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WSP USA is seeking a dynamic, growth-oriented Nuclear Business Development Lead for the U.S. Earth & Environment (E&E) business. Reporting to the Power & Energy Sector Lead, this role will drive growth in the nuclear market by identifying, shaping, and advancing opportunities that align E&E capabilities with client needs and WSP’s broader nuclear strategy.
The Nuclear Business Development Lead will serve as E&E’s principal growth leader in the U.S. nuclear market, working closely with other WSP business lines to bring integrated solutions to clients. The successful candidate will leverage an established network across nuclear developers, utilities, contractors, engineering partners, technology providers, and other industry stakeholders to build pipeline, strengthen strategic relationships, position WSP for priority pursuits, and convert opportunities into profitable work.
A Day in the Life
As the Nuclear Business Development Lead, you will:
- Develop and execute a U.S. nuclear business development plan for E&E in alignment with the E&E Power & Energy sector strategy.
- Build, qualify, and manage a robust pipeline of nuclear opportunities across new generation, Small Modular Reactors (SMRs), existing fleet support, environmental services, permitting, remediation, decommissioning, waste management, and related infrastructure.
- Leverage established relationships with developers, utilities, contractors, engineering partners, technology providers, and other key industry participants to create early visibility into upcoming work.
- Collaborate across E&E, Power & Energy, Transportation & Infrastructure, Property & Buildings, and other business lines to assemble differentiated, integrated client solutions.
- Lead account planning, opportunity capture, teaming, and pursuit strategies from initial engagement through contract award.
- Develop strategic partnerships and teaming arrangements that expand WSP’s access, credibility, and delivery capacity in the nuclear market.
- Represent WSP at client meetings, industry conferences, trade associations, and partner forums.
- Provide market intelligence on clients, competitors, procurement models, regulatory developments, capital programs, and emerging technologies.
- Promote a culture of safety, collaboration, client focus, technical excellence, and disciplined growth.
Your Impact
Strategic Leadership
- Translate the U.S. nuclear market outlook into focused growth priorities, target accounts, and actionable pursuit plans for E&E.
- Advise the Power & Energy Sector Lead and E&E leadership on market expansion, investment priorities, partnerships, and competitive positioning.
- Establish growth targets and track pipeline, sales, win rate, and other leading indicators of business development performance.
- Coordinate with WSP’s U.S. and global nuclear leaders to align account strategies, share intelligence, and deploy the best available capabilities.
Business Development & Market Growth
- Establish and maintain senior-level relationships across the U.S. nuclear ecosystem, with particular emphasis on developers, contractors, engineering partners, utilities, and technology providers.
- Create access to opportunities early in the project lifecycle and help shape scopes, delivery models, and teaming strategies.
- Drive disciplined pipeline development, qualification, forecasting, and conversion to support revenue and backlog growth.
- Lead capture planning for priority pursuits and coordinate compelling value propositions, win themes, and proposal strategies.
- Support negotiations for strategic contracts, master service agreements, joint pursuits, and teaming arrangements.
- Identify and activate cross-selling opportunities that connect E&E services with capabilities across other WSP business lines.
Client Leadership
- Serve as a senior relationship leader for selected nuclear accounts and prospects.
- Build trusted-advisor relationships by understanding client investment plans, project risks, procurement strategies, and delivery challenges.
- Connect clients with the right technical, environmental, advisory, engineering, and program delivery expertise from across WSP.
- Partner with project and operations leaders to expand existing accounts and identify follow-on opportunities while maintaining strong client outcomes.
Industry & Partnership Development
- Represent WSP in priority U.S. nuclear organizations, associations, and market forums.
- Cultivate relationships with developers, EPC contractors, engineering firms, specialty subcontractors, technology vendors, research institutions, and financial or public-sector stakeholders.
- Evaluate prospective partners and develop teaming strategies that complement WSP’s capabilities and improve competitiveness.
- Strengthen WSP’s market profile through speaking engagements, client workshops, publications, and targeted thought leadership.
