Business Manager Jobs at WSP with Visa Sponsorship
WSP hires Business Managers across its infrastructure, environment, and advisory practices, with roles typically sitting at the intersection of project delivery and client management. The company has a consistent track record of sponsoring work visas for this function, supporting candidates through H-1B, E-3, and employment-based Green Card pathways.
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WSP is currently initiating a search for a Senior Project Manager/Team Leader to join our Industrial Center of Excellence (ICoE) national practice. This role will support a growing portfolio of industrial and advanced manufacturing projects and offers the opportunity to work within a collaborative multidisciplinary environment focused on delivering high-quality solutions to our clients. This position will include advisory interaction with our clients’ leadership and executive teams, guiding them in decisions around their most important CAPEX initiatives.
Be involved in impactful projects with our Property & Buildings / Industrial team and be part of a global organization that is driven by innovation, technical excellence, and a commitment to client success.
Your Impact
As a Senior Project Manager, you will be responsible for leading complex industrial facilities projects from planning through execution, while managing client relationships, project teams, schedules, and budgets.
Responsibilities
- Primary driver on critical pursuits, responsible for developing and implementing winning strategies for expanding our business and facilitating team growth.
- Build and manage a book of business as Program Manager/Leader, mentoring other PMs into similar roles growing our large client base.
- Foresees and anticipates project issues, provides guidance to mitigate risks.
- Lead and manage industrial facilities projects, including advanced manufacturing, distribution, and process-driven facilities.
- Serve as the primary point of contact for clients, ensuring project objectives, scope, schedule, and budget are met.
- Coordinate multidisciplinary teams, including architectural, engineering, and specialty consultants.
- Oversee project planning, scheduling, and staffing.
- Financial performance management for both projects and teams.
- Support business development efforts, including proposal development and client presentations.
- Identify and mitigate project risks while ensuring quality, safety, and compliance with WSP standards.
- Mentor and support junior project managers and technical staff.
- Collaborate closely with regional and national ICoE leadership.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Architecture, Construction Management, or a related field.
- Minimum 12+ years of experience managing industrial or manufacturing facilities-related projects.
- Proven experience leading project management and multidisciplinary design teams including direct and indirect reporting team members and partners.
- Strong understanding of industrial facilities, manufacturing environments, and building systems.
- Experienced with alternate construction delivery models on greenfield and brownfield industrial projects including new construction, facility and system upgrades, and facility retrofits.
- Excellent client management, communication, and leadership skills.
- Skilled at managing project financials, schedules, and contracts.
- PMP certification or PE license preferred, but not required.
Preferred Experience
- Advanced manufacturing or industrial facilities project experience.
- Experience working with large, complex projects and multiple stakeholders.
- Familiarity with design-build or alternative delivery methods.
WSP Benefits:
WSP provides a comprehensive suite of benefits focused on 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: $157,500 - $233,600
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.
About WSP
WSP USA is the U.S. operating company of WSP, one of the world's leading engineering and professional services firms. Dedicated to serving local communities, we are engineers, planners, technical experts, strategic advisors and construction management professionals. WSP USA designs lasting solutions in the buildings, transportation, energy, water and environment markets. With more than 15,000 employees in over 300 offices across the U.S., we partner with our clients to help communities prosper.
WSP provides a flexible and agile workplace model while meeting client needs. Employees are also afforded a comprehensive suite of benefits including medical, dental, vision, disability, life, and retirement savings focused on providing health and financial stability throughout the employee’s career.
At WSP, we want to give our employees the challenges they seek to grow their careers and knowledge base. Your daily contributions to your team will be essential in meeting client objectives, goals and challenges. Are you ready to get started?
WSP USA (and all of its U.S. companies) is an Equal Opportunity Employer Race/Age/Color/Religion/Sex/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity/National Origin/Disability or Protected Veteran Status.
The selected candidate must be authorized to work in the United States.
