# Vice President, MEP Healthcare Lead - Buildings **Company**: WSP **Location**: Seattle, WA **Experience**: executive **Job type**: full-time **Category**: Engineering **Industry**: Healthcare **Apply**: https://emit.fa.ca3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/CandidateExperience/en/sites/CX_2001/job/96450?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_7acdbe94-eb6 ## Description WSP is currently seeking a Vice President, Healthcare Lead to join our Property & Buildings team in Seattle, WA. This is a senior leadership opportunity for an accomplished Mechanical or Electrical Engineer with deep healthcare facility experience and a strong record of developing client relationships, leading strategic pursuits, and delivering complex multidisciplinary healthcare projects. **Responsibilities** ### Healthcare Market Leadership and Growth - Lead the development and execution of a healthcare market growth strategy for Seattle, the Pacific Northwest, and other priority regional markets. - Strengthen WSP’s position as a trusted advisor to healthcare systems, facility owners, architects, contractors, developers, and strategic partners. - Identify emerging healthcare market trends, capital programs, client needs, and partnership opportunities that support sustainable business growth. - Develop and maintain an active healthcare opportunity pipeline aligned with local, regional, and national business priorities. - Establish measurable growth objectives and help translate market strategy into client-development, pursuit, and project-delivery activities. - Collaborate with regional and national healthcare leaders to coordinate client strategies, market intelligence, investment priorities, and cross-selling opportunities. - Represent WSP within healthcare industry organizations, professional associations, conferences, and community events. - Promote WSP’s integrated healthcare capabilities across mechanical, electrical, plumbing, fire protection, structural, technology, sustainability, commissioning, and specialty services. ### Client Leadership and Business Development - Build, maintain, and expand senior-level relationships with healthcare clients and key industry partners. - Serve as an executive-level client advisor, helping healthcare organizations address complex facility, infrastructure, operational, resilience, and sustainability challenges. - Lead strategic client engagement, account planning, capture planning, and positioning activities for major healthcare opportunities. - Lead or contribute to go/no-go decisions, pursuit strategies, proposals, technical narratives, interviews, presentations, scope development, fee development, and contract negotiations. - Develop strong relationships with architects, contractors, program managers, owners’ representatives, and specialty consultants active in the healthcare market. - Identify opportunities to expand services with existing clients and introduce WSP capabilities across multiple disciplines and business lines. - Maintain accountability for client satisfaction, relationship continuity, and the development of repeat business. - Translate complex engineering and infrastructure concepts into clear, compelling business and client value propositions. ### Healthcare Project and Technical Leadership - Provide executive and technical leadership for complex healthcare projects from early planning and programming through design, construction, commissioning, occupancy, and closeout. - Serve as a senior advisor, project executive, technical principal, or discipline leader, as appropriate, based on project and client needs. - Guide integrated mechanical, electrical, plumbing, fire protection, structural, technology, sustainability, and commissioning teams in delivering coordinated healthcare solutions. - Provide oversight of project scope, schedule, staffing, budget, quality, risk, financial performance, and client satisfaction. - Support the development of reliable, resilient, maintainable, and sustainable building systems for complex clinical environments. - Guide teams in addressing healthcare-specific priorities such as patient and staff safety, infection prevention, redundancy, emergency operations, infrastructure resilience, phasing, constructability, maintainability, and continuity of operations. - Provide executive oversight on renovations, expansions, replacements, and new construction within active or occupied healthcare environments. - Lead or participate in technical reviews, peer reviews, design workshops, value analysis, risk reviews, constructability reviews, and quality assurance activities. - Ensure project teams consider applicable healthcare codes, standards, regulatory requirements, accreditation considerations, and local authority requirements. - Facilitate resolution of complex technical, contractual, financial, staffing, and client-service challenges. - Promote innovation, electrification, decarbonization, energy efficiency, resilience, digital delivery, and future-ready healthcare infrastructure solutions. ### People and