Job Description

This Opportunity

WSP is seeking a full-time Lead Coordinator, Project Coordination (OR Specialist, Project Coordination) to join our Advisory & Planning team in our New York office.

Oversees and executes complex coordination and administrative functions that directly support the successful planning, tracking, and delivery of project objectives across diverse teams and disciplines. Serves as a senior resource and subject matter expert on project coordination processes, tools, and documentation standards. Provides daily leadership in the implementation of improved workflows, process enhancements, and compliance controls. Collaborates with project managers, finance professionals, and operational leads to ensure accurate data management, timely reporting, and effective cross-functional communication. Supports projects of greater size, complexity, or risk, and may provide mentorship to less experienced coordination staff.

Your Impact

• Working closely with all levels of management and disciplines/departments; and coordinating & communicating relevant project information to the team
• Support and assist project managers with complying with project delivery procedures
• With guidance from the Project Delivery Director, perform pricing reviews for new contracts and amendments, including reviewing pricing tools
• Lead project review meetings with project managers to discuss project status and performance
• Documenting and following up on important actions and decisions from meetings
• Support project managers with recovery plans, if needed
• Report to A&P leadership on portfolio performance
• Other administrative tasks as assigned

Who You Are

Required Qualifications

• High School diploma
• 7+ years of project support/administrative experience
• Experience supporting a high volume of projects
• Ability to handle a fast-paced environment
• Exceptional organizational and analytical skills
• Intermediate to Advanced Microsoft Office Suite skills
• Strong attention to detail and a good communicator
• Ability to work independently while providing strategic coordination support to project teams.
• Professional conduct in handling confidential project and financial information.
• Comfort working across distributed teams and supporting hybrid work environments.
• Ability to manage and prioritize escalated issues and propose effective resolutions.
• Demonstrated reliability, initiative, and accountability in support of project outcomes.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent industry-related experience
• Experience with MS Project, MS Visio, Oracle, MS Dynamics, and ProjectWise

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 Hourly Rate (all locations): $40.87- $50.48 per hour

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

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.