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WSP Canada

Operations Manager, Transportation Systems

Posted 13 days 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 of Transportation Systems with Us.
As part of our Transportation Systems Group, you will shape the performance, delivery, and financial success of complex infrastructure projects that define how communities move. Your leadership will empower teams, elevate project delivery excellence, and drive the successful execution of our strategic plan across the market segment.

Your Impact
  • Guide and direct project management employees on measures to mitigate project performance issues and risks, ensuring successful delivery on the contractual commitments and financial targets for the project portfolio to meet client expectations and achieve or exceed profitability targets.
  • Conduct regular project reviews to ensure budget, schedule, risk, and cost to complete estimates are in order.
  • Effectively communicate and manage the implementation of the operating plan and its objectives for the market segment, with primary efforts focused on project delivery excellence, financial performance, overhead cost management, cash collection, and adherence to the strategic plan. You will report back to the Senior Director of Operations and Project Controls on current performance and priorities to successfully close the month and quarter ends.
  • Help develop the operating plan and financial forecasts in collaboration with the Senior Director of Operations and Project Controls, and the individual directors and managers.
  • Help identify opportunities to increase revenue.
  • Work closely with the finance, quality, legal/risk, and project delivery shared services to advance project management tools such as project status reports, ensuring proper deployment and utilization within the market segment.
  • Promote collaboration across offices to ensure effective resource sharing, workload/resource balancing, and to bring the best the market segment has to bear to meet the needs of clients.
  • Monitor business development investments to deliver acceptable returns on the investments, aligned with the regional market segment strategy and its backlog and sales targets.
  • Champion WSP's culture of safety, ethics, and compliance through visible leadership.

The Skills That Set You Apart
  • Post-secondary education in business, or an equivalent field.
  • Experience in management or project management within environmental planning, engineering, or related sectors that handle large, technical, and complex projects.
  • A strong history of delivering quality financial performance and results.
  • Advanced people and leadership skills to effectively manage relationships, achieve consensus, and drive results.
  • Ability to assess situations proactively and creatively, demonstrating good judgment and informed risk-taking.
  • Highly professional with strong written and oral communication skills.
  • Confidence to influence a high-calibre team, driving the business to higher performance levels and seizing opportunities both internally and in the market.
  • A track record of creating a climate where people want to do their best by working collaboratively, empowering teams to solve problems, and fostering a clear sense of identity with the company.
  • Internal WSP experience is considered a strong asset but not required.

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.

Ready to Shape the Future?

Your next impact starts here. Join us in driving operational excellence and delivering the transportation systems that move communities forward.At WSP, we exist to shape communities to advance humanity.

It's why we bring people together who are wired to solve complex challenges - engineers, scientists, advisors, and technical experts who are driven by a common passion - to redefine what's possible and shape what comes next. We are Visioneers.

As one of the world's leading professional services firms, we partner with clients across transportation, infrastructure, environment, buildings, energy, water, mining and metals. We pair deep local knowledge with global insights to pioneer solutions designed to leave a lasting, positive impact.

At WSP, you'll join a community of brilliant minds that push boundaries every day - applying deep expertise and fuelling innovation to help create a more connected and resilient future. Here, your ideas are valued, your growth is supported, and you are encouraged to bring your authentic self to work. We empower our people to collaborate across disciplines, challenge the status quo, and shape a career with purpose.

Join us.

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. Full details here .

Some safety-sensitive positions involve fieldwork and may include 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. Full details here .

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 2026-05-11

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