# Lead Project Manager, Mission Critical Buildings

**Company**: WSP
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $122,900 - $162,800
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Consulting

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## Description

We are seeking a Lead Project Manager to oversee the delivery of complex mission critical and data centre projects. As a Lead Project Manager / Design Manager, you will be the client's primary point of contact, establishing effective governance, and guiding multidisciplinary teams from initiation through closeout.

**Your Impact**

- Lead the planning, design management, execution, monitoring, commissioning, turnover, and closeout of major mission critical and data centre projects and programs.

- Act as the client's primary interface and trusted advisor, building strong relationships and maintaining clear, timely communication across delivery stages.

- Direct multidisciplinary teams, subconsultants, stakeholders, and concurrent workstreams to achieve integrated, coordinated project outcomes.

- Oversee scope, schedule, cost, quality, risk, change, and project controls, with particular attention to operational continuity, reliability, and critical milestones.

- Lead commercial and contract management, including obligations, fees, changes, risks, forecasting, and performance.

- Drive proposals and work-winning activities, including bid strategy, delivery approach, resourcing, fees, risk positioning, and written submissions.

- Establish governance, enable executive decisions, and lead issue resolution and escalation across design, procurement, permitting, construction administration, commissioning, and turnover.

- Identify priorities, take ownership, and implement practical improvements that strengthen delivery certainty, collaboration, and client value.

**The Skills That Set You Apart**

- A degree in engineering, architecture, construction management, or a related discipline; professional registration or project management certification is an asset.

- 10+ years of experience delivering major, complex, multidisciplinary projects and programs, including mission critical or data centre environments.

- Demonstrated experience leading design coordination and project delivery through procurement, construction administration, commissioning, and turnover.

- Proven proposal and work-winning experience, producing clear, compelling, and commercially sound submissions.

- Strong commercial and contract management capability, including fee, change, risk, forecasting, and performance management.

- Solid understanding of project controls interfaces across schedule, cost, risk, change, reporting, and decision governance.

- Effective stakeholder leadership and communication, with the judgement to resolve issues, manage escalation, and align diverse technical and commercial interests.

- Ability to obtain federal security clearances required for assigned projects.

**Why Choose WSP?**

- Proudly Canadian - we are a Top 100 Employer in Canada for 2026.

- A global community of brilliant minds - your next idea, mentor, or opportunity is always within reach.

- Limitless opportunities start here. Whether it's across the country or around the globe, we help you tailor your role to match your ambition - because your growth drives ours.

- Flexible work, real balance - we recognize the importance of balance in our lives and encourage you to prioritize the balance in yours.

**Compensation:**

- AB, BC, NT, NU, SK & YT: $122,900 - $162,800

- MB & ON: $112,100 - $154,400

- NB, NL, NS, PE & QC: $111,000 - $147,400

## Skills

### Required
- engineering
- architecture
- construction management
- project management
- design coordination
- procurement
- construction administration
- commissioning
- turnover
- commercial management
- contract management
- proposal writing
- bid strategy
- risk management
- change management
- forecasting
- performance management

### Nice to have
- federal security clearances

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