Senior Structural Engineer

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The Opportunity

Innovate and Lead - Step into a role where your structural engineering expertise shapes projects that matter. You'll guide multidisciplinary teams, influence design outcomes, and help deliver impactful, community-focused solutions across Ottawa and the Southwestern Ontario region. Your work will support everything from cutting-edge institutional builds to complex industrial sites - and you'll do it while building trusted relationships with clients and partners.

Your Impact

• Lead structural design delivery for small and medium-sized projects, ensuring technical excellence and seamless coordination across disciplines.
• Oversee structural scope on large, complex, multidisciplinary projects - managing resources, technical content, client communications, and project planning end-to-end.
• Apply advanced engineering judgment and perform structural analysis for steel, concrete, timber, and masonry systems, supported by leading-edge modelling tools.
• Conduct field reviews, inspections, and condition assessments to evaluate performance and support construction-phase needs.
• Prepare detailed design documentation - drawings, sections, specifications - and ensure exceptional quality across all deliverables.
• Mentor intermediate and junior staff, helping shape the next generation of structural engineering talent at WSP.
• Contribute to proposals, business development, and strategic pursuits, strengthening WSP's presence and relationships in the region.
• Collaborate nationally with teams across Canada to align technical approaches, share insights, and advance innovation.

The Skills That Set You Apart

• You're a Professional Engineer (PEO) with 10+ years of experience delivering structural engineering solutions across sectors such as institutional, industrial, healthcare, science, transportation, or commercial development.
• You bring deep technical expertise and the ability to lead structural delivery on multidisciplinary projects with confidence and clarity.
• You have strong knowledge of the Ontario Building Code (OBC) and National Building Code (NBC), and you apply these principles with a solutions-oriented mindset.
• You excel with structural modelling and analysis tools, applying advanced finite element methods to develop integrated, efficient design outcomes.
• You thrive in a client-facing environment - responsive, proactive, and committed to service excellence.
• You're energized by mentoring others, contributing to collaborative environments, and promoting curiosity, innovation, and inclusive design cultures.
  

Compensation
AB, BC, NT, NU, SK & YT: $103,500 - $137,400
MB & ON: $104,500 - $143,900
NB, NL, NS, PEI & QC: $103,500 - $137,400

Disclosure:
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.

Make Your Mark with WSP

If you're driven by purpose and impact, we'd love to hear from you. Apply now and take the next step in shaping a more resilient and sustainable future.
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.

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