Head of Renewables Electrical Engineering

This Opportunity

WSP is excited to announce an open position for Head of Renewables Electrical Engineering within the dynamic national Onshore Renewables Engineering Team. This is an outstanding opportunity to join WSP USA’s Energy team—ranked #2 on ENR’s 2024 engineering list for the Power sector and #4 overall—in a key leadership role. The successful candidate will play a pivotal part in driving client success and embracing the challenges of the Energy Transition, making a meaningful difference in the industry. Contributing to the continued growth of WSP’s Energy engineering footprint in the US market, this inspiring position is ideally based at our Boulder, CO or Houston, TX office.  

As one of the world’s leading professional services firms, WSP now brings world-class expertise in power delivery, power generation, and project management with the recent acquisition of POWER Engineers, Inc. Our vision is to be the preeminent pure-play global consulting firm for the world’s energy transition. And we need your help.

With over 73,000 multidisciplinary professionals worldwide, we collaborate daily to create positive, long-lasting impacts on the communities we serve through a culture of innovation, integrity and inclusion. In the U.S, WSP was recognized on TIME’s list of the world’s best companies and Fortune’s Change the World list.

As part of our team, you will have access to an unparalleled network of resources and endless opportunities to collaborate on exciting projects with diverse teammates from across the globe. 

This leader will provide client engagement, electrical balance of plant (BOP) subject matter expertise, and team leadership for due diligence, development, design, and construction phases of utility and commercial scale solar, wind, and BESS projects across the US, primarily in the private sector.  Some of the core tasks include BOP Electrical project and task delivery, and review, oversight, and guidance of delivery teams with occasional support with proposal & business development such as participating in key conferences and client meetings. This individual will provide situational guidance to PMs and managers that address current and future challenges, and that documentation and recommendations accurately account for and address risk, innovation, and future-ready opportunities.  Provides leadership with ensuring that responsibilities are delivered and adhered to with a level of quality that meets or exceeds acceptable industry standards for design, safety, and functionality. 

Your Impact

• Prepare, oversee, and review MV electrical collection designs and studies for solar and wind generating facilities, conforming to client specifications, national electrical codes, and best industry practices.
• Coordinate, review and approve electrical infrastructure design plans for mid-level and complex projects, ensuring data integrity and work is compliant with all applicable codes, ordinances, and regulations.
• Apply high-level electrical engineering techniques and processes to identify improvements for various infrastructure project phases involving more complex infrastructure engineering work including concept development, preliminary design, final design, procurement, construction, and operation.
• Perform professional electrical engineering work and conduct more complex/comprehensive investigations and inspections of proposed and existing site conditions, resources, facilities, generating plant layout and BESS general arrangement, grounding design and lightning protection, to determine conformance with applicable rules, standards, and construction or operating permits.
• Develop construction plans, specifications, and cost estimates; preparing construction safety and phasing plans, and updating infrastructure layout plans that require coordination with owners, other disciplines, sub-consultants, and clients.
• Oversees the development and implementation of future-ready technologies, monitoring devices, building materials, cabling, conduit and trenching design strategies, electrical design requirements, and operating strategies to account for the safety and functionality or end-users, systems, and infrastructure.
• Actively oversee from project inception to completion, the management of design and construction of electrical infrastructure projects, including rehabilitation and reconstruction, site development, grading, drainage, equipment layout, elevations, specifications, building materials, phasing, and construction safety plans.
• Lead larger-scale electrical engineering projects ensuring contributors know what they are required to do and by when, preparing and overseeing relevant project budgets, monitoring external events, tracking hours and expenses, ensuring satisfactory performance, and supervising subcontractors,