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.