Managing Director, Energy Advisory

Opportunity

Lead WSP’s U.S. Advisory & Planning Business Line’s Energy Advisory Practice as the Managing Director, shaping transformative strategies that strengthen WSP’s position as a recognized leader in sustainable, resilient, and future‑ready energy solutions. In this highly visible leadership role, you will define the national vision for the practice, advance regional and multi‑sector priorities, expand market presence, and deliver innovative strategies that address the rapidly evolving energy landscape.

• Lead, inspire, and manage a diverse team of technical and strategic consultants and subject matter experts.
• Foster a collaborative, innovative, and inclusive culture centered on growth, technical excellence, strategic advisory services and accountability across business lines and global regions.
• Provide coaching, mentorship, and professional development opportunities to build future leaders.
• Serve as a trusted advisor to clients, demonstrating strong strategic acumen and a seller/doer mindset.
• Build, cultivate, and expand relationships with utilities, agencies, regulators, developers, and stakeholders across the power and energy ecosystem, and elevate these relationships to executives shaping strategy.
• Lead pursuit strategies, capture planning, and proposal development that reinforce WSP’s competitive positioning.
• Oversee delivery of complex advisory consultant engagements across electrification, renewable energy integration, grid modernization, major transmission projects, asset management, regulatory strategy, and decarbonization.
• Ensure project execution meets WSP’s quality standards, adheres to best practices, manages risks, and exceeds client expectations.
• Monitor project milestones, proactively address challenges, and champion continuous improvement.
• Develop and execute strategic plans that align with business line goals, regulatory trends, and market conditions.
• Identify emerging markets, service lines, and opportunities that expand the Energy Advisory practice.
• Foster innovation by advancing creative, data‑driven, and future‑ready solutions to complex client challenges.
• Manage the practice’s full P&L, including budgeting, forecasting, staffing, utilization, and financial reporting to ensure profitability and long‑term sustainability.
• Serve as WSP’s Energy Advisory representative to federal, state, and local agencies, utilities, clients, subcontractors, industry organizations, and community partners.

The Managing Director must bring deep technical expertise and broad industry fluency across the U.S. energy ecosystem, with the ability to translate complex market and regulatory dynamics into actionable, strategic solutions for clients. A strong command of the full energy value chain—and how energy systems intersect with major infrastructure sectors—is essential.

• Expertise in system planning, grid modernization strategies, and reliability/resilience analysis.
• Knowledge of interconnection processes, load forecasting, system modeling, and emerging grid technologies.
• Understanding of distributed energy resources (DERs), microgrids, advanced metering, and digital grid capabilities.

• Experience evaluating and delivering renewable energy solutions including solar, wind, battery storage, and hybrid resource portfolios.
• Familiarity with siting, permitting, interconnection, and wholesale market rules influencing renewable deployment.
• Ability to support decarbonization strategies, electrification programs, and net‑zero planning.

• Strong understanding of utility operations, asset lifecycle management, capital planning, and O&M optimization.
• Knowledge of state and federal regulatory frameworks, rate cases, cost recovery mechanisms, and performance‑based regulation.
• Experience guiding utilities and agencies through regulatory filings, compliance strategies, and risk mitigation.

• Ability to assess economic drivers behind power supply planning, capacity markets, and long‑term…