Senior Legal Counsel

Join WSP's Canadian Legal team, supporting operations across Canada, with a focus on the Transportation & Infrastructure sector.

As a Senior Legal Counsel, you will provide practical, strategic legal guidance across the project life cycle and help teams pursue complex opportunities with clarity and confidence.

Key responsibilities include:

• Advising Canadian Operations on the negotiation, drafting, and interpretation of contracts, with a focus on Transportation & Infrastructure.
• Guiding project teams with strategic, timely legal advice throughout the full project life cycle.
• Drafting and reviewing legal documents, including WSP contract templates, commercial agreements, and project-specific documentation.
• Reviewing and helping negotiate public and private RFPs and supporting service offers for major, strategic, and alternative-delivery projects.
• Assessing business opportunities and risk profiles, and presenting clear recommendations to internal risk committees for bid approval.
• Promoting compliance with WSP's authorization matrix, corporate policies, governance requirements, and applicable laws and regulations.
• Partnering with the Claims & Litigation Team on contractual disputes and claims, and participating in internal and external stakeholder meetings.
• Supporting ongoing projects and the broader Legal Team with responsive legal advice in the normal course of business.

Requirements:

• Membership in good standing with a Canadian provincial bar.
• At least 5 years of relevant legal experience, preferably in-house, with exposure to transportation and infrastructure projects, construction, or engineering.
• Experience drafting, reviewing, and negotiating commercial agreements in the construction or engineering industry.
• Experience with traditional and alternative delivery models, including collaborative agreements, progressive design-build, integrated project delivery, and related joint venture, teaming, and partnering agreements.
• Ability to translate complex legal concepts into clear, practical guidance for senior management, executives, and multidisciplinary stakeholders.
• Strong business judgement, risk-management capability, conflict-resolution skills, and the ability to manage multiple urgent priorities.
• High degree of autonomy, initiative, organisation, and attention to detail, combined with a collaborative legal-service mindset.
• Bilingualism in French and English is an asset; proficiency with Microsoft 365 is required.

This hybrid role requires at least 3 days per week in the office.

Compensation:

• AB, BC, NT, NU, SK & YT: $114,600 - $151,800
• MB & ON: $104,500 - $143,900
• NB, NL, NS, PE & QC: $103,500 - $137,400