Senior Program Director

This Opportunity

WSP is seeking a Senior Program Director for our Power & Energy Program Management Office in Tulsa, OK. The following locations will also be considered:
Oklahoma City, OK;
Dallas, TX;
Austin, TX;
Houston, TX;
Corpus Christi, TX;
Bentonville, AR;
Shreveport, LA . The successful candidate is preferred to be located within, or have ready access to, the south-central United States and must be able to travel regularly to WSP, client, and project locations across a multi-state utility service territory. This position provides leadership, definition, and oversight for the consistent delivery of large-scale, highly complex programs within the Extra High Voltage (EHV) Transmission and Distribution sector, with a strong emphasis on embedded client support, regional coordination, and reliable execution across a geographically dispersed portfolio.

• Lead the most complex and largest scale projects within the organization, ensuring contributors know what they are required to do and by when, preparing and overseeing relevant project budgets, forecasts, margins and KPIs, monitoring external events and risk contingencies, tracking hours and expenses, ensuring QA/QC and satisfactory performance, and managing the contractual obligations to deliver the project or assigned portfolio of assigned project(s) as defined in the contract.

• Foster effective and proactive strategies to engage client and project stakeholders at all levels, maintain trusted relationships, and provide clear, timely reporting on project and portfolio progress.

• Participate in the technical aspects of contract negotiation, presentations, and meetings.

• Serve as a senior day-to-day client interface, working within established client governance, project controls, safety, quality, reporting, and decision-making processes to support successful delivery of the assigned program or portfolio.

• Coordinate closely with client representatives, internal delivery teams, functional leads, subcontractors, and external stakeholders to align priorities, clarify responsibilities, resolve issues, and support consistent execution across the assigned regional footprint.

• Accountable for the profitable performance and successful completion of all individual projects within the specified area or portfolio.

• Provide leadership to multidisciplinary project teams distributed across multiple offices and project locations, and deliver high-level strategic advice aligned with client priorities, operating practices, and capital program objectives.

• Provide performance guidance and proactive leadership to assigned managers and staff, promoting consistent delivery practices and an integrated team approach across WSP and client-facing resources.

• Develop, maintain, and update Project Initiation and governance documentation, including Risk Registers (/RMP), Project Management Plans (PMP), Project Quality Plans (QP), Project Safety Plans (PSP), and Communications Plans, in accordance with WSP and client requirements.

• Lead project management discipline meetings, addressing root cause issues and potential solutions, leveraging opportunities for improvement in area of responsibility, and providing updates and recommendations to staff that ensure all appropriate measures are taken to foster innovation, development, and quality project delivery.

• Lead the development of project recovery plans, including team input for developing strategy for correcting project budget and overrun issues with the client.

• Lead and support integrated project controls and portfolio governance activities, including schedule and cost performance tracking, forecast updates, variance analysis, change control, risk and issue management, action tracking, decision documentation, escalation,…