WSP

Senior Project Manager - Industrial

WSP$119K — $177K *
Manufacturing & Automotive
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Architecture, Construction Management, or related field
  • Minimum 10+ years experience in managing industrial or manufacturing facilities projects
  • Proven track record leading project management and interdisciplinary teams
  • Strong understanding of industrial facilities and building systems
  • Experience with various construction delivery models, including greenfield and brownfield projects
  • Excellent client management, communication, and leadership skills
  • Ability to manage project financials, schedules, and contracts effectively

Responsibilities

  • Lead complex industrial facilities projects from planning to execution
  • Develop and implement business strategies to drive growth and team expansion
  • Build and manage a client portfolio as Program Manager/Leader
  • Anticipate project issues and guide teams to mitigate risks
  • Serve as primary client contact to ensure project goals are met
  • Coordinate with multidisciplinary teams, including architects and engineers
  • Oversee project planning, scheduling, and staffing, ensuring optimal resource allocation
  • Manage financial performance across projects and teams
  • Support business development through proposal writing and client presentations
  • Mentor junior project managers and foster their professional growth

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage
  • Disability and life insurance
  • Retirement savings plan
  • Paid sick leave and vacation time
  • Paid parental leave
  • Paid time off for bereavement, voting, and naturalization proceedings
Full Job Description
Job Description

WSP is currently initiating a search for a Project Manager 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 include advisory interaction with our clients' leadership and executive teams, guiding them in decisions around their most important CAPEX initiatives.

Be involved in impactful projects with our Property & Buildings / Industrial team and be part of a global organization that is driven by innovation, technical excellence, and a commitment to client success.

Your Impact

As a 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
  • Primary driver on critical pursuits, responsible for developing and implementing winning strategies for expanding our business and facilitating team growth.
  • Build and manage a book of business as Program Manager/Leader, mentoring other PMs into similar roles growing our large client base
  • Foresees and anticipates project issues, provides guidance to mitigate risks
  • Lead and manage industrial facilities projects, including advanced manufacturing, distribution, and process-driven facilities
  • Serve as the primary point of contact for clients, ensuring project objectives, scope, schedule, and budget are met
  • Coordinate multidisciplinary teams, including architectural, engineering, and specialty consultants
  • Oversee project planning, scheduling, and staffing
  • Financial performance management for both projects and teams
  • Support business development efforts, including proposal development and client presentations
  • Identify and mitigate project risks while ensuring quality, safety, and compliance with WSP standards
  • Mentor and support junior project managers and technical staff
  • Collaborate closely with regional and national ICoE leadership

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: $119,600- $177,700

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 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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