Description

• Provide coaching, mentorship, and professional development opportunities to build future leaders.
• Foster innovation by advancing creative, data-driven, and future-ready solutions to complex client challenges.
• Develop and execute strategic plans that align with business line goals, regulatory trends, and market conditions.
• Foster a collaborative, innovative, and inclusive culture centered on growth, technical excellence, strategic advisory services and accountability across business lines and global regions.
• Ensure project execution meets WSP’s quality standards, adheres to best practices, manages risks, and exceeds client expectations.
• Serve as WSP’s Energy Advisory representative to federal, state, and local agencies, utilities, clients, subcontractors, industry organizations, and community partners.
• Manage the practice’s full P&L, including budgeting, forecasting, staffing, utilization, and financial reporting to ensure profitability and long-term sustainability.
• Identify emerging markets, service lines, and opportunities that expand the Energy Advisory practice.
• Build, cultivate, and expand relationships with utilities, agencies, regulators, developers, and stakeholders across the power and energy ecosystem. Focus on elevating these relationships to executives who are defining strategy for these organizations.
• Monitor project milestones, proactively address challenges, and champion continuous improvement.
• Oversee delivery of complex advisory consultant engagements across electrification, renewable energy integration, grid modernization, major projects/ programs in transmission, asset management, regulatory strategy, and decarbonization.
• Lead pursuit strategies, capture planning, and proposal development that reinforce WSP’s competitive positioning.
• Lead, inspire, and manage a diverse team of technical and strategic consultants and subject matter experts.

Requirements

• Understanding of how energy systems intersect with transportation electrification, sustainable buildings, water systems, environmental priorities, and federal infrastructure programs.
• Understanding of distributed energy resources (DERs), microgrids, advanced metering, and digital grid capabilities.
• Ability to support clients in evaluating feasibility and deploying innovative energy solutions.
• Ability to support decarbonization strategies, electrification programs, and net-zero planning.
• Ability to assess economic drivers behind power supply planning, capacity markets, and long-term contracting.
• Knowledge of state and federal regulatory frameworks, rate cases, cost recovery mechanisms, and performance-based regulation.
• Knowledge of commercialization pathways, pilot programs, and technology readiness evaluations.
• Experience guiding utilities and agencies through regulatory filings, compliance strategies, and risk mitigation.
• Awareness of advanced and emerging technologies such as hydrogen, long-duration energy storage, carbon capture, vehicle-grid integration, and AI-enabled grid software.
• Proven ability to foster collaboration across teams, senior management, clients, and partners, including those without direct reporting relationships.
• Demonstrated commitment to workplace safety and adherence to WSP’s health, safety, and anti-harassment policies.
• Experience evaluating and delivering renewable energy solutions including solar, wind, battery storage, and hybrid resource portfolios.
• Serve as a trusted advisor to clients, demonstrating strong strategic acumen and a seller/doer mindset.
• Strong understanding of utility operations, asset lifecycle management, capital planning, and O&M optimization.
• Experience in utility management or utility asset management.
• Bachelor’s degree in business, engineering, or a related field.
• Exceptional leadership, communication, and interpersonal skills with the ability to influence across levels and functions.
• Strategic thinker with strong analytical capabilities, sound judgment, and the ability to prioritize in a fast-paced environment.
• Master’s degree or Ph.D. in engineering, energy systems, business, policy, or related fields.
• Understanding of federal energy policy (DOE, FERC, EPA) and state mandates shaping the U.S. energy transition.
• Ability to travel as needed.
• Ability to guide clients through integrated, cross-sector planning and investment strategies.
• Knowledge of interconnection processes, load forecasting, system modeling, and emerging grid technologies.
• Expertise in system planning, grid modernization strategies, and reliability/resilience analysis.
• Advanced expertise in energy project development and implementation with a seller/doer mindset (electrification, renewable integration, asset management, regulatory compliance, and decarbonization strongly preferred).
• 15+ years of experience in the energy industry, including management consulting or advisory roles.
• Strong understanding of renewable energy, generation, transmission development, and utility operations as they relate to power system services.
• Familiarity with siting, permitting, interconnection, and wholesale market rules influencing renewable deployment.

Benefits

Training + Development

Interview process

Visa Sponsorship

Security clearance