Job Description

This Opportunity

Be a part of the Human Resources team at WSP USA! We rise by lifting others, and operate under guiding principles that influence our interactions within our team and with our business partners:

As a Manager, Human Resources, you will contribute to and support the delivery of human resources practices and objectives that will provide an employee-oriented, high-performance culture that emphasizes empowerment, innovation, goal attainment, and the ongoing development of a superior workforce.

WSP is currently initiating a search for a Human Resource Manager for our Interstate Bridge Replacement (IBR) Program General Engineering Consultant contract in our Vancouver, Washington office.

Your Impact

• Deliver HR policies and programs, provide advice and strategic guidance to IBR Program managers, and ensure compliance with internal and external regulatory requirements within a region or HR specialty.
• Consistently integrate a mindset around diversity and inclusion.
• Coach others to understand ways to optimize the IBR program values.
• Establish key stakeholder relationships and work across boundaries to drive results.
• Proactively anticipate opportunities or issues and develop innovative solutions to address the opportunities at root cause with the intention to arrive at sustainable solutions.
• Diagnose, coach and/or advise managers on day-to-day concerns related to employee performance, productivity and behavioral or engagement challenges.
• Provide trends, feedback and other ancillary data that could improve the effectiveness and efficiencies of our team and platform performance.
• Positioned as a credible champion who embodies WSP and IBR program culture in all interactions.
• Identify high potential staff in conjunction with our managers
• Connect staff with their home office/cost centers
• Actively leverage HR Systems to drive value and results.
• Prepare and implement the Program HR Plan
• Prepare and implement the Staff Training Plan
• May manage or supervise staff, with responsibility for or input into performance review.
• Travel overnight as needed.
• Complete other duties as assigned.

Talent is essential to meeting our client's objectives, goals and challenges. If this sounds like a fit for you, we'd love to have that first discussion about you joining our team.

Who You Are

Required Qualifications

• BA/BS degree with major concentration in HR-related field or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• 5-7 years of experience in a HR or related field.; management experience preferred.
• Energy and passion about human resources and advancing talent.
• Forward thinking and strategic
• Evidence of business acumen with proven results in influencing and advising managers and leaders at all levels, both virtual and local.
• Ability to rigorously assess talent with a combination of objectivity and a hint of intuition.
• Desire to succeed in a fast-paced, matrixed, ever-changing environment.
• Solution-oriented and creative problem solver in a sometimes resource-constrained environment.
• Self-starter; results oriented and motivated professional.
• Continuous improvement mindset with an attention for detail mentality.
• Experience using data and/or analytics to arrive at outcomes.
• Computer proficiency with advanced skills in Excel, Power Point, and other Office suite applications.

Preferred Qualifications

• SHRM certification (PHR or SPHR).
• Master's Degree in Human Resources or related field.

WSP Benefits
WSP provides a comprehensive suite of benefits focused on 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): $85,000-160,000

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 Us

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.