NOTICE TO THIRD PARTY AGENCIES:
WSP does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruiters, employment agencies, or other staffing services. Unsolicited resumes include any resume or hiring document sent to WSP in the absence of a signed Service Agreement where WSP has expressly requested recruitment/staffing services specific to the position at hand. Any unsolicited resumes, including those submitted to hiring managers or other business leaders, will become the property of WSP and WSP will have the right to hire that candidate without reservation – no fee or other compensation will be owed or paid to the recruiter, employment agency, or other staffing service.
INTRODUCTION
WSP is currently initiating a search for a Senior Project Manager/Team Leader to join our Industrial Center of Excellence (ICoE) national practice. This role will support a growing portfolio of industrial and advanced manufacturing projects and offers the opportunity to work within a collaborative multidisciplinary environment focused on delivering high-quality solutions to our clients. This position will include advisory interaction with our clients’ leadership and executive teams, guiding them in decisions around their most important CAPEX initiatives.
Be involved in impactful projects with our Property & Buildings / Industrial team and be part of a global organization that is driven by innovation, technical excellence, and a commitment to client success.
Your Impact
As a Senior Project Manager, you will be responsible for leading complex industrial facilities projects from planning through execution, while managing client relationships, project teams, schedules, and budgets.
Responsibilities
- Primary driver on critical pursuits, responsible for developing and implementing winning strategies for expanding our business and facilitating team growth.
- Build and manage a book of business as Program Manager/Leader, mentoring other PMs into similar roles growing our large client base.
- Foresees and anticipates project issues, provides guidance to mitigate risks.
- Lead and manage industrial facilities projects, including advanced manufacturing, distribution, and process-driven facilities.
- Serve as the primary point of contact for clients, ensuring project objectives, scope, schedule, and budget are met.
- Coordinate multidisciplinary teams, including architectural, engineering, and specialty consultants.
- Oversee project planning, scheduling, and staffing.
- Financial performance management for both projects and teams.
- Support business development efforts, including proposal development and client presentations.
- Identify and mitigate project risks while ensuring quality, safety, and compliance with WSP standards.
- Mentor and support junior project managers and technical staff.
- Collaborate closely with regional and national ICoE leadership.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Architecture, Construction Management, or a related field.
- Minimum 12+ years of experience managing industrial or manufacturing facilities-related projects.
- Proven experience leading project management and multidisciplinary design teams including direct and indirect reporting team members and partners.
- Strong understanding of industrial facilities, manufacturing environments, and building systems.
- Experienced with alternate construction delivery models on greenfield and brownfield industrial projects including new construction, facility and system upgrades, and facility retrofits.
- Excellent client management, communication, and leadership skills.
- Skilled at managing project financials, schedules, and contracts.
- PMP certification or PE license preferred, but not required.
Preferred Experience
- Advanced manufacturing or industrial facilities project experience.
- Experience working with large, complex projects and multiple stakeholders.
- Familiarity with design-build or alternative delivery methods.
WSP Benefits:
WSP provides a comprehensive suite of benefits focused on 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: $157,500 - $233,600
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.
About WSP
WSP USA is the U.S. operating company of WSP, one of the world's leading engineering and professional services firms. Dedicated to serving local communities, we are engineers, planners, technical experts, strategic advisors and construction management professionals. WSP USA designs lasting solutions in the buildings, transportation, energy, water and environment markets. With more than 15,000 employees in over 300 offices across the U.S., we partner with our clients to help communities prosper.
WSP provides a flexible and agile workplace model while meeting client needs. Employees are also afforded a comprehensive suite of benefits including medical, dental, vision, disability, life, and retirement savings focused on providing health and financial stability throughout the employee’s career.
At WSP, we want to give our employees the challenges they seek to grow their careers and knowledge base. Your daily contributions to your team will be essential in meeting client objectives, goals and challenges. Are you ready to get started?
WSP USA (and all of its U.S. companies) is an Equal Opportunity Employer Race/Age/Color/Religion/Sex/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity/National Origin/Disability or Protected Veteran Status.
The selected candidate must be authorized to work in the United States.
