Description
WSP is seeking a Senior Technical Manager, Electrical Engineering to join their Energy team. This leadership role will provide technical oversight, project direction, and engineering excellence across complex power generation, renewable energy, transmission, distribution, substation, and industrial infrastructure projects.
The successful candidate will serve as a technical authority, mentor engineering staff, support strategic growth initiatives, and ensure the delivery of high-quality engineering services to clients.
Key Responsibilities:
- Provide technical oversight and leadership for multi-site/phase due diligence, investigation, remediation, impact assessment, permitting, improvement, design, development, and construction of utility, industrial, and commercial scale projects.
- Coordinate, review, and approve electrical infrastructure design plans for mid-level and complex projects.
- Apply high-level electrical engineering techniques and processes to identify improvements for various infrastructure project phases.
- Perform professional electrical engineering work and conduct more complex/comprehensive investigations and inspections of proposed and existing site conditions.
- Develop construction plans, specifications, and cost estimates.
- Oversee the development and implementation of future-ready technologies.
- Lead larger-scale electrical engineering projects.
- Assist with engineering review of permit applications, engineering design plans and specifications, standby plans and engineering contracts.
- Meet with various public or private entities or individuals to discuss issues relating to electrical/engineering/construction challenges and programs.
- Ensure technical reports and presentations explain research, findings, and recommendations.
- Maintain a high level of quality and responsiveness to client requirements.
- Develop a client base for providing high-level electrical engineering services.
- Mentor staff to support their growth and professional development.
- Remain current in the latest electrical engineering techniques and practices.
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering.
- 10+ years of relevant post-education experience as an electrical engineer.
- Engineer license required (multi-state preferred).
- Highly proficient with electrical engineering principles, practices, process, design/build, and the application to permitting and project work-related issues.
- Highly proficient with infrastructure design.
- Experience with infrastructure planning, design, and program/construction management.
- Strong knowledge of relevant engineering and electrical construction laws, codes, regulations, compliance practices, and record-keeping requirements.
- Highly proficient with making technical computations and calculations involving the application of engineering principles.
- Experience with planning and conducting inspections and investigations on various aspects of the construction and design of facilities or structures.
- Highly effective interpersonal and communication skills.
- Strong self-leadership and interpersonal communication skills.
- Works independently to provide guidance and leadership to mid-level to senior-level team or project members.
- Proficiency with technical writing, office automation, discipline-specific design software, technology, math principles, predictive models, spreadsheets, and tools.
- Experienced with providing critical review for documents and preparing technical deliverables and plans with a high degree of complexity.
- Well-developed critical thinking and problem-solving skills.
- Demonstrated effectiveness at coordinating and assertively directing subcontractors and others.
- Proven track record of upholding workplace safety and ability to abide by WSP’s health, safety, and drug/alcohol and harassment policies.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Master’s Degree in Engineering.
- 40-Hour OSHA Health & Safety Training (HAZWOPER) (29 CFR 1910.120) preferred.
- Basic First Aid and Adult CPR training desired.
Benefits:
- Medical, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance
- Retirement savings
- Paid sick leave
- Paid vacation
- Paid parental leave
- Paid time off for purposes of bereavement, voting, and/or attendance at naturalization proceedings
Compensation:
- Expected Salary (all locations): $134,700 – $229,100