Senior Vice President, Land Development and Municipal Engineering

Wsp

The Role

Overview

Lead national LDME practice, drive growth, manage teams, and ensure financial performance.

Key Responsibilities

  • team leadership
  • financial optimization
  • business growth
  • risk mitigation
  • client delivery
  • strategic planning

Tasks

-Team Builder: Lead and develop key team members, aligning resources for our LD&ME sector. -Optimize and Profit: Optimize financial performance including net revenue, operating margin, and DSO (receivables). -Enhance the world around you - from the environment to the highways, to the buildings and the terrain, WSP is the fabric of Canada. -Drive Growth: Leverage your LD&ME expertise and client networks to fuel our business growth. -Prioritize and Uphold: Ensure that WSP programs of health, safety & environment; and ethics & compliance are an overriding part of the organizational culture -Collaborate and Satisfy: Work with peers nationally and globally to leverage technical expertise, ensure client satisfaction, and implement best practices. -Implement and Excel: Lead the implementation of the operating plan and its objectives, focusing on people development, client relations, project delivery excellence, quality, and financial performance. -Strategize and Forecast: Develop operating plans and financial forecasts in collaboration with the business line executive and the finance leader. -Strategic Acquirer: Use your market knowledge to identify potential acquisitions for WSP Global. -Mitigate and Deliver: Direct Leaders on measures to mitigate project performance issues and risks, ensuring successful delivery on contractual commitments and financial targets to meet client expectations and exceed profitability targets. -Unite and Lead: Guide the work of Vice-Presidents and Directors, bringing national teams together to support all business growth objectives. -Engage and Retain: Foster a high-performance culture and complete integration to a one WSP culture, ensuring a high degree of employee engagement and low turnover of staff.

Requirements

  • strategic thinking
  • engineer
  • 15+ years
  • relationship management
  • business development
  • team leadership

What You Bring

-Strategic Thinker: Expertise in addressing growth opportunities and balancing risk-taking. -Seasoned Professional: Engineer with 15+ years of leadership in the LD&ME sector. -Relationship Manager: Advanced skills in managing relationships and achieving results. -Business Developer: Track record of client engagement and business development. -Team Influencer: Ability to drive a high caliber team to higher performance levels. -People Leader: Proven ability to create a high-performance environment and empower teams. -Globe Trotter: Openness to national and international travel.

Benefits

-Our Flexible Work Policy – we recognize the importance of balance in our lives and encourage you to prioritize the balance in yours. We will support you on and off the job so you can be fully present in both your work and home lives. -Outstanding career opportunities - we're growing and pushing ourselves every day to be greater than yesterday - we're open to your ideas and trying new things.

The Company

About Wsp

-Partners with clients to create sustainable, efficient, and resilient solutions. -Known for iconic projects like the One World Trade Center and London's Crossrail. -Provides cutting-edge services in transportation, energy, water, and commercial developments. -Blends technical expertise with deep industry knowledge to solve complex challenges globally.

Sector Specialisms

Waste Management and Landfill

Water & Wastewater Tunnels

Water and Wastewater Treatment

Water Supply and Distribution

Parks and Open Spaces

Rail and Transit Advisory

Rail Design

Rail Electrification

Rail Planning

Refurbishment and Retrofit

Risk and Resilience for Bridges and Civil Structures

Stormwater and Flood Risk Management

Structural Engineering for Healthcare

Sustainability and ESG Solutions

Sustainable Building Consulting

Sustainable Design for Healthcare

Tailings & Mine Waste Management

Train Control Systems

Tunnel Seismic and Earthquake Engineering

Tunnel Structural Engineering

Waste and Resources Sector (including thermal treatment, biomass energy, carbon capture, materials recovery facilities, organic waste treatment, advanced conversion, waste transfer facilities, landfill management)

Healthcare Strategy and Planning

Property Consultancy

Cost Management

Project and Programme Management

Life Sciences Strategy