Senior Technical & Sub-Regional Development Director

This Opportunity

WSP has an exciting opportunity for a highly skilled Senior Technical & Sub-Regional Development Director (STRDD) with deep experience and expertise in the Property & Buildings sector, based in San Francisco, CA.

WSP Property and Buildings business line has seen sustained growth across multiple sectors in the last two decades with a variety of complex challenges. WSP brings a wide range of services and talented indications to answer these challenges. Come join our team and grow your career using your skills and experience to prepare our Northern California operation for the next one hundred years of innovation. 

To respond to this growth, WSP’s Property and Building Business has an opportunity for a Senior Leader to join our team in California Region and beyond. This is a growth position for motivated candidates looking to expand their influence in the building industry. As a Senior Technical & Sub-Regional Development Director (STRDD), you will have the opportunity to develop and grow relationships in multiple market sectors, develop strategy, lead pursuits, and multidiscipline engineering teams. This position is an exciting opportunity for a candidate to join our California teams of experienced professionals in a leadership role and grow a team focused on Future Ready solutions.

Role & Responsibilities: 

The Senior Technical & Sub-Regional Development Director (STRDD) is a dual‑accountability executive role that combines sub-regional growth leadership with recognized senior technical authority. The role is responsible for driving top‑line growth, shaping the regional market strategy, and providing technical leadership and credibility across complex, high‑profile projects.

This position integrates client development, strategic growth, technical excellence, and selective project leadership to support sustainable, diversified growth aligned with the One WSP strategy and Client Care program.

Sub-Regional Growth & Market Development

• Drive sub-regional revenue growth across all P&B services, sectors, and Centers of Excellence.

• Develop and expand senior‑level client and partner relationships.

• Identify, shape, and position strategic pursuits from an active, high‑quality pipeline.

• Maintain strong P&B market visibility and brand presence within the sub-region.

Strategic Planning & Integration

• Lead development and execution of the sub-regional/local growth plans, aligned with Northern California regional P&B strategy.

• Integrate regional priorities into the broader One WSP and Client Care frameworks.

• Coordinate with Regional Development Director, Market Sector Leaders (locally), Sub-Region Local Business Leads (LBLs), and other regional and national Business Line Leaders.

Senior Technical Leadership:

• Function as a recognized technical authority within one or more core P&B disciplines or complex building typologies.

• Provide senior technical oversight on high‑risk, signature, or technically complex projects.

• Shape technical approaches during pursuits to differentiate solutions and manage delivery risk.

• Mentor senior staff and support development of technical depth and succession pipelines.

Client Care & Account Leadership

• Lead execution of the P&B Client Care strategy within the region.

• Serve as overall account leader for select priority clients

• Support additional accounts as a senior technical and growth advisor.

• Strengthen long‑term client trust through combined technical credibility and relationship leadership.

Pursuits, Projects & Delivery Engagement

• Provide senior leadership on major pursuits, proposals, and interviews.

• Serve selectively as Principal‑in‑Charge on complex or strategic projects, maintaining delivery credibility and quality oversight.

• Ensure technical standards, quality, and risk management expectations are upheld across priority work.

Leadership, Talent & Governance

• Serve as a core member of the Regional Leadership Team.

• Support identification, development, and recruitment of talent required to deliver growth and technical excellence.

• Deliver against nationally aligned growth and performance metrics, including pipeline health, organic growth, and client feedback.

Critical Success Factors:

• Excellent communication skills (both written and verbal) and ability to build long-term, meaningful relationships with clients. Ability to translate complicated technical information into sales messages.

• Ability to think strategically and creatively, and craft approaches to challenging problems.

• Technical or A/E/C sales background required.

• Collaboration and a partnering approach.

• Excellent leadership and development skills.

• Excellent mentoring skills.

• Ability to influence and gain buy-in from clients and our team.

• Demonstrated Change Management skills and experience.

• Demonstrated knowledge of operational management skills and experience.

Who You Are

Required Qualifications

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

• 15+ years of relevant post education experience in engineering, mechanical, and infrastructure design in the commercial sector

• Engineer license required (multi-state preferred).

• Advanced proficiency with mechanical engineering principles, practices, process, design/build, standard of care, and the application to permitting and project work-related issues.

• Extensive advanced proficiency with building and infrastructure design.

• Advanced knowledge of relevant mechanical engineering and construction laws, codes, regulations, compliance practices, and record-keeping requirements, and the business impact upon the organization.

• Demonstrated ability with establishing, implementing, and managing multiple larger-scale discipline-related programs, documents, projects, and practices for a line(s) of business.

• Excellent leadership and interpersonal communication skills with the ability to manage staff, and effectively, persuasively, and tactfully interact with employees at all levels of the organization.

• Strategic lateral thinking and strong analytical skills with diligence and prioritization of responsibilities in a pressure work environment.

• Ability to elicit cooperation from a wide variety of sources, including senior management, clients, and company-wide staff, including those with whom no formal hierarchical relationship exists. 

• Strong ability to quickly adapt to change and demonstrate flexibility to a variety of schedules and hours to meet business needs.

• Advanced knowledge and proficiency with office automation, load calculations, discipline-specific design software (i.e., AutoCAD, CAM), technology, math principles, predictive models, spreadsheets, and tools used in the corporate environment.

• Proven history of upholding workplace safety and ability to abide by WSP’s health, safety and drug/alcohol and harassment policies.

• Occasional travel may be required depending on project-specific requirements.

Preferred Qualifications 

• Sustainability certification.

• 20+ years of relevant post education experience in engineering discipline and prior mechanical design experience. 

• Strong experience in managing the review and approval of documents and discipline-specific deliverables, certifications, processes, and plans in a multi-project environment is highly desirable.

WSP Benefits:  

WSP provides a comprehensive suite of benefits focused on a 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 (Colorado only): $210,400- $352,990

WSP USA is providing the compensation range that the company in good faith believes it might pay and/or offer for this position within the state of Colorado, based on the successful applicant’s education, experience, knowledge, skills, and 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.