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About the Role
This strategic leadership role is responsible for the growth, performance, technical excellence, and long-term direction of WSP’s Geotechnical Engineering practice across Ontario. The role leads a large multidisciplinary team delivering ground engineering solutions that support transportation, infrastructure, buildings, energy, mining, environmental, land development, and water projects across the province.
Responsibilities
- Lead the strategic direction, growth, performance, and technical excellence of WSP’s Geotechnical Engineering practice across Ontario.
- Develop and execute the long-term vision, business plan, and growth strategy for the practice, aligned with client needs, market priorities, and WSP’s broader business objectives.
- Build, mentor, and develop a high-performing multidisciplinary team of engineers, project managers, technologists, and technical professionals across multiple offices.
- Strengthen client relationships, support strategic pursuits, and identify growth opportunities across transportation, infrastructure, buildings, energy, mining, environmental, land development, and water sectors.
- Advance technical standards, methodologies, quality practices, innovation, digital delivery, instrumentation, monitoring, ground modelling, and emerging geotechnical technologies.
- Oversee project delivery, portfolio performance, resource planning, technical review, risk management, financial performance, and operational discipline across the practice.
- Foster collaboration across offices, regions, and sectors to maximize technical expertise, share knowledge, and deliver integrated solutions for clients.
- Represent WSP in the marketplace through client engagement, industry participation, professional associations, conferences, and technical forums.
- Champion WSP’s commitment to health, safety, quality, inclusion, collaboration, innovation, and client success.
Requirements
- Strategic, commercially minded leader with the ability to align people, resources, client needs, market opportunities, and long-term business objectives.
- Proven ability to lead, inspire, and develop large multidisciplinary teams in a consulting environment, including managers, technical leaders, and emerging leaders.
- Strong client relationship, business development, and market leadership skills, with a solid understanding of the Ontario market, and in particular the GTA market, and the ability to support major pursuits.
- Recognized technical expertise in geotechnical engineering, with the judgment to guide complex projects, strategic initiatives, technical risk, and senior client discussions.
- Experience overseeing project portfolios, resource planning, financial performance, quality systems, contract review, risk management, and operational performance.
- Ability to advance innovation, digital tools, data-informed decision-making, and practical continuous improvement across technical and operational teams.
- Collaborative, inclusive leadership style with a strong commitment to safety, quality, accountability, employee engagement, and client success.
- Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering, Geological Engineering, Geotechnical Engineering, or a related discipline. Master’s degree considered an asset.
- Professional Engineer (P.Eng.) in Ontario. Additional professional designations considered an asset.
- Minimum 15 years of progressive experience within geotechnical engineering or related consulting environments.
- Demonstrated experience leading multidisciplinary teams and managing complex project portfolios.
- Proven success in business development, client relationship management, and strategic growth initiatives.
- Strong understanding of Ontario’s regulatory, commercial, and infrastructure environment.
Skills
- Geotechnical Engineering
- Leadership
- Business Development
- Client Relationship Management
- Strategic Planning
- Team Development
- Project Portfolio Management
- Financial Performance Oversight
- Risk Management
- Innovation
- Digital Tools
- Data-informed Decision-making
- Collaboration
- Inclusion
- Health and Safety
- Quality Assurance
Location
- Ontario
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Minimum 15 years of progressive experience within geotechnical engineering or related consulting environments.
Education Level
- Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering, Geological Engineering, Geotechnical Engineering, or a related discipline.
- Master’s degree considered an asset.
- Professional Engineer (P.Eng.) in Ontario.
- Additional professional designations considered an asset.
Salary/Compensations
- AB, BC, NT, SK & YT: $177,000–$234,400
- MB & ON: $161,500–$222,300
- NB, NL, NS, PE & QC: $159,900–$212,300
Benefits
- Flexible work options that support balance and well-being.
- Comprehensive benefits, wellness programs, and retirement savings plans.
About the Company
- We exist to shape communities to advance humanity.
- The brightest engineers, scientists, advisors, and technical experts from across the globe call WSP home.
- Proudly Canadian and a recognized employer of choice.
- A global network of experts with opportunities for growth, mentorship, and collaboration.
- A culture built on innovation, inclusion, technical excellence, and client success.
- 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.