Southwest Mountain Structures Team Lead

WSP in the U.S.; Denver (CO); On-site; USD 190,000 - 300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Retirement savings

Paid time off

Parental leave

Job summary

WSP USA is seeking a Southwest Mountain Structures Team Lead to guide district-level structural projects across multiple states from Denver to Utah. You will lead multi-disciplinary teams, manage budgets and schedules, and drive growth for infrastructure initiatives in the region.

Join a collaborative, safety-conscious firm with opportunities to influence policy, mentor engineers, and expand the project portfolio while ensuring high-quality, compliant delivery.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Structural or Civil Engineering with 15+ years of post-education experience.
• Engineer license required (multi-state preferred).
• Advanced proficiency with structural and civil design principles and code compliance.
• Proven leadership and ability to manage large, complex projects across multiple teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead the most complex structural projects, manage budgets and schedules.
• Develop business opportunities and project pipelines in the assigned region.
• Negotiate contracts and present to clients and stakeholders.
• Ensure compliance with federal, state, and local codes and safety policies.

Skills

Leadership

Project Management

Structural Engineering

Stakeholder Communication

Regulatory Compliance

Travel Flexibility

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Structural or Civil Engineering

Professional Engineer (PE) license

Tools

MicroStation

AutoCAD

Civil 3D

ArcGIS

HEC-RAS

HEC-HMS

STADD

ANSYS

Job description

Southwest Mountain Structures Team Lead

WSP is currently initiating a search for a District leadership role. The following locations will be considered: Denver, CO; Tempe, AZ; Tucson, AZ; Las Cruces, NM; Albuquerque, NM; and South Jordan, UT. Be involved in projects with our Southwest Mountain Structures Team and be part of a growing organization that meets client objectives and solves challenges.

Your Impact

• Provide proactive and strategic process and people leadership for the design, implementation, and administration of engineering discipline’s project and program involvement within the organization.
• Lead the most complex and largest scale structural engineering projects within the discipline, ensuring contributors know what they are required to do and by when, preparing and overseeing relevant project budgets, monitoring internal and external events, tracking hours and expenses, ensuring satisfactory performance and profitability, and supervising subcontractors, contract work, and employees.
• Responsible for the pursuit and development of business and the successful execution of work for current and potential building and infrastructure work within a geography specifically for the large projects within the area.
• Lead technical aspects of contract negotiation, presentations, and meetings.
• Drive the overall long-term strategy, growth, and pipeline development of Structural Engineering work for WSP in the assigned area of responsibility, with a focus on infrastructure opportunities in all disciplines (planning, design, strategic consulting, and program/construction management).
• Accountable for the profitable performance of the individual projects and the successful completion of the projects within the specified area.
• Drive compliance and accountability at all levels with applicable Federal, State, and Local engineering/design/construction laws, codes, policies, and regulatory requirements.
• Oversee internal vision and mission for the engineering discipline, ensuring alignment with business operations strategy, and maintaining that certifications, accreditations, and client value ratings are continuously improved.
• Lead engineering discipline meetings and continuing educational opportunities for the area of responsibility, providing updates and recommendations to staff that ensure all appropriate measures are taken to foster innovation, development, and quality project delivery within the discipline.
• Serve as the engineering discipline’s representative/liaison to a variety of external entities including Federal, State, and Local Agencies, Clients, Subcontractors, industry-related groups, and various government and community entities.
• Provide senior leadership for proposals and project work scopes, pricing, budget, and performance metrics for the engineering discipline.
• Provide discipline leadership to multi-disciplinary project teams and contribute to providing high level strategic advice to clients.
• Provides performance guidance and proactive leadership to assigned managers and staff.
• Develop high-level business contacts and a client base for providing high level structural engineering services including identifying additional business development opportunities, and cross-selling of other WSP capabilities.
• Collaborate with professionals from a variety of disciplines to provide 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.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Structural or Civil Engineering, or closely related discipline.
• 15+ years of relevant post-education experience in engineering, structural/civil and infrastructure design.
• Engineer license required (multi-state preferred).
• Advanced proficiency with structural engineering principles, practices, process, design/build, standard of care, and the application to permitting and project work-related issues.
• Extensive advanced proficiency with building and infrastructure design.
• Advanced knowledge of relevant structural and civil construction laws, codes, regulations, compliance practices, and record-keeping requirements, and the business impact upon the organization.
• Demonstrated ability with establishing, implementing, and managing multiple larger-scale discipline-related programs, documents, projects, and practices for a line(s) of business.
• Excellent 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, clients, and company-wide staff, including those with whom no formal hierarchical relationship exists.
• Strong ability to quickly adapt to change and demonstrate flexibility to a variety of schedules and hours to meet business needs.
• Advanced knowledge and proficiency with office automation, discipline-specific design software (i.e., MicroStation, AutoCAD, Civil 3D, ArcGIS, InRoads, Geopak, GeoSlope, ANSYS, STADD, HEC-RAS, HEC-HMS), technology, math principles, physics, predictive models, spreadsheets, and tools used in the corporate environment.
• Proven track record of upholding workplace safety and ability to abide by WSP’s health, safety and drug/alcohol and harassment policies.
• Occasional travel may be required depending on project-specific requirements.

Benefits

WSP provides a comprehensive suite of benefits focused on health and financial stability throughout the employee’s career. Benefits include medical, dental, vision, disability, and life coverage; retirement savings; paid sick leave; paid vacation; paid parental leave; and paid time off for bereavement, voting, and naturalization proceedings.

Compensation

Expected Salary (all locations): $170,000–$283,500. WSP reserves the right to ultimately pay more or less than the posted range and offer additional benefits and compensation, depending on circumstances not related to an applicant’s protected status. Expected Salary (Colorado only): $190,000–$300,000.

About WSP

WSP USA is the U.S. operating company of WSP, one of the world’s leading engineering and professional services firms. Dedicated to serving local communities, we are engineers, planners, technical experts, strategic advisors, and construction management professionals. With more than 15,000 employees in over 300 offices across the U.S., we partner with our clients to help communities prosper.

Equal Opportunity Employer

WSP is an Equal Opportunity Employer under federal, state, and local law. The selected candidate must be authorized to work in the United States.

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