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WSP Canada

Architectural Discipline Manager

Posted 3 hours ago

Job Description

What if you could redefine what's possible?

With us, you can.
You want Purpose. Growth. Opportunity. People who get it.
We are the home of ambitious, passionate, and innovative world shapers.
With an unmatched breadth and depth of engineering, advisory and science-based expertise, our global minds unite to power local solutions.
We are pathfinders and impact makers.
We are Visioneers.
We are WSP.

The Opportunity

Build the Future with Us - Join a team shaping the next generation of integrated transit and transportation systems across Canada. In this senior role, you will guide multidisciplinary project teams through high-impact transit initiatives that improve mobility, enhance sustainability, and strengthen communities.

Your Impact Starts Here - You'll serve as the senior technical authority and project delivery leader on complex infrastructure programs, ensuring our solutions meet the highest standards of technical excellence, safety, and client value.

Your Impact
  • Provide senior technical governance for large, multidisciplinary transit infrastructure programs, ensuring alignment with WSP standards and client expectations.
  • Act as the primary technical escalation point for complex challenges across engineering, design, contracts, and delivery.
  • Lead and mentor Project Managers, discipline leads, and technical specialists to ensure integrated, high-performance project execution.
  • Oversee project execution plans, schedules, budgets, and quality processes throughout the project lifecycle.
  • Collaborate with Project Directors and Commercial teams to support risk management, change management, and issue resolution.
  • Build strong relationships with clients, partners, and stakeholders while representing WSP as a trusted advisor.
  • Conduct technical reviews, audits, and approvals of major deliverables to ensure quality and constructability.
  • Lead value engineering initiatives and risk mitigation strategies to improve outcomes and reduce cost and schedule risk.
  • Capture lessons learned and apply them to strengthen WSP's project delivery practices.

The Skills That Set You Apart
  • Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Architecture, or a related technical field.
  • 10+ years of progressive experience leading complex infrastructure or transportation projects.
  • Demonstrated success managing multidisciplinary technical teams in senior leadership roles.
  • Deep understanding of project controls, change management, risk management, and quality systems.
  • Strong ability to navigate complex stakeholder and regulatory environments.
  • Proven experience in client-facing leadership roles, earning trust through technical excellence.
  • Comfort working in fast-paced, high-complexity project environments with evolving priorities.

Why Choose WSP?

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.
Flexible work, real balance - we recognize the importance of balance in our lives and encourage you to prioritize the balance in yours.
#WeAreWSP

Compensation

AB, BC, NT, NU, SK & YT: $147,500 - $195,400
MB & ON: $134,600 - $184,600
NB, NL, NS, PEI & QC: $133,200 - $176,900

Disclosure:
The final salary awarded for this role may vary from the above range based on several factors including, but not limited to, relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, seniority, geographic location, performance, and business or organizational needs. The wage range provided in this job posting may be subject to change for business purposes.

Make Your Mark with WSP

If you're driven by purpose and inspired to shape the future of transportation and infrastructure, we want to hear from you. Apply today and join a team that's redefining what's possible.
WSP is one of the world's leading professional services firms. Our purpose is to future proof our cities and environments.

We have over 65,000 team members across the globe. In Canada, our 12,000+ people are involved in everything from environmental remediation to urban planning, from engineering iconic buildings to designing sustainable transportation networks, from finding new ways to extract essential resources to developing renewable power sources for the future.

At WSP:

  • We value our people and our reputation
  • We are locally dedicated with international scale
  • We are future focused and challenge the status quo
  • We foster collaboration in everything we do
  • We have an empowering culture and hold ourselves accountable

Please Note:

Health and Safety is a core paramount value of WSP. Given the importance of keeping one another safe it is expected that you comply with our Health, Safety & Environment (HSE) policy at all times as well as client HSE policies when working at client locations.

Offers of employment for safety-sensitive positions involving fieldwork are contingent upon candidates being able to perform key physical tasks of the job as described in the job posting and interview. This may include the ability to work in a variety of environmental conditions, such as remote or isolated areas, working alone, and in inclement weather (within safe and reasonable limits).

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. Only the candidates selected will be contacted.

WSP does not accept unsolicited resumes from agencies. For more information please READ THE FULL POLICY.

About WSP Canada

WSP is one of the world's leading professional services consulting firms. We are dedicated to our local communities and propelled by international expertise. We are technical experts and strategic advisors including engineers, technicians, scientists, planners, landscape architects and urban designers, surveyors and environmental specialists, as well as other design, program and construction management professionals. We design lasting solutions in the Buildings, Transportation, Infrastructure, Environment, Geomatics, Energy, Resources, and Industrial sectors as well as project delivery and strategic consulting services. With over 8,000 talented people across Canada, we engineer projects that will help societies grow for generations to come.

Industry

Engineering

Company Size

5001-10,000 employees

Application closing date is 2026-05-09

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