Generation Project Development Leader (Power & Energy)

This Opportunity

WSP is currently initiating a search for a Generation Project Development Leader.

WSP USA has an exciting opportunity to play a key leadership role in WSP's Power & Energy engineering team, fully realizing the value of the combined Power Engineers and WSP team and continuing to expand our impact across the US market. This is an operational role responsible for team engagement, business growth, and performance with market sector focus on supporting our customers through the concept and development phases of their projects – specifically, Owner’s Engineering and other similar consultative scopes. The responsibilities for this role encompass all types of generation – inclusive of thermal and renewable infrastructure.

Key objectives for this role will include: 

• Create and deploy a plan to drive greater value from key customers including potential for growth in portfolio-level Owner’s Engineers scopes or other repeatable/programmic work.
• Ideate, define, and deliver plans to support key tactical activities to support growth.
• Along with Business Development teams and the Global Client Program (GCP) goals, support a strong focus on key customers and opportunities that create the greatest value.
• Alongside Business Development, listen to customers to understand their needs and formulate WSP teams to provide solutions they require in a responsive manner. In order to provide holistic solutions that complement Generations’ core domain knowledge, the leader would draw from key resources across P&E and other WSP businesses (including internationally as needed) to prepare these solutions (e.g. interconnection and transmission studies, environmental due diligence, geotechnical support, planning).
• While team staff is expected to be base loaded with Generation’s existing core detailed engineering staff, key hires will be needed with sufficient development experience needed to be effective in a dynamic environment.
• Where appropriate, guide select opportunities to position for conversion of Owner’s Engineering projects to detailed engineering.
• Manage existing team delivering Independent Engineering scopes. Coordinate growth for this offering in consultation with the Advisory business line.

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 grow and drive performance of our generation engineering market share across the U.S. working with project owners, developers, and EPC clients.
• Represent WSP as the “face of the company” across the US with clients, industry, and within WSP.

People & Culture

• Serve as a leader alongside with Generation Leadership, Team Leads, other local/regional WSP leaders, and the broader P&E team to 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.
• 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 and planning to support generation project development and concept design opportunities as they arise.
• Collaborate with leadership to strategically drive the business, assess, and suggest improvements for project performance, oversee overhead expenditures, and focus on Key Performance Indicators (KPIs):   Sales, Funding, EBITDA, Staff Hiring and Retention, DSO, Utilization, Backlog, Inclusion & Diversity and Guiding Principles.
• Develop local growth forecast and business development strategy in collaboration with Team Leads and Leadership. 
• Resolve conflicts and other internal/external issues that may arise in the office, amongst WSP’s client base, or on projects.