WSP

Senior Project Manager - Industrial

WSP$134K — $200K *
Manufacturing & Automotive
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Architecture, Construction Management, or a related field
  • Minimum 10+ years of experience managing industrial or manufacturing facilities-related projects
  • Proven experience leading project management and multidisciplinary design teams
  • Strong understanding of industrial facilities, manufacturing environments, and building systems
  • Experience with alternate construction delivery models on greenfield and brownfield projects
  • Excellent client management, communication, and leadership skills
  • Skilled at managing project financials, schedules, and contracts
  • PMP certification or PE license preferred, but not required

Responsibilities

  • Lead and manage complex industrial facilities projects from planning to closeout
  • Serve as the primary contact for clients to ensure project objectives are met
  • Coordinate multidisciplinary teams including architects and engineers
  • Develop and manage project execution plans, schedules, and budgets
  • Identify and implement risk mitigation strategies
  • Manage project financial performance including budgets and forecasting
  • Build and maintain strong client relationships to foster repeat business
  • Mentor junior project managers and assist in their professional growth
  • Support client development activities, including proposals and presentations
  • Collaborate with leadership on best practices and continuous improvement initiatives

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance
  • Disability and life insurance
  • Retirement savings plans
  • Paid sick leave and vacation
  • Paid parental leave
  • Paid time off for bereavement and voting
Full Job Description
Job Description

WSP is currently initiating a search for a Senior Project Manager/Team Leader to join our Industrial Center of Excellence (ICoE) national practice. This role will support a growing portfolio of industrial and advanced manufacturing projects and offers the opportunity to work within a collaborative multidisciplinary environment focused on delivering high-quality solutions to our clients. This position will regularly interact with client leadership teams to provide project management guidance and help support successful planning and execution of capital projects.

Your Impact

As a Senior Project Manager, you will be responsible for leading complex industrial facilities projects from planning through execution, while managing client relationships, project teams, schedules, and budgets.

Responsibilities
  • Lead and manage complex industrial facilities projects, including advanced manufacturing, distribution, and process-driven facilities, through planning, design, construction administration and closeout.
  • Serve as the primary point of contact for clients, ensuring project objectives, scope, schedule, and budget are achieved.
  • Coordinate multidisciplinary teams, including architectural, engineering, and specialty consultants.
  • Develop and manage project execution plans, schedules, staffing plans, and budgets.
  • Identify, monitor, and implement risk mitigation strategies to support successful delivery
  • Manage project financial performance, including budgets, forecasting, invoicing support, and resource utilization.
  • Develop and maintain strong client relationships that contribute to repeat business opportunities and long-term client satisfaction.
  • Mentor junior project managers and support their professional development.
  • Support key pursuits and client development activities by contributing technical, project delivery, and client relationship expertise. Participate in proposal development, interviews and client presentations, and pursuit planning efforts.
  • Contribute to a collaborative team environment through mentoring, knowledge sharing, and support of project staffing and resource planning efforts.
  • Collaborate closely with regional and national Industrial Center of Excellence leadership to share best practices and support continuous improvement initiatives.


Qualifications
  • Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Architecture, Construction Management, or a related field
  • Minimum 10+ years of experience managing industrial or manufacturing facilities-related projects
  • Proven experience leading project management and multidisciplinary design teams including direct and indirect reporting team members and partners.
  • Strong understanding of industrial facilities, manufacturing environments, and building systems
  • Experienced with alternate construction delivery models on greenfield and brownfield industrial projects including new construction, facility and system upgrades, and facility retrofits
  • Excellent client management, communication, and leadership skills
  • Skilled at managing project financials, schedules, and contracts
  • PMP certification or PE license preferred, but not required

Preferred Experience
  • Advanced manufacturing or industrial facilities project experience
  • Experience working with large, complex projects and multiple stakeholders
  • Familiarity with design-build or alternative delivery methods


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: $134,700 - $200,100

WSP USA is providing the compensation range that the company in good faith believes it might pay and/or offer for this position within the state of Colorado, based on the successful applicant's education, experience, knowledge, skills, and 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.

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About WSP

WSP is a Canadian engineering consulting firm that provides services to transform the built environment and restore the natural environment. The firm's expertise ranges from environmental remediation and urban planning, to engineering iconic buildings and designing sustainable transport networks, to developing the energy sources of the future and enabling new ways of extracting essential resources. It has approximately 54,000 employees, including engineers, technicians, scientists, architects, planners, surveyors, program and construction management professionals, and various environmental experts. WSP has offices in more than 40 countries and territories around the world.
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