Senior Program Director (Power & Energy) - Remote

WSP Global Inc.; Freeport (ME); À distance; USD 180 000 - 240 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

WSP is seeking a Senior Program Director to lead large-scale Power & Energy programs in the Maine region. The role provides oversight for delivery, budgets, and performance across the EHV Transmission & Distribution sector. Travel to client offices for face-to-face meetings is expected as needed.

You will guide project teams, manage risk and contract obligations, and provide strategic advice to clients while upholding safety and quality standards.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or related field
• 15+ years of relevant post-education project management experience
• Master’s degree preferred
• PMP or equivalent certification preferred
• Strong analytical and organizational skills

Responsabilités

• Lead the most complex and largest scale programs within the Power & Energy portfolio, ensuring budgets, forecasts, margins, KPIs, and risk controls are managed.
• Engage stakeholders at all levels, maintain relationships, and report progress to clients and leadership.
• Participate in contract negotiations, presentations, and client meetings to secure favorable outcomes.
• Ensure profitable delivery and successful completion of all projects within the defined area/portfolio.
• Provide leadership to multi-disciplinary teams and offer strategic advice to clients.
• Develop and maintain governance documentation (RMP, PMP, QP, PSP, communications) per requirements.
• Lead program governance meetings, identify root causes, and drive corrective actions and continuous improvement.
• Develop project recovery plans and corrective strategies for budget overruns with clients.
• Ensure regular reporting to clients and internal stakeholders, flagging scope, risk, or budget issues.
• Close out projects formally and gather lessons learned for future improvements.

Description du poste

This Opportunity

WSP is seeking a Senior Program Director (Power and Energy) for our Power & Energy Program Management Office. The successful candidate is preferred to be located in the Maine region the ability to travel to a WSP and/or Client office for periodic face-to-face meetings. This position provides leadership, definition, and oversight pertaining to the consistent delivery of large scale/highly complex programs within the Extra High Voltage (EHV) Transmission and Distribution sector.

Your Impact

• Lead the most complex and largest scale projects within the organization, ensuring contributors know what they are required to do and by when, preparing and overseeing relevant project budgets, forecasts, margins and KPIs, monitoring external events and risk contingencies, tracking hours and expenses, ensuring QA/QC and satisfactory performance, and managing the contractual obligations to deliver the project or assigned portfolio of assigned project(s) as defined in the contract.
• Foster effective and proactive strategies to engage project stakeholders at all levels, maintain effective relationships, and report on project progress.
• Participate in the technical aspects of contract negotiation, presentations, and meetings.
• Accountable for the profitable performance and successful completion of all individual projects within the specified area or portfolio.
• Provide leadership to multi-disciplinary project teams and contribute to providing high level strategic advice to clients.
• Provide performance guidance and proactive leadership to assigned managers and staff.
• Develop, maintain, and update Project Initiation and governance documentation, including Risk Registers (REF/RMP), Project Management Plans (PMP), Project Quality Plans (QP), Project Safety Plans (PSP), and Communications Plans, in accordance with WSP and client requirements.
• Lead project management discipline meetings, addressing root cause issues and potential solutions, leveraging opportunities for improvement in area of responsibility, and providing updates and recommendations to staff that ensure all appropriate measures are taken to foster innovation, development, and quality project delivery.
• Lead the development of project recovery plans, including team input for developing strategy for correcting project budget and overrun issues with the client.
• Ensure regular project reporting and updates are provided to clients, technical areas, and business unit managers, identifying any emergent issues with scope, risk, and/or budget.
• Ensure the completion of all formal project closeout activities, along with the facilitation and documentation of a lessons-learned meeting with key project staff.
• Collaborate with professionals and leadership from a variety of disciplines to provide “trusted advisor” service and future ready solutions for clients.
• Exercise responsible and ethical decision-making regarding company funds, resources and conduct, and adhere to WSP’s Code of Conduct and related policies and procedures.
• Perform additional responsibilities as required by business needs.

Who You Are

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, science, or a related major, or equivalent experience in a technical or engineering firm.
• 15+ years of relevant post education experience in a project management role within our industry.
• Advanced-level understanding of the project delivery process within the A/E/C industry, and an extensive background and experience in large-scale project management. Experience managing projects through a variety of delivery models (DBB, EPC, PDB).
• Advanced knowledge and proficiency with analytical and organizational skills, with business acumen to bridge business and project management.
• Strong working knowledge of corporate project management principles, practices, process, delivery, execution, and the business impact upon the organization.
• Demonstrated exceptional ability with establishing, implementing, and managing multiple larger scale/complex projects, programs, documents, systems, and practices.
• Excellent self-leadership and interpersonal communication skills with the ability to manage staff, and effectively, persuasively, and tactfully interact with employees at all levels of the organization.
• Strategic lateral thinking and strong analytical skills with attention to detail and prioritization of responsibilities in a pressure work environment.
• Ability to elicit cooperation from a wide variety of sources, including senior management, subcontractors, consultants, suppliers, clients, and company-wide staff, including those with whom no formal hierarchical relationship exits.
• Advanced knowledge and proficiency with technical writing, office automation, relevant software, MS Office suite products (e.g., Word, Excel, Visio, Project, SharePoint), technology, spreadsheets, and PM tools.
• Proven track record of upholding workplace safety and ability to abide by WSP’s health, safety and drug/alcohol and harassment policies.
• Strong ability to quickly adapt to change and demonstrate flexibility to a variety of schedules and hours to meet business needs.
• Travel may be required depending on project-specific requirements.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s Degree.
• Essential project management certification (e.g., PMP, CAP-M).