Assistant Vice President, Mechanical Engineering - Buildings

This Opportunity

WSP is seeking an Assistant
Vice President, Mechanical Engineer to join our dynamic Property & Buildings team based out of our Sacramento office.

Provide local and regional support leadership to our local team, to ensure mechanical engineering subject matter, technical deliverables, infrastructure projects and programs are delivered with a level of quality that meets or exceeds acceptable industry standards for design, safety, and functionality. Responsible for SME innovation and administration, ensuring corporate compliance with all Local, State, and Federal engineering, construction, and safety regulations, and providing strategic and consistent direction to address current and future challenges in a large-scale and multi-faceted business organization.

• Provide proactive and strategic process and people leadership for the design, implementation, and administration of Mechanical engineering discipline’s project and program involvement within the organization for Sacramento area projects.
• Lead complex and large scale mechanical engineering projects, 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.
• Assist the current team for the pursuit and development of business and the successful execution of work for current and potential project work within the area.
• Assist with technical aspects of contract negotiation, presentations, and meetings.
• Assist the overall long-term strategy, growth, and pipeline development of MEP Engineering work for WSP in the Sacramento area, with a focus on technical project opportunities in all disciplines (planning, design, and strategic consulting and program/construction management).
• Coordinate, review and approve mechanical design plans, ensuring data integrity and work is compliant with all applicable codes, ordinances, and regulations.
• Apply high-level mechanical engineering techniques and processes to identify improvements for various project phases including concept development, preliminary design, final design, procurement, construction, and operation.
• Plan and incorporate future-ready techniques, concept development, operating strategies, and various design requirements that account for the safety and functionality of end-users, systems, and infrastructure.
• Involved from project inception to completion in the management of design and construction of mechanical systems.
• Oversee and monitor cross-functional teams of engineers to execute project work on mid-level and/or multiple concurrent projects, including budgets, tracking hours and expenses, task completion, technical calculations, construction, compliance documentation, and regulatory and technical analysis memos.
• Prepare data and visualizations such as tables, charts, reports, sketches, calculations, cross-sections, and other illustrations for the interpretation or presentation of more complex data, findings, or analyses.
• Prepare comprehensive technical reports and presentations that explain research, findings, concepts, and recommendations to address design, and/or construction issues or opportunities.
• Manage client relationship and provide key technical input on pursuit efforts.
• Develops relationships with key internal and external stakeholders.
• 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 Architectural Engineering or related degree.
• 10+ years of relevant post education experience in engineering discipline and prior mechanical design experience.
• Professional Engineering license required.
• Extensive knowledge of mechanical design, particularly in the healthcare industry. Experience in multiple market sectors, including lab design and higher education type of projects is preferred.
• Known in the local community with an extensive network.
• Proficie…