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The Opportunity

Build the Future with Us - This is your chance to be part of a team that's shaping the world's transportation infrastructure and communities. In this role, you'll apply your mechanical and electrical engineering leadership to complex, multidisciplinary projects, making a real impact where it matters most.

Reporting to the Director, Building M&E Transportation, you will lead a well-established team of mechanical and electrical professionals, combining hands-on technical design with strong people leadership, project delivery, and business performance accountability.

Your Impact

• Lead and manage a well-established mechanical and electrical engineering team, ensuring excellence in technical delivery, resourcing, financial performance, and design quality.
• Own sales and profitability targets for your portfolio, monitoring performance and taking proactive action to meet or exceed established goals.
• Provide day-to-day people leadership including work planning, coaching, staff goal setting, and completing mid-year and year-end performance reviews.
• Act as a hands-on manager-engineer, with deep involvement in project design and implementation from proposal stage through detailed design, construction, and post-construction phases.
• Manage and deliver complex infrastructure design and engineering solutions tailored to client-specific requirements, balancing technical rigour, constructability, operations, and lifecycle value.
• Take a lead role in proposals and pursuits, providing technical leadership, financial and technical project management, resourcing strategies, and input into business development activities.
• Lead and manage multidisciplinary project teams across planning, engineering design, construction, post-construction, and financial management deliverables.
• Hire, develop, and empower a diverse group of professionals and technical support staff, fostering a high-performing, inclusive team culture aligned with our values, culture, and code of ethics.
• Collaborate closely with M&E Managers and other discipline leaders (including Lighting, Structural, Architectural, BIM, Civil, and others) to deliver integrated, client-focused solutions.
• Undertake other responsibilities as assigned by leadership to support the success and growth of the business.

The Skills That Set You Apart

• Experience leading multidisciplinary mechanical and/or electrical engineering teams delivering complex infrastructure or building-related projects across the full project lifecycle.
• Proven track record in project and financial management, including responsibility for sales, profitability, resource planning, and design quality.
• Hands-on technical background as a practicing engineer, with comfort moving between strategic leadership, project oversight, and detailed design/problem-solving.
• Demonstrated experience in managing proposals and pursuits, client relationships, and externally facing leadership on complex projects.
• Strong people leadership skills with experience in performance management, coaching, goal setting, and building engaged, high-performing teams.
• Commitment to equity, diversity, inclusion, and ethical practice, with the ability to lead by example and embed these principles in team culture and project delivery.
• Collaborative working style with a history of effective partnership across multiple disciplines (e.g., mechanical, electrical, structural, architectural, BIM, civil) in a matrixed environment.
• Professional engineering designation (e.g., P.Eng.) in a Canadian province or territory

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'll 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.

Compensation:

Zone 1 - AB, BC, NT, NU, SK & YT ($135,200 - $179,100)

Zone 2 - MB & ON ($123,300 - $169,800)

Zone 3 - NB, NL, NS, PEI & QC ($114,900 - $154,800)

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 impact, we'd love to hear from you. Apply now and take the first step toward a rewarding career with us
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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.

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• We value our people and our reputation
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• We are future focused and challenge the status quo
• We foster collaboration in everything we do
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