Director Mechanical & Electrical

The Opportunity:

The Director M&E GTA & SWO will focus on the organic growth strategy and increasing market share. The leader will be responsible to develop, communicate, and implement best practices to create a sustainable business with a reliable, client-oriented, and cost-effective organization that provides quality services. In addition, the leader will ensure that the M&E GTA & SWO Region business is a high performing team, accountable for the growth, planning, and financial performance within organizational objectives. The successful leader will be committed to employee engagement, productivity, health and safety, social responsibility, and respect of the environment while influencing the company's core values.

Why choose WSP?

• We value and are committed to upholding a culture of inclusion and belonging
• 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.
• A Canadian success story - we're proud to wear the red and white of this beautiful country and show the world what Canada has to offer.
• Enhance the world around you - from the environment to the highways, to the buildings and the terrain, WSP is the fabric of Canada.
• 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.
• A phenomenal collaborative culture and a workforce filled with genuinely good people who are doing humbly important work. Come find out for yourself what it's like to be a part of our journey.

We offer attractive pay, flexible work options, a great corporate culture, comprehensive and employee-focused benefits including virtual healthcare and a wellness platform as well as great savings programs, and a clear vision for the future.

#WeAre WSP

What you can expect to do here:

• Develop and articulate the M&E strategic objectives to achieve expected results to align with the scope of the business strategy to the market vision.
• Develop a team of technical experts, to provide overall strategic direction to achieve financial objectives.
• Maintain a high degree of personal involvement with major clients & coordinate business development efforts by meeting with clients to proactively understand evolving client needs, local and industry trends, and upcoming project opportunities.
• Responsible for budget and optimizing profitability and company growth in terms of sales and market share (achieve sales, revenue, DSO, utilization, and operating margin targets.)
• Provide leadership on short and long-term workforce requirements for the region including future technical and design skill sets required, gaps, and utilizing WSP programs to proactively build a strong talent pool; ensuring that a succession plan is in place for key positions.
• Expect to manage major proposals, including liaise internally within other disciplines to create local business development plans across disciplines and sectors while managing risk and compliance;
• Participate in industry associations and proactively work to raise local WSP brand awareness, encouraging staff to do the same.
• Act as a key interface for change management, project management and issue resolution. Determine project needs and monitor inter-office, inter-provincial and inter-regional coordination;
• Manage continuous improvement processes for services delivery and provide both tactical and strategic leadership (challenges the status quo and collaboratively sets new standards)
• Reviews and approves project evaluations and post-implementation reviews. Implements associated continuous improvement initiatives;
• Provide expert level technical knowledge and guidance in the design and delivery of highly complex and technically challenging Engineering projects.
• Monitor, measure, and report on regional major projects and opportunities, challenges and achievements from a technical perspective

What you'll bring to WSP:

• 15+ years' experience of industry experience with a proven track record in building strategic client relationships in targeted markets and achieving growth targets;
• Strong technical and project delivery experience in buildings projects related to solving the most complex technical/business issues
• Experience in strategic and operational leadership and represent the organization internally and externally representing senior leadership
• Experience in managing professional teams; the ability to lead dynamically and energize multidiscipline work teams to learn and apply new skills and techniques to respond to business needs;
• Confidence to influence a high caliber team to drive a business to higher performance levels and seize the opportunities presented internally and in the market;
• A track record of creating a climate where people want to do their best through working collaboratively, empowering teams to identify and solve problems, creating a clear sense of identity with the company, and holding teams accountable for meeting their collective goals;

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.

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Engineering