Manager, Risk Management

The Opportunity :

By joining our growing Corporate Commercial and Risk team, you will bring leadership and expertise to our overall risk management function while supporting related corporate stakeholders, services to business lines and project teams.

A day in the life :

The role will primarily allow you to develop and grow within a newly established team where you will be responsible to :

• Review risk management and / or related enterprise business practices
• Review pursuit and projects management methodologies
• Capture goals, needs and requirements
• Analyse and map risk management (or other) processes and workflows
• Understand interfaces with other functional methodologies
• Developing procedures and guidelines
• Develop traditional and e-training material
• Facilitate workshops and live sessions
• Serve as a subject matter expert to commercial & risk management
• Support networking and sharing initiatives

What you'll bring to WSP :

You will be contributing over 5 years of experience in the construction and engineering field (or any related field), and would also present the following :

• University diploma in Engineering or other process and business improvement related field
• Multidisciplinary functional or project experience (quality, process, cost control, scheduling, contract management, procurement, HS, environment, business continuity or other)
• Understanding of enterprise and project risk management processes
• Strong ability to capture and analyse information
• Experience in mapping processes and developing procedures
• Comfortable communicating with functional groups as well as project teams
• Facility in speaking in front of smaller and larger groups
• Be motivated, structured, autonomous and proactive
• Bilingual (French & English) is preferred

WSP is one of the world's leading professional services firms. Our purpose is to future proof our cities and environments.

We have over 65,000 team members across the globe. In Canada, our 12,000+ people are involved in everything from environmental remediation to urban planning, from engineering iconic buildings to designing sustainable transportation networks, from finding new ways to extract essential resources to developing renewable power sources for the future.

At WSP :

• We value our people and our reputation
• We are locally dedicated with international scale
• We are future focused and challenge the status quo
• We foster collaboration in everything we do
• We have an empowering culture and hold ourselves accountable

Please Note :

Health and Safety is a core paramount value of WSP. Given the importance of keeping one another safe it is expected that you comply with our Health, Safety & Environment (HSE) policy at all times as well as client HSE policies when working at client locations.

Offers of employment for safety-sensitive positions involving fieldwork are contingent upon candidates being able to perform key physical tasks of the job as described in the job posting and interview.

This may include the ability to work in a variety of environmental conditions, such as remote or isolated areas, working alone, and in inclement weather (within safe and reasonable limits).

WSP welcomes and encourages applications from people with disabilities. Accommodations are available on request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process.

WSP is committed to the principles of employment equity. Only the candidates selected will be contacted.

WSP does not accept unsolicited resumes from agencies. For more information please READ THE FULL POLICY.