Senior Fire Protection Lead: Major Projects & Team Growth

Wsp In Australia; Sydney; On-site; AUD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Employee benefits

Share plan

Flexible workplace

Job summary

WSP is seeking a Fire Protection Engineering Team Lead to join our Sydney Property & Buildings team. This leadership role will drive the delivery of major projects across commercial, health, education, defence, transport, mission critical and mixed-use sectors, while growing our fire protection capability and developing our people.

You will lead design, provide technical leadership from concept through construction, mentor staff and manage project scope, quality, risk and budgets.

Qualifications

• Engineering degree or equivalent qualification required.
• 10+ years' experience in fire protection or building services required.
• Proven project leadership and commercial management skills.
• Experience mentoring and developing technical staff.
• Familiarity with Revit MEP, Navisworks and BIM workflows.

Responsibilities

• Lead fire protection design and documentation for major projects.
• Provide technical leadership from concept through construction.
• Mentor and develop engineers, graduates and designers.
• Manage project scope, quality, programme, risk and budgets.
• Review designs, reports and specifications for compliance and quality.
• Build strong client and stakeholder relationships.
• Support business development, proposals and market engagement.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams across WSP.
• Contribute to team growth, resourcing and capability development.
• Champion innovation, safety in design and continuous improvement.

Skills

Project leadership

Commercial management

Mentoring

Stakeholder engagement

BD exposure

Education

Engineering degree

Tools

Revit MEP

Navisworks

Job description

WSP is seeking a Fire Protection Engineering Team Lead to join our Sydney Property & Buildings team. This leadership role will drive the delivery of major projects across commercial, health, education, defence, transport, mission critical and mixed-use sectors, while growing our fire protection capability and developing our people.

You will lead design, provide technical leadership from concept through construction, mentor staff and manage project scope, quality, risk and budgets.