Senior Technical Director, Architecture Job at WSP USA in Orlando

This Opportunity

WSP is seeking a Part-Time Senior Technical Director, Architecture. This position may be based in either our St. Louis, MO or Orlando, FL Offices. This is a non-health-and-welfare-benefit-eligible position.

Provide regional and/or multi-sector Program leadership to ensure Aviation architectural subject matter, technical deliverables, building and infrastructure projects and programs are delivered with a level of quality that meets or exceeds acceptable industry standards for design, safety, sustainability, structural integrity, and functionality. Responsible for SME innovation and administration, ensuring corporate compliance with all Local, State, and Federal environmental, construction, and safety regulations, and providing strategic and consistent direction to address current and future challenges in a large-scale and multi-faceted business organization.

Your Impact

• Provide proactive and strategic process and people leadership for the design, implementation, and administration of architecture discipline’s project and program involvement within the organization.
• Lead the most complex and largest scale architectural projects, ensuring contributors know what they are required to do and by when, preparing and overseeing relevant project budgets, monitoring internal and external events, tracking timelines, hours and expenses, ensuring satisfactory performance and profitability, and supervising subcontractors, contract work, and employees.
• Lead technical aspects of contract negotiation, presentations, and meetings.
• Assist with Program profitable performance.
• Drive compliance and accountability-at-all-levels with applicable design/environment/construction laws, codes, policies, and regulatory requirements.
• Oversee internal vision and mission for the architecture discipline, ensuring alignment with business operations strategy, and maintaining that certifications, accreditations, and client value ratings are continuously improved.
• Lead program architecture discipline meetings and continuing educational opportunities for area of responsibility, providing updates and recommendations to staff that ensure all appropriate measures are taken to foster innovation, development, and quality project delivery within the discipline.
• Serve as the program architecture discipline’s representative/liaison to a variety of external entities including Federal, State, and Local Agencies, Clients, Subcontractors, industry-related groups, and various government and community entities.
• Interpret and summarize data, including reports and documents that result in sound conclusions.
• Provide program architecture discipline leadership to multi-disciplinary project teams and contribute to providing high level strategic advice to clients.
• Provides performance guidance and proactive leadership to assigned managers and staff.
• Remain current in latest architecture techniques and practices.
• Collaborate with professionals from a variety of disciplines to provide “trusted advisor” service and future ready solutions for clients.
• Exercise responsible and ethical decision-making regarding company funds, resources and conduct, and adhere to WSP’s Code of Conduct and related policies and procedures.
• Perform additional responsibilities as required by the Program.

Who You Are

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Architecture
• 15+ years of relevant Aviation Architectural leadership post education experience.
• AIA professional licensure/certification.
• Advanced proficiency with Aviation centric architecture principles, practices, process, design/build, standard of care, and the application to permitting and project work-related issues.
• Extensive advanced proficiency with Aviation building and infrastructure design.
• Advanced knowledge of relevant Aviation construction laws, codes, regulations, compliance practices, and record-keeping requirements, and the business impact upon the organization.
• Demonstrated ability with establishing, implementing, and managing multiple larger-scale discipline-related Aviation programs, documents, projects, and practices as an owner or owner representative.
• Excellent leadership and interpersonal communication skills with the ability to manage staff, and effectively, persuasively, and tactfully interact with employees at all levels of the organization.
• Strategic lateral thinking and strong analytical skills with attention to detail and prioritization of responsibilities in a pressure work environment.
• Ability to elicit cooperation from a wide variety of sources, including senior management, clients, and company-wide staff, including those with whom no formal hierarchical relationship exists.
• Strong ability to quickly adapt to change and demonstrate flexibility to a variety of schedules and hours to meet business needs.
• Advanced knowledge and proficiency with office automation, discipline-specific design software (i.e., MicroStation, AutoCAD, REVIT, SketchUp, Adobe Creative Suite), technology, math principles, graphics, spreadsheets, and tools used in the Aviation environment.
• Proven track record of upholding workplace safety and ability to abide by WSP’s health, safety and drug/alcohol and harassment policies.
• Occasional travel may be required depending on project-specific requirements.

Preferred Qualifications

• Former owner experience with Multi-Billion Aviation CIPs

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