Lead Project Manager, Mission Critical Buildings

WSP in Canada; Victoria; On-site; CAD 123,000 - 163,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible work arrangement

Career growth opportunities

Job summary

WSP is seeking a Lead Project Manager / Design Manager to lead the delivery of complex mission critical and data centre projects in Canada. You will be the client’s primary contact, establish governance, and guide multidisciplinary teams from initiation through closeout.

You will shape winning proposals and practical delivery strategies that support reliable, high-performing facilities and long-term client outcomes. Strong leadership and security clearances are required.

Qualifications

• 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.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Skills

Engineering degree

Project management

Leadership

Stakeholder communication

Contract management

Education

Engineering degree

PM certification (asset)

Job description

Job Description

What if you could redefine what's possible?

With us, you can. You want

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 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

Bring your leadership to projects that strengthen Canada's defence and public-sector infrastructure.

About Us

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 .