# Lead Project Manager - Defence

**Company**: WSP
**Location**: Toronto, ON
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $112,100 - $162,800
**Category**: Defence & Intelligence
**Industry**: Consulting

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## Description

As a Senior Project Manager, Defence Infrastructure, you will lead the delivery of some of Canada's most complex and strategically important infrastructure projects.

Working with federal and defence-sector clients, you will oversee multidisciplinary teams delivering secure, mission-critical facilities that support military operations, training, logistics, public safety, and national resilience.

This is an exceptional opportunity to shape high-profile projects across land, air, and naval environments while helping grow WSP's national Defence and Federal Buildings practice.

**Your Impact**

- Lead the successful delivery of defence and federal infrastructure projects from planning and procurement through design, construction, commissioning, and project closeout.

- Establish and oversee project governance frameworks, including execution plans, schedules, budgets, resourcing strategies, and risk management programs.

- Direct multidisciplinary teams across architecture, structural, civil, mechanical, electrical, security, and specialty consulting disciplines to achieve project objectives.

- Build trusted relationships with clients, Defence Construction Canada (DCC), contractors, regulatory authorities, and project stakeholders.

- Manage project scope, schedule, cost, quality, risk, and performance while implementing proactive mitigation strategies.

- Support business development, client account management, and strategic pursuits within the defence and federal sectors.

- Mentor project managers, project controls professionals, engineers, and emerging leaders to strengthen project delivery excellence across the practice.

- Champion WSP's commitment to health and safety, quality, environmental stewardship, ethical business practices, and inclusive team culture.

**The Skills That Set You Apart**

- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Architecture, Construction Management, or a related discipline.

- Professional designation such as P.Eng., PMP, OAA, RAIC, or equivalent professional credential is considered an asset.

- Minimum 12 years of progressive experience delivering complex capital projects.

- Demonstrated experience delivering defence, federal, or similarly regulated infrastructure projects, including projects with Defence Construction Canada (DCC) or comparable public-sector organizations.

- Proven success managing projects valued at $25M or greater, including alternative delivery models such as Design-Build, Construction Management, Alliance, or P3.

- Strong understanding of federal procurement processes, governance frameworks, contract administration, security requirements, and regulatory compliance.

- Exceptional leadership, stakeholder management, negotiation, communication, and commercial management capabilities.

- Ability to obtain and maintain the required federal security clearance; bilingualism (English/French) is considered an asset.

**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
- P.Eng.
- PMP
- OAA
- RAIC
- Defence Construction Canada
- Project Management

### Nice to have
- French
- Federal security clearance

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