Description
Join our Transportation and Infrastructure team as a Senior Project Manager, leading major rail and collective transport projects that directly impact sustainable mobility, safety, and community quality of life.
Your responsibilities will include:
- Managing project aspects such as scope, costs, timelines, resources, risks, quality, and communication
- Ensuring technical solutions and deliverables meet standards, contractual requirements, and quality standards
- Monitoring and reporting project performance, including finances, scope, commercial aspects, quality, reputation, client satisfaction, health, and safety
- Acting as primary point of contact for clients and internal and external stakeholders
- Identifying, monitoring, and managing risks, and escalating them as needed
- Approving decisions related to costs, timelines, deliverables, resources, and other critical project elements
- Regularly communicating project updates and informing the project director of progress and issues
- Ensuring rigorous and timely billing and follow-up of receivables
- Defining, documenting, and managing internal and external changes
- Ensuring projects are delivered safely and in compliance with WSP's health, safety, and well-being policies
- Delivering project results in accordance with internal IRCs
- Ensuring all deliverables are provided to the client on time and accepted according to the contract
- Closing projects completely, including financial and administrative closure in company systems
- Implementing market development actions for the rail and collective transport business unit
- Supervising the preparation of service proposals related to your area of activity
The skills that set you apart:
- University degree in engineering, urban planning, land use planning, or administration
- PMP certification or project management training is an asset
- Professional engineer (OIQ) or relevant professional designation
- Minimum 15 years of experience in engineering project management, including at least 8-10 years in the rail sector
- Demonstrated experience in multidisciplinary project management
- Experience in preparing professional service proposals, including schedules, budgets, and commercial, legal, technical, and financial revisions
- Business development experience, client account management, and client relationship strategy
- Knowledge of engineering project planning processes
- Ability to manage budgets, timelines, risks, and technical coordination
- Mastery of project management tools (MS Project, etc.)
- Fluency in English and French (written and spoken)
- Leadership, organisational sense, rigour, and solution-oriented approach
- Asset: experience in a large public project context, design-construction, or P3
Why choose WSP?
- Canadian pride - we're one of Canada's top 100 employers for 2026
- A global community of talented individuals - your next idea, mentor, or opportunity is always within reach
- Unlimited possibilities - locally or internationally, we help you shape your role according to your ambitions
- Flexibility and real balance - we recognise the importance of balance and encourage you to prioritise yours