Renewables Engineering Market Leader

This Opportunity

POWER Engineers Member of WSP is currently initiating a search for a Renewables Engineering Market Leader.

WSP USA has an exciting opportunity to play a key leadership role in WSP's Power & Energy engineering team, fully realizing the value of the combined POWER Engineers and WSP team while continuing to expanding our impact across the US market. 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.

Locations: Billings, MT, United States, Boise, ID, United States, Houston, TX, United States (Any Office) 

Key objectives for this role will include advancing WSP executive leadership goals to support growth and achieve a #1 ENR Power Ranking by 2027. These initiatives will include:

• Actively engage employee teams to drive successful integration of the Renewables business.
• Create and deploy a plan to drive greater value from key customers including potential for growth in portfolio-level Owner’s Engineers scopes or other repeatable/programmatic work.
• Ideate, define, and deliver plans to support key tactical activities to support growth.
• Along with Business Development teams and the Global Client Program (GCP) goals, support a strong focus on key customers and opportunities that create the greatest value.
• Set and achieve clear recruitment goals to support P&E 2027 strategic growth objectives. 
• Develop and advance plans to onboard and utilize teams from WSP’s Global Capability Center (GCC).
• Engage high potential employees to facilitate key strategic and tactical activities thereby ensuring incremental progress and creating opportunities for employees to stretch and gain more experience and exposure.
   

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” across the US (when necessary) with clients, industry, and within WSP.

People & Culture

• Serve as a leader within the Renewable Energy Sector working with Generation Leadership, Team Leads, other local/regional WSP leaders, and the broader P&E 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 broader WSP teams (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 US business 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 15+ 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.
• Travel will be required to support employee engagement, clients and/or sector activities.
• Proven track record of upholding workplace safety and ability to abide by WSP’s health, safety and drug/alcohol and harassment policies. 

POWER Engineers, Member of WSP, is an Equal Opportunity Employer, including women, minorities, veterans, and individuals with disabilities.