Senior Project Manager - Data Center & Mission-Critical Infra

WSP in Canada; Victoria; On-site; CAD 104,000 - 138,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Top employer Canada 2026

Global opportunities

Flexible work balance

Growth opportunities

Job summary

WSP in Canada is seeking a seasoned Project Manager to lead major, complex projects across mission-critical facilities and data centers in Victoria and beyond. You will coordinate multidisciplinary teams and manage planning, design, procurement, construction, commissioning, and close-out to ensure on-time, on-budget delivery.

You bring 5+ years of delivering complex programs, strong governance, and hands-on experience with planning, cost control, risk management, and stakeholder engagement.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience delivering major, complex projects or programs in engineering, infrastructure, or data-center environments.
• Strong capability in project coordination, communication, and stakeholder management across multidisciplinary teams.
• Experience supporting planning, design reviews, approvals, procurement, construction, commissioning, and close-out.
• Experience contributing to proposals, bids, scope development, fee preparation, and project mobilization.
• Solid knowledge of scope, cost, risk, change, and contractual obligations.
• Experience with project controls, reporting, scheduling, budgeting, forecasting and risk management.
• Ability to take ownership, work independently, and manage multiple priorities in fast-paced projects.
• Ability to obtain and maintain necessary security clearances for assigned projects.

Responsibilities

• Lead and coordinate day-to-day delivery across major, complex projects and programmes, including mission critical and data center projects.
• Manage schedules, budgets, risks, actions, deliverables, reporting requirements, and changing priorities to support predictable project outcomes.
• Coordinate multidisciplinary teams, clients, stakeholders, and project interfaces across planning, design, procurement, construction, commissioning, and close-out.
• Drive project governance through risk registers, action logs, decision logs, forecasts, progress reporting, and timely escalation of emerging issues.
• Support proposals, bids, scopes of work, fee development, project mobilization, and client-focused solutions.
• Monitor scope, fees, costs, changes, contractual obligations, and commercial performance throughout delivery.
• Resolve issues early by taking ownership of actions and guiding practical solutions through to completion.
• Capture lessons learned and strengthen consistent project management practices across teams and future opportunities.

Skills

Project management

Coordination

Stakeholder management

Risk management

Budgeting & cost control

Scheduling & forecasting

Proposal development

Contract management

Job description

WSP in Canada is seeking a seasoned Project Manager to lead major, complex projects across mission-critical facilities and data centers in Victoria and beyond. You will coordinate multidisciplinary teams and manage planning, design, procurement, construction, commissioning, and close-out to ensure on-time, on-budget delivery.

You bring 5+ years of delivering complex programs, strong governance, and hands-on experience with planning, cost control, risk management, and stakeholder engagement.