Assistant Vice President, Electrical Engineering Project Manager

This Opportunity

WSP is currently initiating a search for an Assistant Vice President, Electrical Project Manager for our Roseville, CA office to join our Property & Buildings team. This is an exciting opportunity for a licensed Electrical Engineer with significant healthcare project experience who is seeking a leadership role focused on project delivery, client management, business development, and team leadership within a growing healthcare practice.

The successful candidate will serve as a trusted advisor to healthcare clients and lead the successful delivery of complex healthcare projects from pursuit and planning through design, construction, occupancy, and closeout. This role requires a professional who can effectively balance project management, client relationship management, financial performance, team leadership, and technical oversight while ensuring projects are delivered on schedule, within budget, and aligned with client expectations.

This position will support major healthcare clients across Northern California and play a key role in growing WSP's healthcare practice. Project types include hospitals, medical office buildings, outpatient facilities, surgery centers, behavioral health facilities, laboratories, medical campuses, and other critical healthcare environments.

At WSP, we are driven by inspiring the right people to be part of our future-focused business objectives. Our devotion to teamwork has allowed us to build communities and improve the spaces where people live, work, heal, and thrive.

Be involved in projects with our Property & Buildings Team and be part of a growing organization that meets our clients' objectives and solves their challenges.

Your Impact

• Serve as Project Manager for complex healthcare facility projects, overseeing all phases of project execution from planning and design through construction and closeout.
• Act as the primary point of contact for clients, ensuring exceptional service, communication, and project delivery.
• Lead multidisciplinary project teams including electrical, mechanical, plumbing, fire protection, structural, architectural, and specialty consultants.
• Manage project scope, schedules, budgets, staffing plans, contract compliance, risk management, and overall project financial performance.
• Develop and maintain strong relationships with healthcare systems, hospital administrators, architects, contractors, and key industry stakeholders.
• Drive project planning efforts, establish project execution strategies, and monitor project performance to ensure successful outcomes.
• Facilitate client meetings, project team coordination meetings, design reviews, and executive-level presentations.
• Support business development efforts through client engagement, proposal development, fee negotiations, interviews, and strategic pursuit planning.
• Identify opportunities for repeat business and expanded services within existing healthcare accounts.
• Mentor project managers, engineers, and design staff while promoting collaboration, accountability, and professional development.
• Provide executive-level oversight of project quality, technical coordination, and risk management processes.
• Collaborate with regional and national healthcare leadership teams to support strategic growth initiatives.
• Support recruiting, workforce planning, succession planning, and team development within the California Property & Buildings practice.
• Provide technical leadership and oversight for healthcare electrical systems including power distribution, emergency power systems, lighting, fire alarm, and low-voltage infrastructure.
• Exercise responsible and ethical decision-making regarding company funds, resources, and conduct while adhering to WSP's Code of Conduct and related policies.

Who You Are

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Architectural Engineering, Construction Management, or related field.
• Professional Engineer (PE) license required.
• 10+ years of experience delivering complex healthcare or large-scale building projects.
• Demonstrated success managing multidisciplinary project teams through all project phases.
• Strong experience managing project schedules, budgets, contracts, staffing plans, and financial performance.
• Proven ability to build and maintain long-term client relationships.
• Experience serving as Project Manager, Client Manager, or Program Manager on healthcare facility projects.
• Strong understanding of project delivery methodologies, risk management, quality management, and construction administration processes.
• Knowledge of California building codes, NEC, NFPA, and HCAI/OSHPD healthcare requirements.
• Understanding of healthcare electrical systems sufficient to provide technical oversight and leadership.
• Excellent communication, presentation, negotiation, leadership, and organizational skills.
• Proven ability to lead teams and deliver projects safely, efficiently, profitably, and with high client satisfaction.
• Existing healthcare client relationships and industry network within Northern California preferred.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's Degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Business Administration, or related field.
• 5+ years of project or program management experience leading large healthcare projects.
• PMP certification preferred.
• LEED AP, WELL AP, or other sustainability-related credentials.
• Experience managing acute care hospitals, laboratories, surgery centers, behavioral health facilities, and medical campuses.
• Experience supporting business development, strategic growth initiatives, and client account management.
• Experience working with HCAI/OSHPD healthcare projects.
• Prior people management or operational leadership experience.
• 40-Hour OSHA Health & Safety Training (HAZWOPER) preferred.
• First Aid and CPR certification preferred.

WSP Benefits:  

WSP provides a comprehensive suite of benefits focused on a 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: 

Expected Salary (all locations): $134,700 - $200,100 

WSP USA is providing the compensation range that the company in good faith believes it might pay and offer for this position, based on the successful applicant’s education, experience, knowledge, skills, abilities in addition to internal equity and specific geographic location. WSP USA reserves the right to ultimately pay more or less than the posted range and offer additional benefits and other compensation, depending on circumstances not related to an applicant’s sex or other status protected by local, state, and/or federal law.