Mechanical Engineering Executive Lead

WSP USA is seeking a seasoned Mechanical Engineering Executive to lead our Los Angeles office.

This role offers a unique opportunity to join a growing organization and contribute to delivering high-quality mechanical engineering projects that meet or exceed industry standards. As a key member of our Property & Buildings Team, you will be responsible for providing regional and multi-sector leadership to ensure the successful delivery of mechanical engineering subject matter, technical deliverables, building, and infrastructure projects and programs.

Your Impact:

• Leadership and Strategy: Provide proactive and strategic process and people leadership for the design, implementation, and administration of engineering discipline's project and program involvement within the organization.
• Project Execution: Lead the most complex and largest scale mechanical engineering projects within the engineering discipline, ensuring contributors know what they are required to do and by when, preparing and overseeing relevant project budgets, monitoring internal and external events, tracking hours and expenses, ensuring satisfactory performance and profitability, and supervising subcontractors, contract work, and employees.
• Technical Expertise: Provide expert technical assistance on various engineering, design, and construction issues relating to automatic temperature control systems and specifications, air distribution (supply, return, exhaust), hydronic systems (chilled water, heating water, etc.) and plumbing systems (domestic water, waste, vent, storm, etc.).
• Business Development: Responsible for the pursuit and development of business and the successful execution of work for current and potential building and infrastructure work within a geography specifically for the large projects within the area.
• Negotiations: Lead technical aspects of contract negotiation, presentations, and meetings.
• Growth Strategy: Drive the overall long-term strategy, growth, and pipeline development of Mechanical Engineering work for WSP in assigned area of responsibility, with a focus on infrastructure opportunities in all disciplines (planning, design, and strategic consulting and program/construction management).
• Project Performance:
• Accountable for the profitable performance of the individual projects and the successful completion of the projects within the specified area.
• Compliance: Drive compliance and accountability-at-all-levels with applicable Federal, State, and Local engineering/design/construction/environmental laws, codes, policies, and regulatory requirements.
• Culture and Vision: Oversee internal vision and mission for the engineering discipline, ensuring alignment with business operations strategy, and maintaining that certifications, accreditations, and client value ratings are continuously improved.
• Discipline Leadership: Lead engineering discipline meetings and continuing educational opportunities for area of responsibility, providing updates and recommendations to staff that ensure all appropriate measures are taken to foster innovation, development, and quality project delivery within the discipline.
• Representative: Serve as the engineering discipline's representative/liaison to a variety of external entities including Federal, State, and Local Agencies, Clients, Subcontractors, industry-related groups, and various government and community entities.
• Proposals and Project Management: Provide senior leadership for proposals and project work scopes, pricing, budget, and performance metrics for the engineering discipline.
• Data Analysis: Interpret and summarize data, including reports and documents for complex projects and initiatives that result in sound engineering and regulatory conclusions.
• Multidisciplinary Collaboration: Provide discipline leadership to multi-disciplinary project teams and contribute to providing high level strategic advice to clients.
• Staff Performance Guidance: Provide performance guidance and proactive leadership to assigned managers and staff.
• Client Relationships: Develop high-level business contacts and a client base for providing high level mechanical engineering services including identifying additional business development opportunities, and cross-selling of other WSP capabilities.
• Professional Development: Remain current in latest mechanical engineering techniques and practices.
• Collaboration: Collaborate with professionals from a variety of disciplines to provide future ready solutions for clients.
• Ethical Conduct: Exercise responsible and ethical decision-making regarding company funds, resources and conduct, and adhere to WSP's Code of Conduct and related policies and procedures.

• Bachelor's Degree in Mechanical Engineering, or closely related discipline.
• 15+ years of relevant post education experience in engineering, mechanical, and infrastructure design.
• 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 attention to detail 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 track record 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.

• Master's Degree in Engineering.
• LEED certification desired.
• 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 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: $149,000 - $300,410