Assistant Project Manager

This Opportunity

WSP is seeking a highly skilled Assistant Project Manager (APM ) to serve on-site in Dallas, TX . This is a full-time position. The candidate will be operating as a critical advisor, this role directly supports a Senior Project Director and an integrated multidisciplinary team overseeing a major industrial capital construction project.

The successful candidate will provide advisory oversight stretching across design progression, construction, and final client close-out. This role bridges senior strategic project management with technical field execution, ensuring that this multi-million-dollar capital project scope aligns flawlessly with the client's programmatic goals, budget constraints, and strict execution windows

Your Impact

Design & Pre-Construction Phase

• Partner with WSP design Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) to coordinate design work performed by the clients’ consultants, perform complex constructability analyses, and facilitate client workshops.

• Collaborate with WSP schedulers and client teams to engineer early master project schedules and milestone tracking frameworks.

• Support the Program Director in drafting comprehensive Requests for Proposals (RFPs), managing competitive bidding processes, and auditing contractor selections.

Construction Phase

• Serve as the core daily field liaison maintaining open communication among client stakeholders, architectural/engineering partners, and site crews.

• Drive administrative project controls: auditing and processing Requests for Information (RFIs), material submittals, and field change directives.

• Work with the project control manager to perform financial progress audits, validate monthly contractor payment applications, and regularly update overall capital budget forecasts.

• Conduct systematic site safety/progress walks, host regular coordination meetings, and coordinate schedule adjustments with WSP construction manager.

Close-out Phase

• Support WSP SMEs as needed in coordinating commissioning of project elements with the client commissioning agent.

• Enforce strict, systematic punch-list tracking architectures and manage on-site inspections of outstanding construction fixes.

• Secure and catalog all asset deliverables, including Operations & Maintenance (O&M) manuals, product warranties, and certificates of occupancy.

• Finalize end-to-end commercial contract reconciliations, orchestrate final retainage payouts, and manage formal operational handovers.

Other

• 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 business needs.

Who You Are

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in engineering, construction management, business OR equivalent

• Minimum of 7+ years of progressive professional experience in construction management, project engineering, or capital execution tracks.

• Deep understanding of industrial capital construction workflows, building codes, safety compliance matrices, and project delivery.

• Proven background working in construction management, explicitly emphasizing owner's representative or independent advisory roles.

• Analytical & Commercial Acumen with technical risk-mitigation skills to safely navigate volatile project environments as needed.

• Exceptional interpersonal skills to negotiate, persuade, and build consensus between corporate client stakeholders and field trade contractors.

• Proven track record of upholding workplace safety and ability to abide by health, safety, and drug/alcohol and harassment policies

• Valid, current Driver's license

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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.