Lead Project Manager, Mission Critical Buildings

WSP USA; Calgary; Sur place; CAD 123 000 - 163 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Health insurance

Professional development

Résumé du poste

WSP USA seeks a Lead Project Manager / Design Manager to steer complex mission-critical and data centre programs. You will be the client’s primary contact, guiding multidisciplinary teams from initiation to closeout and shaping practical delivery strategies that ensure reliable, high-performing facilities and long-term client outcomes.

You will oversee scope, schedule, cost, risk, and change, while leading proposals, governance, and executive decision-making across procurement, construction, and

Qualifications

• Degree in engineering, architecture, construction management, or related discipline; professional registration or PM certification is a plus.
• 10+ years delivering major, complex projects including mission critical or data centre environments.
• Experience leading design coordination and project delivery through procurement and turnover.
• Proven proposals and work-winning experience with clear, commercial submissions.
• Strong commercial and contract management capabilities including risk and forecasting.
• Solid understanding of project controls across schedule, cost, risk and reporting.
• Effective stakeholder leadership and communication to align diverse interests.
• Ability to obtain federal security clearances for assigned projects.

Responsabilités

• Lead planning, design management, execution and closeout of major mission critical and data centre projects.
• Act as the client’s primary interface, maintaining clear, timely communication across delivery stages.
• Direct multidisciplinary teams, subconsultants and stakeholders to deliver integrated outcomes.
• Oversee scope, schedule, cost, quality, risk, change and governance with focus on reliability.
• Lead commercial management, including fees, changes, forecasting and performance.
• Drive proposals, bid strategy and resourcing for winning work.
• Establish governance and escalate issues across design, procurement, construction, and turnover.
• Identify priorities and implement improvements to strengthen delivery certainty and client value.

Connaissances

Senior project management

Data centre experience

Design coordination

Proposals / bid shaping

Contract management

Project controls

Stakeholder leadership

Security clearance eligibility

Formation

Engineering/Architecture/Construction management degree

Description du poste

What if you could redefine what's possible?

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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

Lead the delivery of complex mission critical and data centre projects where resilience, speed, coordination, and technical precision are fundamental. As Lead Project Manager / Design Manager, you will be the client’s primary point of contact, establish effective governance, and guide multidisciplinary teams from initiation through closeout. You will also help shape winning proposals and practical delivery strategies that support reliable, high-performing facilities and long-term client outcomes.

Your Impact

• Lead the planning, design management, execution, monitoring, commissioning, turnover, and closeout of major mission critical and data centre projects and programs.
• Act as the client’s primary interface and trusted advisor, building strong relationships and maintaining clear, timely communication across delivery stages.
• Direct multidisciplinary teams, subconsultants, stakeholders, and concurrent workstreams to achieve integrated, coordinated project outcomes.
• Oversee scope, schedule, cost, quality, risk, change, and project controls, with particular attention to operational continuity, reliability, and critical milestones.
• Lead commercial and contract management, including obligations, fees, changes, risks, forecasting, and performance.
• Drive proposals and work-winning activities, including bid strategy, delivery approach, resourcing, fees, risk positioning, and written submissions.
• Establish governance, enable executive decisions, and lead issue resolution and escalation across design, procurement, permitting, construction administration, commissioning, and turnover.
• Identify priorities, take ownership, and implement practical improvements that strengthen delivery certainty, collaboration, and client value.

The Skills That Set You Apart

• A degree in engineering, architecture, construction management, or a related discipline; professional registration or project management certification is an asset.
• 10+ years of experience delivering major, complex, multidisciplinary projects and programs, including mission critical or data centre environments.
• Demonstrated experience leading design coordination and project delivery through procurement, construction administration, commissioning, and turnover.
• Proven proposal and work-winning experience, producing clear, compelling, and commercially sound submissions.
• Strong commercial and contract management capability, including fee, change, risk, forecasting, and performance management.
• Solid understanding of project controls interfaces across schedule, cost, risk, change, reporting, and decision governance.
• Effective stakeholder leadership and communication, with the judgement to resolve issues, manage escalation, and align diverse technical and commercial interests.
• Ability to obtain federal security clearances required for assigned projects.

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: $122,900 - $162,800

MB & ON: $112,100 - $154,400

NB, NL, NS, PE & QC: $111,000 - $147,400

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

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 (https://www.wsp.com/en-ca/corporate/ca/health-safety) .

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.