Project Engineering Manager

WSP in Canada; Montreal (administrative region); Hybrid; CAD 133,000 - 177,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Top 100 Employer 2026 (Canada)

Global community of brilliant minds

Tailor your role to match ambition

Flexible work-life balance

Job summary

WSP is seeking an experienced Project Engineering Manager based in Canada, with hybrid work options in Toronto or Montréal. The role leads multidisciplinary engineering execution for large, complex mining projects across EPC/EPCM, connecting technical depth with disciplined delivery and client collaboration.

You will guide field teams, coordinate with discipline leads and project controls, and ensure safe, high-quality outcomes while driving continuous improvement and innovation across the

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in engineering.
• P.Eng. registration in a Canadian province or territory.
• 15 years of relevant engineering experience, including leadership and supervisory responsibility in the mining sector with direct exposure to concentrators and mills.
• Broad experience executing multidisciplinary engineering work on large, complex projects across the complete EPC/EPCM lifecycle, including field engineering leadership.
• Demonstrated ability to make sound decisions on highly technical and complex issues by integrating specialist input, project requirements, risk, and client priorities.
• Proven capability to establish engineering execution plans, schedules, deliverables, staffing strategies, work-hour budgets, forecasts, progress reports, and recovery actions.
• Experience applying and improving quality systems, project procedures, interdisciplinary checking, document control, stakeholder communications, and engineering performance measures.
• A track record of implementing innovative engineering approaches that improve execution efficiency, technical quality, team performance, and project outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Lead the preparation, review, coordination, and quality control of technical documentation required to execute complex multidisciplinary mining projects.
• Drive engineering strategy by defining deliverables, developing schedules, forecasting resource needs, and aligning qualified personnel with project priorities and milestones.
• Manage engineering budgets, productivity, progress, and performance, identifying trends early and implementing action plans to protect cost, schedule, quality, and client outcomes.
• Strengthen project execution by improving work processes and tools, introducing innovative approaches, and capturing continuous-improvement ideas for future assignments.
• Collaborate with the Client Engineering Manager, discipline leads, project management, project controls, construction personnel, and field teams to enable timely decisions and effective interdisciplinary coordination.
• Champion WSP's Quality Management System and health, safety, and environment requirements while fostering ethical practice, technical innovation, accountability, inclusion, and continual improvement.

Skills

Leadership

Project management

Quality systems

Decision making

Interdisciplinary coordination

Client relationships

Innovation

Team leadership

Budgeting

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering

Professional Engineer (P.Eng.) registration in a Canadian province or territory

Job description

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.

#GlobalMining #ERI_Opportunities #carrières_ERI

The Opportunity

Innovate and Lead

In this role, you'll be at the forefront of innovation, collaborating on transformative projects that push the boundaries of what's possible. If you're looking for a challenge that offers both career growth and the chance to make an impact, this is the opportunity for you.

Based in Toronto or Montréal within WSP's ERI sector, this hybrid Project Engineering Manager role will lead multidisciplinary engineering execution for large, complex mining projects across the complete engineering, procurement, construction, and construction management lifecycle. You'll connect technical excellence with disciplined project delivery, guide field engineering teams, and build strong relationships with clients, discipline leaders, project controls, and construction partners to deliver safe, coordinated, and high-quality outcomes.

Your Impact

• Lead the preparation, review, coordination, and quality control of technical documentation required to execute complex multidisciplinary mining projects.
• Drive engineering strategy by defining deliverables, developing schedules, forecasting resource needs, and aligning qualified personnel with project priorities and milestones.
• Manage engineering budgets, productivity, progress, and performance, identifying trends early and implementing action plans to protect cost, schedule, quality, and client outcomes.
• Strengthen project execution by improving work processes and tools, introducing innovative approaches, and capturing continuous-improvement ideas for future assignments.
• Collaborate with the Client Engineering Manager, discipline leads, project management, project controls, construction personnel, and field teams to enable timely decisions and effective interdisciplinary coordination.
• Champion WSP's Quality Management System and health, safety, and environment requirements while fostering ethical practice, technical innovation, accountability, inclusion, and continual improvement.

The Skills That Set You Apart

• A bachelor's degree in engineering.
• Professional Engineer (P.Eng.) registration in a Canadian province or territory.
• 15 years of relevant engineering experience, including leadership and supervisory responsibility in the mining sector with direct exposure to concentrators and mills.
• Broad experience executing multidisciplinary engineering work on large, complex projects across the complete EPC/EPCM lifecycle, including field engineering leadership.
• Demonstrated ability to make sound decisions on highly technical and complex issues by integrating specialist input, project requirements, risk, and client priorities.
• Proven capability to establish engineering execution plans, schedules, deliverables, staffing strategies, work-hour budgets, forecasts, progress reports, and recovery actions.
• Experience applying and improving quality systems, project procedures, interdisciplinary checking, document control, stakeholder communications, and engineering performance measures.
• A track record of implementing innovative engineering approaches that improve execution efficiency, technical quality, team performance, and project outcomes.

Why Choose WSP?

• 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'll 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, PE & 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.

Turn Engineering Vision into Delivery

Complex mining projects move forward when technical depth, disciplined execution, and trusted leadership come together. Guide multidisciplinary teams to solve demanding challenges and deliver engineering outcomes that clients can build on.

Lead the work that moves projects forward.

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 .