Vice President, Electrical Engineer Practice Leader

Socket.dev; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 164,000 - 243,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Benefits package

Flexible workplace model

Job summary

WSP USA in Austin seeks a Vice President, Electrical Engineer Practice Leader to guide delivery of electrical building systems across commercial, healthcare, data centers, and mission-critical facilities. This is a senior leadership role focused on technical excellence, client trust, and growth in Central Texas.

You will mentor teams, oversee complex projects as Engineer of Record or technical reviewer, and drive a market-facing growth strategy.

Qualifications

• PE license required.
• 12+ years of progressive electrical design and project leadership experience.
• Experience managing large multidisciplinary building projects.
• Strong business development and client management experience.
• Excellent communication and relationship-building skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead planning, design, and delivery of electrical building systems for complex projects.
• Lead, grow the Austin electrical team.
• Serve as Engineer of Record or technical reviewer with oversight for complex systems.
• Develop and execute a market-facing growth strategy for Central Texas.
• Support business development: client presentations, pursuits, proposals, and negotiations.
• Provide executive-level project leadership for scope, schedule, quality, and cost.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams across disciplines.
• Build and develop a high-performing electrical engineering team with clear expectations and succession plans.
• Contribute to strategic planning, resource management and operations.
• Support recruiting and workforce planning initiatives.
• Promote innovation, resilience, sustainability and best practices.

Skills

Leadership

Business development

Client management

Mentoring

Communication

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering or Architectural Engineering

Job description

Who We Are

At WSP, we are driven by inspiring future-ready pioneers to innovate. We're looking to grow our Property & Buildings team in Austin with a seasoned electrical engineering leader who is passionate about delivering complex building projects, mentoring teams, and driving business growth across diverse market sectors.

Opportunity

WSP is seeking a Vice President, Electrical Engineer Practice Leader to join our growing Property & Buildings practice in Austin, TX. This leadership role will focus on the delivery of electrical engineering services for a wide range of building projects, including commercial, healthcare, science and technology, data centers, aviation, mission-critical, industrial, civic, and institutional building market sectors.

The successful candidate will serve as a technical leader, trusted client advisor, project executive, and business development champion. This individual will play a key role in expanding WSP's presence in Central Texas while supporting multidisciplinary project teams and fostering a culture of technical excellence and collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Lead the planning, design, and delivery of electrical building systems for complex new construction and renovation projects.

• Lead, build and grow the Austin electrical team

• Serve as Engineer of Record, technical principal, or executive reviewer, as appropriate, and provide technical oversight for complex electrical building systems.

• Develop and execute a market-facing growth strategy for electrical engineering services in Central Texas, including cultivating client relationships, identifying opportunities, leading strategic pursuits, and expanding services with existing clients.

• Support business development efforts, including client presentations, pursuit strategies, proposal development, and contract negotiations.
• Provide executive-level project leadership, ensuring successful delivery related to scope, schedule, quality, and financial performance.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams including mechanical, structural, civil, architecture, and specialty consultants.
• Build, lead, and develop a high-performing electrical engineering team by establishing clear technical expectations, supporting career development, strengthening succession plans, and fostering collaboration across offices and disciplines.
• Contribute to strategic planning, resource management, and business operations within the Property & Buildings practice.
• Support recruiting, workforce planning, and succession planning initiatives.
• Promote innovation, resilience, sustainability, and best practices in building systems design.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering or Architectural Engineering
• Professional Engineer (PE) license required.
• 12+ years of progressive experience in electrical engineering design and project leadership for building projects.
• Demonstrated experience managing large-scale multidisciplinary building projects.
• Proven success in business development, client management, and revenue growth.
• Strong understanding of building electrical systems, including Medium-voltage distribution, Utility coordination, Standby and emergency power, Electrical resilience and redundancy, Renewable energy and electrification, Energy-code compliance, Short-circuit, coordination, and arc-flash studies, Complex renovations and occupied facilities, Construction-phase technical support, applicable codes, and industry standards.
• Experience leading high-performing engineering teams and mentoring technical staff.
• Excellent communication, presentation, and relationship-building skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience serving as a Project Executive, Discipline Lead, or Practice Leader.
• Established relationships within the Austin and Texas building design community.
• Experience supporting commercial, institutional, mixed-use, corporate, municipal, or higher education projects.

WSP Benefits

WSP provides a comprehensive suite of benefits focused on a providing health and financial stability throughout the employee’s career. These benefits include coverage related to medical, dental, vision, disability, and life; retirement savings; paid sick leave; paid vacation (or other personal time); paid parental leave; and paid time off for purposes of bereavement, voting, and/or attendance at naturalization proceedings.

Compensation

Expected Salary (all locations): $163,800 - $243,200

WSP USA is providing the compensation range that the company in good faith believes it might pay and offer for this position, based on the successful applicant’s education, experience, knowledge, skills, abilities in addition to internal equity and specific geographic location. WSP USA reserves the right to ultimately pay more or less than the posted range and offer additional benefits and other compensation, depending on circumstances not related to an applicant’s sex or other status protected by local, state, and/or federal law.

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. WSP USA designs lasting solutions in the buildings, transportation, energy, water and environment markets. With more than 15,000 employees in over 300 offices across the U.S., we partner with our clients to help communities prosper.

www.wsp.com

WSP provides a flexible and agile workplace model while meeting client needs. Employees are also afforded a comprehensive suite of benefits including medical, dental, vision, disability, life, and retirement savings focused on providing health and financial stability throughout the employee’s career.

At WSP, we want to give our employees the challenges they seek to grow their careers and knowledge base. Your daily contributions to your team will be essential in meeting client objectives, goals and challenges. Are you ready to get started?

WSP USA (and all of its U.S. companies) is an Equal Opportunity Employer Race/Age/Color/Religion/Sex/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity/National Origin/Disability or Protected Veteran Status.

The selected candidate must be authorized to work in the United States.