Generation Project Development Leader (Power & Energy)

Description

• Inspire, motivate, and promote the best of WSP to our clients and communities to ensure strong employee engagement and morale.
• Resolve conflicts and other internal/external issues that may arise in the office, amongst WSP’s client base, or on projects.
• Manage existing team delivering Independent Engineering scopes. Coordinate growth for this offering in consultation with the Advisory business line.
• Advance the strategic direction of the US business for sustained and continued growth consistent with the strategic plan.
• Support programs such as Safety, Sustainability and Ethics & Compliance
• Collaborate with leadership to strategically drive the business, assess, and suggest improvements for project performance, oversee overhead expenditures, and focus on Key Performance Indicators (KPIs): Sales, Funding, EBITDA, Staff Hiring and Retention, DSO, Utilization, Backlog, Inclusion & Diversity and Guiding Principles.
• Foster the development of new and emerging innovations to remain the trusted thought leaders in our industry.
• Serve as a leader alongside with Generation Leadership, Team Leads, other local/regional WSP leaders, and the broader P&E team to attract the best industry talent by fostering a work environment that is collaborative, values inclusion and diversity and invites broad, creative thinking – crafting a more attractive place to work, grow and thrive.
• Where appropriate, guide select opportunities to position for conversion of Owner’s Engineering projects to detailed engineering.
• Represent WSP as the “face of the company” across the US with clients, industry, and within WSP.
• Leverage WSP’s broad technical experience to enhance current and new service offerings.
• Strategically grow and drive performance of our generation engineering market share across the U.S. working with project owners, developers, and EPC clients.
• Bring an expanded view and integrated response to complex client challenges by leveraging our full suite of offerings across all end markets.
• Create and deploy a plan to drive greater value from key customers including potential for growth in portfolio-level Owner’s Engineers scopes or other repeatable/programmic work.
• Maintain regular contact with other business lines and interested WSP parties to ensure they are aware and planning to support generation project development and concept design opportunities as they arise.
• Partner with broader WSP teams participating in strategy formation and business development.
• Encourage, support, and promote the technical and professional development of local WSP staff.
• Ideate, define, and deliver plans to support key tactical activities to support growth.
• Alongside Business Development, listen to customers to understand their needs and formulate WSP teams to provide solutions they require in a responsive manner. In order to provide holistic solutions that complement Generations’ core domain knowledge, the leader would draw from key resources across P&E and other WSP businesses (including internationally as needed) to prepare these solutions (e.g. interconnection and transmission studies, environmental due diligence, geotechnical support, planning).
• Utilize our extended reach of technical and subject matter experts (SMEs) across the US and globally to foster new and innovative client delivery.
• Develop local growth forecast and business development strategy in collaboration with Team Leads and Leadership.

Requirements

• Travel will be required to support employee engagement, clients, and/or sector activities.
• Demonstrated high-level of self-leadership with diligence, multi-tasking, and prioritization of responsibilities in a dynamic work environment.
• Bachelor’s degree in business, engineering, or related discipline.
• Minimum of 15+ years of experience with a college degree or equivalent experience in the engineering consulting industry with a strong focus/background in the energy and infrastructure value chain.
• Highly effective interpersonal and communication skills when interacting with others, expressing ideas effectively and professionally to an engineering and non-engineering audience.
• While team staff is expected to be base loaded with Generation’s existing core detailed engineering staff, key hires will be needed with sufficient development experience needed to be effective in a dynamic environment.
• The ideal candidate for this role brings a strong background in energy infrastructure ideally with expertise in generation development and engineering.
• Strongly established relevant client relationships and industry contacts.

Benefits

Training + Development

Interview process

Visa Sponsorship

Security clearance