Senior Project Manager GIS

This Opportunity

WSP is seeking an experienced and future‑focused Senior Project Managerto join our Midwest Region Geomatics Team. This role expands our surveying and geospatial capabilities by integrating GIS, remote sensing, digital field data collection, and enterprise geospatial workflows into Transportation and Infrastructure programs across the Midwest. The preferred location for this position is Minneapolis, MN. This is a seller–doer role for a professional who can both win work and deliver high‑value geospatial solutions, with a focus on shaping and growing our digital geomatics offerings for state and local DOTs, MPOs, transit agencies, and municipal clients.

Your Impact

People and Culture

• Mentor and develop staff in GIS, digital field tools, remote sensing workflows, and modern geospatial practices.

• Build bridges between survey, GIS, environmental, planning, and engineering teams to deliver fully integrated data solutions.

• Promote a culture of innovation, continuous learning, collaboration, and client-focused delivery.

• Inspire and motivate teams through strong communication, technical leadership, and a commitment to excellence.

  Clients

• Serve as a client‑facing leader for geospatial and digital geomatics services across the Midwest.

• Expand WSP’s footprint by identifying opportunities where GIS, dashboards, remote sensing, UAS, and data governance add value to transportation clients.

• Develop winning proposals, scopes, and budgets that elevate our digital capabilities and differentiate WSP in interviews and orals.

• Cultivate long‑term relationships with DOTs, counties, municipalities, and regional partners.

  Expertise

• Lead geospatial components of transportation and infrastructure programs, including:

  • GIS enterprise architecture & AGOL/Portal implementations

  • Remote sensing and environmental/transportation analytics

  • UAS, LiDAR, and photogrammetry data integration

  • Mobile data collection (Field Maps, Survey123)

  • Dashboards, StoryMaps, and digital reporting tools

  • Survey/GIS data workflows and data governance

• Develop advanced mapping products, decision-support tools, and spatial analytics that improve project outcomes and client insight.

• Provide technical leadership on data standards, QA/QC, metadata, and cross-platform data integration.

• Support project teams in understanding and applying best practices in GIS, RS, and digital geomatics solutions.

  Operational Excellence

• Lead initiatives to modernize geomatics workflows through automation, digital field tools, and innovative geospatial technologies.

• Improve quality, consistency, and efficiency through standards development and repeatable templates.

• Support hiring, training, and professional development for digital and geospatial talent.

• Collaborate with internal disciplines, external partners, and subconsultants to deliver coordinated technical solutions.

• Exercise responsible and ethical decision-making regarding company funds and resources and adhere to WSP’s Code of Conduct and related policies and procedures.

  Who You Are

  Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in GIS, remote sensing, geomatics, geography, environmental science, or closely related field.

• 10+ years of experience delivering geospatial, digital, or geomatics solutions for infrastructure programs.

• Demonstrated ability to win work and lead client-facing engagement involving GIS, digital tools, or geospatial analytics.

• Strong communication skills with the ability to present complex geospatial concepts to non-technical audiences.

• Proficiency with Esri software (ArcGIS Pro, AGOL, Enterprise), remote sensing workflows, and field data collection solutions.

• Experience managing budgets, schedules, and cross-disciplinary teams.

• Understanding of survey/GIS integration concepts, transportation data standards, and data governance principles.

• Ability to work independently and lead multidisciplinary teams.

• Commitment to safety, ethics, and WSP’s Code of Conduct.

• Proven track record of upholding workplace safety and be willing to abide by WSP’s health, safety and drug/alcohol and harassment policies.

  Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s degree is a plus.

• FAA Part 107, CP/CMS, GISP, or PMP certifications.

• Experience developing AGOL/Enterprise architectures, dashboards, and program-level data management systems.

• Established relationships with regional DOTs, municipalities, and transportation-sector clients.

• Familiarity with UAS, LiDAR processing, photogrammetry workflows, and integrating unstructured data into GIS.

• Experience supporting major transportation programs requiring data governance, geospatial analytics, and digital reporting.

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): $104,300 - $ 155,550

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 and specific geographic location. WSP USA reserves the right to ultimately pay more or less than the posted range and may offer additional benefits and compensation, depending on circumstances and the type of work being performed not related to an applicant’s sex or other status protected by local, state, and/or federal law.

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.