Mission-Critical Data Centre Project Lead

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

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.