Practice Leadership - Build, lead, mentor, and develop multidisciplinary healthcare teams across Seattle and the broader region. - Foster a collaborative culture focused on healthcare expertise, technical excellence, accountability, innovation, and exceptional client service. - Partner with leadership and Talent Acquisition on strategic recruiting, workforce planning, succession planning, and retention efforts. - Identify and develop future healthcare market leaders, project executives, client leaders, technical experts, and project managers. - Coach staff on client engagement, business development, healthcare project delivery, multidisciplinary collaboration, and executive communication. - Support resource planning and the effective deployment of talent across offices, disciplines, and healthcare programs. - Encourage knowledge sharing and collaboration across WSP’s regional, national, and global healthcare network. - Promote an inclusive environment that supports professional growth, employee engagement, safety, ethics, and high performance. - Contribute to healthcare-focused training, technical communities, lessons learned, best practices, and quality improvement initiatives. ### Operational and Strategic Leadership - Contribute to strategic planning, annual business planning, forecasting, budgeting, and performance monitoring for the healthcare practice. - Support healthcare revenue growth, backlog development, project profitability, utilization, staffing, and resource management goals. - Monitor the health of the healthcare pipeline and help align staffing and investment decisions with anticipated workload. - Collaborate with local and regional leaders to improve project performance, operational consistency, quality, and risk management. - Ensure responsible and ethical decision-making related to company funds, resources, contracts, client relationships, and professional conduct. - Adhere to WSP’s Code of Conduct and applicable safety, quality, risk, and compliance requirements. - Exercise sound professional judgment and provide pragmatic leadership within a changing healthcare and business environment. **Requirements** - Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Architectural Engineering, or a closely related engineering discipline. - 12+ years of progressive professional experience in engineering, design, project delivery, and leadership within the Property & Buildings or A/E/C industry. - Significant experience supporting the planning, design, and delivery of healthcare facilities, including hospitals, medical centers, outpatient facilities, specialty clinical spaces, research facilities, or healthcare campus infrastructure. - Professional Engineer PE license required, with the ability to obtain Washington licensure if not currently held. - Demonstrated success developing and maintaining client relationships within the healthcare market. - Proven experience identifying, pursuing, and securing new work through relationship development, strategic positioning, proposals, presentations, and pursuit leadership. - Demonstrated experience leading complex multidisciplinary healthcare projects and teams. - Strong understanding of healthcare facility planning, building systems, project delivery, construction, and operational requirements. - Working knowledge of healthcare-related codes, standards, regulations, and authority requirements relevant to the candidate’s engineering discipline. - Experience providing executive or senior-level oversight of project scope, schedule, budget, staffing, quality, risk, and financial performance. - Demonstrated ability to lead, mentor, and develop engineering, project management, and technical staff. - Established professional network within the healthcare, engineering, architecture, construction, or facilities community. - Excellent verbal, written, presentation, negotiation, and relationship-building skills. - Ability to communicate effectively with healthcare executives, facility leaders, architects, contractors, technical professionals, and internal leadership. - Ability to travel as needed to support clients, project teams, industry activities, and business-development efforts. - Proven commitment to workplace safety, quality, ethical conduct, and professional responsibility. ## Skills ### Required - Mechanical Engineering - Electrical Engineering - Architectural Engineering - Project Management - Leadership - Client Relationship Management - Business Development - Technical Leadership - Healthcare Facility Planning - Building Systems - Construction - Operational Requirements - Codes and Standards - Regulatory Requirements ### Nice to have - Master’s Degree in Engineering, Business Administration, Healthcare Administration - LEED AP - WELL AP - PMP - DBIA - Certified Healthcare Constructor - Certified Healthcare Facility Manager --- Source: [Apply at emit.fa.ca3.oraclecloud.com](https://emit.fa.ca3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/CandidateExperience/en/sites/CX_2001/job/96450?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)