Senior Technical Manager, Information Modelling

This Opportunity

WSP is seeking a Microsimulation Modeling Subject Matter Expert (P6) to lead the development, calibration, analysis, and quality control of advanced traffic simulation models. This position will provide technical leadership across North America, particularly in New York, on the use of PTV Vissim and PTV Vistro to support planning, design, and operations projects. The successful candidate will guide WSP teams and clients in applying simulation best practices, ensuring models meet FHWA, state DOT, and industry standards, and will play a key role in training, mentoring, and developing simulation capabilities across the organization.

Your Impact

• Lead and oversee the development, calibration, and analysis of complex microscopic and mesoscopic traffic simulation models (PTV Vissim and Vistro).
• Provide technical leadership and quality control reviews for WSP’s simulation modeling projects, including large-scale multimodal corridor studies, freeway operations, and policy-level planning analyses.
• Develop workflows, guidance, and training materials to standardize simulation modeling practices across projects and geographies.
• Mentor and train staff on simulation development, calibration, and analysis through hands-on workshops, webinars, and project-based learning.
• Present modeling results and technical findings to clients, agencies, and stakeholders in meetings, public forums, and conferences.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams (traffic engineering, planning, safety, ITS, TSMO) to integrate simulation results into broader project analyses and recommendations.
• Provide technical support in proposal writing, scoping, and business development for simulation-intensive projects.
• Stay current with evolving FHWA and state DOT modeling guidance, ensuring WSP remains an industry leader in simulation methodology and application.

Who You Are

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Civil Engineering, Transportation Engineering, Applied Mathematics, or related field (Master’s preferred).
• 10+ years of post-education professional experience in traffic simulation modeling.

 

• Recognized expertise with PTV Vissim and PTV Vistro, including experience with calibration, scenario analysis, and simulation-based workflows.
• Demonstrated success providing training, guidance, and technical support to engineers, planners, and public agencies.
• Proven ability to lead quality assurance/quality control reviews of simulation models at key project milestones.
• Experience developing workflows, methodologies, and documentation for simulation modeling best practices.
• Strong technical writing, presentation, and communication skills with the ability to convey complex modeling concepts to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Experience working on simulation-based projects for FHWA, state DOTs, and MPOs, with familiarity in applying federal/state guidelines.
• Ability to work independently while mentoring and collaborating with cross-functional project teams.

Preferred Qualifications 

• Prior consulting or public agency experience in traffic simulation modeling.
• Published research, guidance, or peer-reviewed papers on simulation modeling.

Active participation in ITE, TRB, SimCap, or similar professional organizations.

 

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): $115,100-$205,040

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 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.