NOTICE TO THIRD PARTY AGENCIES:
WSP does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruiters, employment agencies, or other staffing services. Unsolicited resumes include any resume or hiring document sent to WSP in the absence of a signed Service Agreement where WSP has expressly requested recruitment/staffing services specific to the position at hand. Any unsolicited resumes, including those submitted to hiring managers or other business leaders, will become the property of WSP and WSP will have the right to hire that candidate without reservation – no fee or other compensation will be owed or paid to the recruiter, employment agency, or other staffing service.
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding Business Manager Jobs at WSP Jobs
Align your credentials to WSP's sectors
WSP's Business Manager roles span infrastructure, environmental consulting, and advisory services. Before applying, map your project management or client delivery experience directly to one of these practice areas. Generic consulting backgrounds get screened out faster than sector-specific ones.
Target WSP's regional hubs strategically
WSP concentrates Business Manager hiring in offices tied to major infrastructure markets. Search by specific metro areas like New York, Houston, or Dallas rather than browsing nationally. Offices with active project pipelines are far more likely to initiate sponsorship for incoming hires.
Clarify your visa category before interviews
WSP sponsors multiple visa types for this role, including H-1B, E-3, TN, and F-1 OPT. Know which category applies to your nationality and current status before your first recruiter call. Arriving unprepared on this point signals risk to hiring managers at the offer stage.
Use Migrate Mate to filter open roles
Business Manager openings at WSP that include visa sponsorship aren't always labeled clearly on general job boards. Use Migrate Mate to filter WSP's active listings by sponsorship type, so you're only spending time on roles where your visa situation is already a fit.
Get your LCA timing right before your start date
WSP files a Labor Condition Application with the DOL before submitting your H-1B or E-3 petition. This step takes at least seven business days. Factor that into your negotiated start date so there's no gap between your expected first day and when your petition can legally be filed.
Prepare a business case for your role's necessity
For PERM-based Green Card sponsorship, WSP must demonstrate your Business Manager role couldn't be filled by a qualified U.S. worker. Document specialized skills in client management, cross-disciplinary project oversight, or sector-specific regulatory knowledge that differentiate your candidacy from a general applicant pool.
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Find Business Manager at WSP JobsFrequently Asked Questions
Does WSP sponsor H-1B visas for Business Managers?
Yes, WSP sponsors H-1B visas for Business Manager roles. Because the H-1B is subject to an annual cap and lottery, timing matters. WSP typically initiates the process well before the April filing window. If you're already on an H-1B with another employer, a transfer is possible without waiting for the next lottery cycle.
How do I apply for Business Manager jobs at WSP?
Apply directly through WSP's careers portal or find open roles filtered by sponsorship eligibility on Migrate Mate. When applying, tailor your resume to the specific practice area the role sits in, whether that's infrastructure, environmental, or advisory. WSP recruiters screen for sector alignment early, so a generic application is easy to overlook.
Which visa types does WSP commonly use for Business Manager roles?
WSP sponsors H-1B, E-3, TN, F-1 OPT, F-1 CPT, and employment-based Green Cards (EB-2 and EB-3) for Business Manager positions. The right category depends on your nationality and current status. Australian citizens are strong candidates for the E-3, which skips the H-1B lottery entirely. Canadian and Mexican nationals may qualify for TN status.
What qualifications does WSP expect for sponsored Business Manager roles?
WSP generally looks for a bachelor's degree in a relevant field such as business administration, engineering, or environmental science, combined with demonstrated experience managing project budgets, client relationships, or multidisciplinary teams. For H-1B purposes, the role must qualify as a specialty occupation, so the degree-to-job-function alignment in your application materials needs to be explicit and precise.
How long does the sponsorship process take for a Business Manager at WSP?
For an H-1B, the standard timeline runs from petition filing in April to an October 1 start date. E-3 sponsorship moves faster since there's no lottery, often taking four to eight weeks from offer acceptance to visa issuance. Green Card sponsorship through PERM typically takes two or more years and is usually initiated after you've established yourself in the role.
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