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About the Role
WSP is seeking a strategic and accomplished Senior Director, Major Projects, Power Canada to lead the successful delivery of complex power infrastructure projects. This executive leadership role oversees large-scale capital projects from development through closeout, serving as a trusted advisor and guiding multidisciplinary teams to deliver projects safely, sustainably, and profitably.
Responsibilities
- Provide director-level leadership and oversight for major power and energy infrastructure projects across Canada.
- Establish project execution strategies, governance frameworks, organizational structures, and decision-making processes.
- Ensure safe, efficient, and successful project delivery while achieving approved scope, schedule, quality, financial, and operational objectives.
- Build, mentor, and lead high-performing project leadership teams that foster accountability, collaboration, and excellence.
- Serve as the director-level interface with clients, contractors, regulators, Indigenous communities, and other key stakeholders.
- Drive commercial and financial performance for the major projects team through effective forecasting, contract management, risk mitigation, change management, and claims resolution.
- Align engineering, procurement, construction, commissioning, project controls, commercial, safety, and quality teams toward shared project goals.
- Champion strong project governance through performance reporting, risk reviews, health assessments, and corrective action planning.
- Promote a robust safety culture while ensuring regulatory compliance, quality standards, and sustainable project practices.
- Lead project closeout activities for the major projects team, including client acceptance, commercial completion, lessons learned, and successful transition to operations.
Requirements
- Bachelor's Degree in Engineering or a related discipline.
- Minimum 15 years of experience leading large-scale major projects within the power, energy, or heavy industrial sectors.
- Proven experience delivering complex projects involving Transmission & Distribution, Hydropower & Dams, Renewable Energy, or Power Infrastructure.
- Demonstrated success leading multidisciplinary teams through feasibility, execution, commissioning, start-up, and project closeout phases.
- Strong knowledge of project delivery models including EP, EPCM, PMC, and similar contracting arrangements.
- Expertise in project governance, project controls, commercial management, contract administration, legal reviews, risk management, and stakeholder engagement.
- Exceptional leadership, negotiation, strategic planning, and decision-making capabilities.
- Demonstrated ability to foster a high-performance, collaborative culture across integrated project teams.
- Strong business acumen with a focus on profitability, client satisfaction, and long-term partnership development.
Skills
- P.Eng. designation
- PMP certification
- Bilingualism (English/French)
Location
- Canada
Work Type
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- Senior Director
- 15+ years
Education Level
- Bachelor's Degree in Engineering or related discipline
- P.Eng. designation preferred
- PMP certification considered an asset
Salary/Compensations
- AB, BC, NT, NU, SK & YT: $177,000 to $234,400
- MB & ON: $161,500 to $222,300
- NB, NL, NS, PEI & QC: $159,900 to $212,300
Benefits
- Flexible work
- Real balance
About the Company
- WSP is the home of ambitious, passionate, and innovative world shapers with an unmatched breadth and depth of engineering, advisory and science-based expertise.
- We are pathfinders and impact makers.
- We exist to shape communities to advance humanity.
- The brightest engineers, advisors and scientists from across the globe call WSP home.
- Proudly Canadian – we are a Top 100 Employer in Canada for 2026.
- A global community of brilliant minds – your next idea, mentor, or opportunity is always within reach.
- Limitless opportunities start here. Whether it’s across the country or around the globe, we help you tailor your role to match your ambition — because your growth drives ours.
- As one of the world’s leading professional services firms, we partner with clients across transportation, infrastructure, environment, buildings, energy, water, mining and metals.
- We pair deep local knowledge with global insights to pioneer solutions designed to leave a lasting, positive impact.
- At WSP, you’ll join a community of brilliant minds that push boundaries every day - applying deep expertise and fuelling innovation to help create a more connected and resilient future.
- Here, your ideas are valued, your growth is supported, and you are encouraged to bring your authentic self to work.
- We empower our people to collaborate across disciplines, challenge the status quo, and shape a career with purpose.
Equal Opportunity
- WSP welcomes and encourages applications from people with disabilities. Accommodations are available on request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process.
- WSP is committed to the principles of employment equity.