Senior Planning Manager

WSP USA, Inc.

HybridPosted July 30, 2026

About the role

Senior Planning Manager for WSP's California Planning Practice. This role, aligned with WSP’s Senior Vice President level, focuses on transportation, housing, environmental, or land use planning for the California-based planning team and can be based out of any WSP California office. The successful candidate will collaborate with planning, environmental, civil, and transit/rail staff across WSP to research, analyze, document, and present information related to transportation and housing projects across the region.

Senior Planning Manager

WSP USA, Inc.

HybridPosted July 30, 2026

About the role

Senior Planning Manager for WSP's California Planning Practice. This role, aligned with WSP’s Senior Vice President level, focuses on transportation, housing, environmental, or land use planning for the California-based planning team and can be based out of any WSP California office. The successful candidate will collaborate with planning, environmental, civil, and transit/rail staff across WSP to research, analyze, document, and present information related to transportation and housing projects across the region.

Your impact: - Lead the Northern California-based team of land use, housing, transit/transportation, and environmental (NEPA/CEQA) planners. - Provide profit & loss leadership over projects, pursuits, and staff, including managing and directing outcomes for key performance indicators. - Offer proactive and strategic leadership for the planning discipline, ensuring technically proficient and high-quality deliverables for clients. - Contribute to multi-disciplinary project teams through all phases of feasibility studies, alternatives analyses, site reports, NEPA/CEQA compliance documents, locally preferred alternative selection, comprehensive plan updates, climate action plans, short/long range plans, and related work. - Lead larger-scale, more complex planning projects, manage budgets and hours, supervise subcontractors and staff, and ensure profitability and satisfactory performance. - Ensure compliance with applicable federal, state, and local laws, policies, and regulatory requirements. - Support the long-term strategy, growth, and pipeline development of tran

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Your impact: - Lead the Northern California-based team of land use, housing, transit/transportation, and environmental (NEPA/CEQA) planners. - Provide profit & loss leadership over projects, pursuits, and staff, including managing and directing outcomes for key performance indicators. - Offer proactive and strategic leadership for the planning discipline, ensuring technically proficient and high-quality deliverables for clients. - Contribute to multi-disciplinary project teams through all phases of feasibility studies, alternatives analyses, site reports, NEPA/CEQA compliance documents, locally preferred alternative selection, comprehensive plan updates, climate action plans, short/long range plans, and related work. - Lead larger-scale, more complex planning projects, manage budgets and hours, supervise subcontractors and staff, and ensure profitability and satisfactory performance. - Ensure compliance with applicable federal, state, and local laws, policies, and regulatory requirements. - Support the long-term strategy, growth, and pipeline development of tran