Assistant Vice President, Mechanical Engineer

This Opportunity

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

Your Impact

• 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).
• 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. 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.

Who You Are

Required Qualifications

• 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.
• Proficient with mechanical engineering principles, practices, process, design/build, and the application to permitting and project work-related issues.
• Experience with mechanical planning, design, and construction management; including active involvement in a variety of renovation, new design, and construction projects.
• Well-defined specific knowledge of relevant engineering and mechanical construction laws, codes, regulations, compliance practices, and record-keeping requirements.
• Well-developed ability to make technical computations and calculations involving the application of mechanical engineering principles, understanding plans and specifications, and making factual comparisons to the appropriate regulations.
• Demonstrated effectiveness at coordinating and assertively directing others to consistently complete tasks safely and efficiently.
• Proven track record of upholding workplace safety and ability to abide by WSP’s health, safety and drug/alcohol and harassment policies.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s Degree in Engineering.
• LEED AP Certification
• Previous Healthcare and/or Laboratory design experience.
• At least 5+ years minimum of Project Management experience.
• 40-Hour OSHA Health & Safety Training (HAZWOPER) (29 CFR 1910.120) preferred.
• Basic First Aid and Adult CPR training desired.

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