Senior Vice President, Scheduling Manager

This Opportunity

WSP is seeking a Senior Vice President, Scheduling Manager to join our Project Controls team. This role can be based out of any WSP USA office. 

Position Overview

This individual will lead the scheduling function within the project controls organization, supervising a team of approximately 20 schedulers who support various projects and programs in design and construction phases. This role requires a balance of technical scheduling expertise, client engagement, and leadership skills to manage internal teams, expand service offerings, and drive business growth.

Your Impact

Duties And Responsibilities:

• This position is responsible for developing, growing, and overseeing comprehensive scheduling operations across multiple programs and projects, ensuring the effective allocation of resources, and driving continuous improvements in scheduling processes. 
• This position will champion best practices, foster collaboration, and deliver timely scheduling solutions aligned with client and organizational goals to optimize productivity and meet critical project milestones.
• Develop, manage, and/or oversee detailed, critical path method (CPM) schedules using Primavera P6 in support of client programs and projects (Transportation & Infrastructure, Power & Energy, Earth & Environment, Federal and Property & Buildings). 
• Act as the primary scheduling subject matter expert when engaging with internal project managers and external clients, providing insights and forecasts to support informed decision-making.
• Lead, mentor, and develop a team of schedulers; implement best practices, training, and career development plans.
• Partner with business development teams to market and sell scheduling services to new and existing clients, as well as to internal project managers.
• Support proposal development, scope definition, and pricing of scheduling services.
• Ensure consistent, high-quality delivery of schedules across multiple projects while balancing competing priorities.
• Drive continuous improvement by implementing tools, processes, and reporting structures to improve efficiency and client satisfaction.
• Grow the scheduling team by recruiting top talent and building scalable capabilities aligned with business demand.

Who You Are

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or related discipline or equivalent experience.
• 15+ years of experience in developing, managing and reviewing project and program schedules.
• 10+ years of progressive scheduling experience in large-scale capital projects, infrastructure construction.
• Experience working within large and challenging client programs with one or more project teams.
• Demonstrated experience leading scheduling teams and managing delivery across multiple projects simultaneously.
• Strong commercial acumen with experience selling professional services to clients and internal stakeholders.
• Proven ability to build trusted client relationships and deliver presentations to senior leadership.
• Exceptional communication, leadership, and interpersonal skills.
• Experience in mentoring, coaching, and growing high-performing teams.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Professional certifications such as PMI-SP, PSP (AACE), or PMP.
• Experience with earned value management and integration of cost/schedule controls.

Compensation and Benefits:

WSP provides a comprehensive suite of benefits including medical, dental, vision, disability, life, and retirement savings focused on a providing health and financial stability throughout the employee’s career.

Expected Salary: $182,300-265,400
 
WSP USA is providing the compensation range and general description of other compensation and benefits that the company in good faith believes it might pay and/or offer for this position based on the successful applicant’s education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities in addition to internal equity and 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, or federal law. 

Expected Salary (Colorado only): $182,300-265,400

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

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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.