Data Center Energy Infrastructure Team Leader

WSP USA is seeking an Energy Infrastructure Data Center Leader to join our Power & Energy Advanced Complimentary Services (ACS) team. The selected candidate may be assigned to any WSP USA office. This is a unique opportunity to take on a key leadership role in shaping and delivering complex energy infrastructure projects in the data center market. You will help WSP fully leverage the capabilities of all Power & Energy teams to meet critical energy challenges in the U.S. market.  

This Opportunity 

This seller-doer leadership position focuses on engaging with clients directly and creating fast tiger teams to solve the upfront energy challenges created by data centers of all sizes. You will have the ability to grow an internal team as well as work across business lines and verticals. This is a fast paced, quick turn environment where previous experience as a developer or working with developers is critical. 

Key Responsibilities

• Client Engagement: Collaborate with Business Development teams, Sector Leaders, and Global Client Program (GCP) to identify and pursue high-value opportunities. Represent WSP in front of a variety of data center and energy clients. 
• Solution Development: Listen to client needs and assemble multidisciplinary WSP teams—including international resources—to deliver holistic, responsive solutions.
• Team Building: Build a team from scratch to 5+senior project/engineering professionals to meet market demand. These team members will be internal and external hires, with the following possible roles:
  • Senior Substation Engineer
  • Junior Substation Engineer
  • T-Line / Interconnection Specialist
  • MV Distribution Specialist
  • Studies Engineer
• Project Delivery Leadership: Act as Principal-In-Charge, providing technical oversight and leadership for early phase project development support and Owner’s Engineer (OE) services for clients developing and procuring infrastructure.
• Market Advancement: Drive WSP’s market growth objectives through cross-business line development, team leadership, and operational excellence.

Your Impact

Clients

• Bring an expanded view and integrated response to complex client challenges by leveraging our full suite of offerings across all end markets.
• Utilize our extended reach of technical and subject matter experts (SMEs) across the US and globally to foster new and innovative client delivery.
• Strategically support key WSP market sectors as their clients seek to engage the Energy Transition and/or solve for energy constraints.  Specific to fast moving industries such as Data Centers, develop leading approaches for meeting the industry’s demand for speed and resilience.
• Represent WSP as the “face of the company” with clients, industry, and within WSP.

People & Culture

• Serve as a leader alongside other business and technical leaders within WSP.  
• Attract the best industry talent by fostering a work environment that is collaborative, values inclusion and diversity and invites broad, creative thinking – crafting a more attractive place to work, grow and thrive.
• Emphasize employee training and development to create a unique work experience.
• Inspire, motivate, and promote the best of WSP to our clients and communities to ensure strong employee engagement and morale.
• Desire to work with automation solutions and global support staff to build capacity and scale.
• Support programs such as Safety, Sustainability and Ethics & Compliance

 Operational Excellence

• Maintain regular contact with other business lines and interested WSP parties to ensure they are aware of and can engage ACS to support their clients and project development as opportunities arise.
• Collaborate with leadership to strategically drive the business, assess, and suggest improvements