Vice President, Land Develpment and Municipal Engineering - Western Canada

Job Description

Build the Future with Us

At WSP, our Land Development & Municipal Engineering (LDME) practice is driven by a bold vision: to shape resilient, inclusive, and future‑ready communities through innovative infrastructure solutions.

We are seeking a Vice President, Land Development & Municipal Engineering – Western Canada to lead a high‑impact, multi‑disciplinary business within our Transportation & Infrastructure sector. The LDME Western Canada business spans Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta, British Columbia, and the Territories, comprising 350+ professionals delivering essential infrastructure that supports community growth and sustainability.

Reporting to the Senior Vice President, LDME, this executive role is accountable for strategic growth, operational excellence, financial performance, and people leadership — advancing WSP’s long‑term vision while building a culture of collaboration, accountability, and innovation.

Your Impact

• Set Direction: Define and communicate a clear regional vision, strategy, operating plan, budgets, and performance targets aligned with WSP’s strategic priorities.
• Drive Performance: Lead operational excellence across disciplines, optimizing project margins, workforce utilization, cash generation, and DSO.
• Enable Growth: Champion business development across Western Canada, expanding market presence and ensuring investments deliver strong strategic and financial returns.
• Strengthen Relationships: Build trusted partnerships with key municipal, provincial, federal, and private‑sector clients, industry partners, and stakeholders.
• Deliver Excellence: Guide leaders in achieving consistent project delivery excellence through disciplined project reviews and risk management.
• Govern with Confidence: Partner with finance leadership to forecast performance, ensure accurate revenue recognition, and deliver reliable financial results.
• Develop Leaders: Lead, coach, and inspire senior leaders and teams, fostering a high‑performance culture with strong engagement and low voluntary turnover.
• Champion Values: Promote WSP’s safety, ethics, and compliance programs as foundational to how work gets done.
• Maintain Boots‑on‑the‑Ground Leadership: Invest significant time in client‑facing engagement across the region to strengthen relationships, maintain deep awareness of key accounts, and ensure WSP remains close to client priorities and opportunities.

The Skills That Set You Apart

• Executive Leadership: Bachelor’s degree in business, engineering, or a related technical discipline.
• Proven Experience: Minimum 15 years of senior leadership experience in engineering, infrastructure, or a related professional services environment.
• Strategic Mindset: Demonstrated ability to identify growth opportunities, assess market trends, and make balanced, informed decisions.
• Business Development Strength: Strong track record growing business with public‑ and private‑sector clients across complex stakeholder environments.
• People Leadership: Advanced capability leading large, matrixed organizations, influencing indirectly, and aligning teams around shared outcomes.
• Commercial Acumen: Experience defining contracting strategies, managing risk, and negotiating commercial terms to protect value.
• Credibility & Integrity: Highly respected leader with strong communication skills and uncompromising professional integrity.
• Mobility: Willingness to travel approximately 20% across Western Canada, with additional national and occasional international travel.

Compensation

Starting salary is $195,980.

The final salary awarded for this role may vary from the above range based on several factors including, but not limited to, relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, seniority, geographic location, performance, and business or organizational needs. The wage range provided in this job posting may be subject to change for business purposes.

Ready to Shape the Future?

If you’re a visionary leader driven to make a lasting impact on communities across Western Canada, we invite you to bring your ambition and expertise to WSP.

Health and Safety

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. Full details here. Some safety-sensitive positions involve fieldwork and may include work in a variety of environmental conditions, such as remote or isolated areas, working alone, and in inclement weather (within safe and reasonable limits).

Equity and Inclusion

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. Full details here.

Position Status

Position will remain open until June 14, 2026, and only candidates selected for an interview will be contacted.

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