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WSP USA SVP, Renewables Engineering Market Leader in Denver, Colorado

This Opportunity

WSP is currently initiating a search for a Renewables Engineer Market Leader . Be a key leader within WSP USA’s Energy team ranked #9 on ENR’s 2024 engineering list for the Power sector (and #5 overall), strategically focused on meeting our client’s objectives and solving their challenges within the Energy Transition.

WSP USA has an exciting opportunity to play a key leadership role in WSP's Energy engineering team, expanding our impact across the US market, preferably based out of our Boulder, CO, office. This is an operational role responsible for team engagement, business growth, and performance with market sector focus on decarbonization opportunities primarily related to deployment of utility-scale solar energy, wind energy, and battery energy storage systems (BESS), but also extending to other client-specific energy needs associated with the Energy Transition such as electrification, microgrids, and power delivery.

Your Impact

Clients

  • Bring an expanded view and integrated response to complex client challenges by leveraging our full suite of offerings across all end markets.

  • Utilize our extended reach of technical and subject matter experts (SMEs) across the US and globally to foster new and innovative client delivery.

  • Strategically grow and drive performance of our renewables engineering market share across the U.S. working with project owners, developers, and EPC clients.

  • Represent WSP as the “face of the company” in the Mountain West and across the US (when necessary) with clients, industry, and within WSP.

People & Culture

  • Serve as a sub-market leader within the Energy Sector located and work with designated Team Leads, other local/regional WSP leaders, and the National Energy Team to attract the best industry talent by fostering a work environment that is collaborative, values inclusion and diversity and invites broad, creative thinking – crafting a more attractive place to work, grow and thrive.

  • Emphasize employee training and development to create a unique work experience.

  • Inspire, motivate and promote the best of WSP to our clients and communities to ensure strong employee engagement and morale.

  • Support programs such as Safety, Sustainability and Ethics & Compliance

Operational Excellence

  • Collaborate with leadership to strategically drive the business, assess and suggest improvements for project performance, oversee overhead expenditures, and focus on Key Performance Indicators (KPIs): Sales, Funding, EBITDA, Staff Hiring and Retention, DSO, Utilization, Backlog, Inclusion & Diversity and Guiding Principles.

  • Develop local growth forecast and business development strategy in collaboration with Team Leads and Leadership.

  • Resolve conflicts and other internal/external issues that may arise in the office, amongst WSP’s client base, or on projects.

Expertise

  • The ideal candidate for this role brings a strong background in energy infrastructure ideally with expertise in renewables engineering/projects or the development thereof.

  • Leverage WSP’s broad technical experience to enhance current and new service offerings.

  • Partner with WSP Market Segment Leaders (e.g., Hydrogen, Carbon Capture, Electrification & DER (Distributed Energy Resources), Power Delivery, Environmental), participating in strategy formation and business development.

  • Foster the development of new and emerging innovations to remain the trusted thought leaders in our industry.

  • Advance the strategic direction of the region for sustained and continued growth consistent with the strategic plan.

  • Encourage, support and promote the technical and professional development of local WSP staff.

Who You Are

Required Qualifications

  • Minimum of 12+ years of experience with a college degree or equivalent experience in the engineering consulting industry with a strong focus/background in the renewables energy and infrastructure value chain.

  • Bachelor’s degree in business, engineering, or related discipline.

  • Experience in infrastructure planning, design, and delivery, including active involvement in rehabilitation, new design, and construction projects.

  • Highly effective interpersonal and communication skills when interacting with others, expressing ideas effectively and professionally to an engineering and non-engineering audience.

  • Demonstrated high-level of self-leadership with attention to detail, multi-tasking, and prioritization of responsibilities in a dynamic work environment.

  • Strongly established relevant client relationships and industry contacts in the national renewables market.

  • Sound decision-making, strategic and visionary thinking, and creative business development capabilities across a multi-disciplined practice.

  • Occasional travel may be required depending on clients and/or sector activities.

WSP Benefits

WSP provides a comprehensive suite of benefits focused on providing health and financial stability throughout the employee’s career. These benefits include coverage related to medical, dental, vision, disability, and life; retirement savings; paid sick leave; paid vacation (or other personal time); paid parental leave; and paid time off for purposes of bereavement, voting, and/or attendance at naturalization proceedings.

Compensation

Expected Salary (all locations): $180,000 - $250,000

WSP USA is providing the compensation range that the company in good faith believes it might pay and offer for this position, based on the successful applicant’s education, experience, knowledge, skills, abilities in addition to internal equity and specific geographic location. WSP USA reserves the right to ultimately pay more or less than the posted range and offer additional benefits and other compensation, depending on circumstances not related to an applicant’s sex or other status protected by local, state, and/or federal law.

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About WSP

WSP USA is the U.S. operating company of WSP, one of the world's leading engineering and professional services firms. Dedicated to serving local communities, we are engineers, planners, technical experts, strategic advisors and construction management professionals. WSP USA designs lasting solutions in the buildings, transportation, energy, water and environment markets. With more than 15,000 employees in over 300 offices across the U.S., we partner with our clients to help communities prosper.

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WSP provides a flexible and agile workplace model while meeting client needs. Employees are also afforded a comprehensive suite of benefits including medical, dental, vision, disability, life, and retirement savings focused on providing health and financial stability throughout the employee’s career.

At WSP, we want to give our employees the challenges they seek to grow their careers and knowledge base. Your daily contributions to your team will be essential in meeting client objectives, goals and challenges. Are you ready to get started?

WSP USA (and all of its U.S. companies) is an Equal Opportunity Employer Race/Age/Color/Religion/Sex/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity/National Origin/Disability or Protected Veteran Status.

The selected candidate must be authorized to work in the United States.

NOTICE TO THIRD PARTY AGENCIES:

WSP does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruiters, employment agencies, or other staffing services. Unsolicited resumes include any resume or hiring document sent to WSP in the absence of a signed Service Agreement where WSP has expressly requested recruitment/staffing services specific to the position at hand. Any unsolicited resumes, including those submitted to hiring managers or other business leaders, will become the property of WSP and WSP will have the right to hire that candidate without reservation – no fee or other compensation will be owed or paid to the recruiter, employment agency, or other staffing service.

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