies, reporting platforms, data standards, automation initiatives, and AI-enabled solutions.
• Collaborate with Business Line Leaders, Operations Leaders, Project Directors, and Program Managers to improve project performance.
• Participate in project reviews, risk reviews, and executive performance discussions.
• Advise project teams on forecasting, cost management, schedule performance, risk mitigation, contract compliance, and reporting.
• Support major pursuits, project startups, and strategic initiatives.
• Establish business-line-specific performance metrics and improvement initiatives.

Oversee Project Controls Service Delivery

• Provide leadership and oversight for the delivery of:
• Project setup, governance, and baseline development.
• Project Execution Plans and Project Management Plans.
• Schedule, cost, forecasting, and earned value management.
• Change management and contractual compliance.
• Risk and opportunity management.
• Progress measurement and reporting.
• Dashboard development and performance analytics.
• Invoicing and financial monitoring support.
• Document controls, action tracking, and closeout support.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Business, Finance, Project Management, or related field.
• 12+ years of experience in project controls, project delivery, program management, PMO leadership, commercial management, or related disciplines.
• Experience leading teams and managing resources within a large, matrixed organization.
• Strong understanding of project controls principles, including planning, scheduling, cost management, forecasting, risk management, earned value, change management, and reporting.
• Experience supporting large, complex infrastructure, engineering, construction, transportation, energy, water, or federal programs.

Preferred Qualifications

• PMP, CCP, PSP, PMI-SP, PgMP, or other relevant professional certification.
• Experience implementing PMO, Project Controls, Project Management Excellence, or Project Performance organizations.
• Experience with Power BI, InEight, Oracle Primavera P6, Deltek, SAP, or similar project delivery platforms.
• Experience leading transformation initiatives involving process improvement, analytics, automation, or AI-enabled solutions.

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): $240,000-$290,000/year

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.

Expected Salary (Colorado only): $240,000-$290,000/year

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. #LI-MP1

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.