Senior Owner’s Rep, Buildings Engineering – NYC

WSP Global Inc.; New York (NY); On-site; USD 116,000 - 145,000; Full time

Job summary

WSP USA Buildings Inc in New York, NY is seeking a Senior Professional – Owner’s Representative, Buildings Engineering to provide day-to-day technical support, project coordination, and delivery services for owner’s representative assignments.

You will work under senior team members, advance planning and design reviews, support procurement and construction-phase activities, and help prepare client reports while maintaining quality, schedule, and budget considerations.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, architecture, construction management, or related field.
• Typically 5–7 years of relevant experience in building engineering, project delivery, construction administration, owner’s representative services, technical coordination, or related capital project support roles.
• Working knowledge of building systems, project delivery phases, consultant coordination, procurement processes, and construction-phase documentation.
• Ability to work independently on defined assignments, manage multiple tasks, and exercise judgment based on analysis of project information from several sources.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to prepare organized documentation and clearly communicate status, issues, and next steps.
• Proficiency with common project management, document control, and collaboration tools used to support multidisciplinary project delivery.
• Progress toward professional licensure or industry credentials such as EIT, PE, RA, PMP, CCM, or similar is desirable.

Responsibilities

• Lead defined project support tasks for assigned owner’s representative projects by coordinating project information, maintaining action trackers, monitoring deliverables, and helping keep project activities organized and on schedule.
• Assist with planning studies, existing conditions reviews, technical assessments, options analyses, and development of owner decision-support materials.
• Review project documents, drawings, reports, and submittal-related information for consistency, completeness, and alignment with owner requirements and project objectives.
• Coordinate input from internal technical teams and external project participants to support design reviews, procurement activities, construction-phase services, and closeout tasks.
• Prepare meeting notes, status summaries, logs, presentations, and written client support materials with clear documentation of key issues, decisions, and follow-up actions.
• Track project scope, schedule milestones, open issues, and risk items, and elevate concerns to project leadership when attention or resolution is needed.
• Participate in meetings, workshops, field reviews, and site visits to gather information, document observations, and support coordination among stakeholders.
• Support procurement and contracting activities through document assembly, bid process coordination, evaluation support, and administrative follow-through.
• Contribute to construction-phase support by tracking questions, changes, submittals, and outstanding issues affecting owner priorities, schedule, budget, or quality.
• Assist with commissioning coordination, punch list tracking, turnover documentation, and operational readiness activities during project closeout.
• Apply established tools, templates, and best practices while exercising sound judgment on moderately complex assignments, proactively identifying issues, and seeking guidance on unusual or high-risk matters.
• Act as a dependable resource to peers and project teams by sharing information, following through on commitments, and contributing to consistent, high-quality delivery.
• Contribute to proposal preparation, marketing materials, or pursuit support activities related to owner’s representative services, as needed.

Skills

Project coordination

Written and verbal communication

Independent work

Multitasking

Education

Bachelor’s degree in engineering or related field

Tools

Project management tools

Document control systems

Job description

WSP USA Buildings Inc in New York, NY is seeking a Senior Professional – Owner’s Representative, Buildings Engineering to provide day-to-day technical support, project coordination, and delivery services for owner’s representative assignments.

You will work under senior team members, advance planning and design reviews, support procurement and construction-phase activities, and help prepare client reports while maintaining quality, schedule, and budget considerations.