# Senior Legal Counsel (12 month temporary contract)

**Company**: WSP
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: temporary
**Category**: Legal
**Industry**: Consulting

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## Description

We are seeking a Senior Legal Counsel to join our Canadian Legal team for a 12-month temporary assignment, supporting operations across Canada, with a focus on the Transportation & Infrastructure sector.

As a Senior Legal Counsel at WSP, 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

To be successful in this role, you will have:

- 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 judgment, 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

In terms of compensation, the salary range for this position is:

- 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

## Skills

### Required
- Canadian provincial bar membership
- 5+ years of legal experience
- commercial agreement drafting and negotiation
- transportation and infrastructure projects
- traditional and alternative delivery models
- Microsoft 365 proficiency

### Nice to have
- French

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