Cross-Business-Line Collaboration
- Partner with E&E operations and technical leaders to align growth priorities with available capacity, credentials, and delivery capabilities.
- Form integrated pursuit teams across business lines and clarify roles, accountabilities, commercial considerations, and client interfaces.
- Help identify capability gaps and inform strategic hiring, partnerships, or acquisitions needed to support nuclear growth.
- Maintain strong alignment between business development commitments and safe, high-quality project delivery.
Who You Are
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Environmental Science, Business, or a related discipline.
- 15+ years of experience in the U.S. nuclear, energy, environmental, engineering, or infrastructure market, including significant business development responsibility.
- Demonstrated success developing client relationships, building qualified pipeline, leading capture strategies, and winning complex projects.
- Strong understanding of the U.S. nuclear market, including key clients, developers, contractors, engineering partners, technologies, regulatory considerations, and procurement models.
- Established network of senior relationships throughout the U.S. nuclear industry.
- Proven ability to influence and coordinate across business lines, geographies, technical disciplines, and operating teams in a matrixed organization.
- Exceptional communication, presentation, negotiation, commercial judgment, and relationship management skills.
- Ability to manage multiple strategic pursuits, maintain disciplined follow-through, and operate effectively in complex stakeholder environments.
- Ability to travel throughout the United States and internationally as required.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience supporting nuclear developers, utilities, EPC contractors, architect-engineer firms, government agencies, national laboratories, or technology providers.
- Familiarity with advanced nuclear and SMR development, licensing and permitting, site characterization, environmental services, existing fleet programs, decommissioning, and nuclear waste management.
- Experience developing and managing strategic accounts, alliances, and cross-organizational pursuits.
- Recognized industry presence and active participation in relevant U.S. nuclear associations and forums.
Compensation:
Expected Salary (all locations): $228,300 - $321,800
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.
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.
This Opportunity
WSP USA is seeking a dynamic, growth-oriented Nuclear Business Development Lead for the U.S. Earth & Environment (E&E) business. Reporting to the Power & Energy Sector Lead, this role will drive growth in the nuclear market by identifying, shaping, and advancing opportunities that align E&E capabilities with client needs and WSP’s broader nuclear strategy.
The Nuclear Business Development Lead will serve as E&E’s principal growth leader in the U.S. nuclear market, working closely with other WSP business lines to bring integrated solutions to clients. The successful candidate will leverage an established network across nuclear developers, utilities, contractors, engineering partners, technology providers, and other industry stakeholders to build pipeline, strengthen strategic relationships, position WSP for priority pursuits, and convert opportunities into profitable work.
A Day in the Life
As the Nuclear Business Development Lead, you will:
- Develop and execute a U.S. nuclear business development plan for E&E in alignment with the E&E Power & Energy sector strategy.
- Build, qualify, and manage a robust pipeline of nuclear opportunities across new generation, Small Modular Reactors (SMRs), existing fleet support, environmental services, permitting, remediation, decommissioning, waste management, and related infrastructure.
- Leverage established relationships with developers, utilities, contractors, engineering partners, technology providers, and other key industry participants to create early visibility into upcoming work.
- Collaborate across E&E, Power & Energy, Transportation & Infrastructure, Property & Buildings, and other business lines to assemble differentiated, integrated client solutions.
- Lead account planning, opportunity capture, teaming, and pursuit strategies from initial engagement through contract award.
- Develop strategic partnerships and teaming arrangements that expand WSP’s access, credibility, and delivery capacity in the nuclear market.
- Represent WSP at client meetings, industry conferences, trade associations, and partner forums.
- Provide market intelligence on clients, competitors, procurement models, regulatory developments, capital programs, and emerging technologies.
- Promote a culture of safety, collaboration, client focus, technical excellence, and disciplined growth.
Your Impact
Strategic Leadership
- Translate the U.S. nuclear market outlook into focused growth priorities, target accounts, and actionable pursuit plans for E&E.
- Advise the Power & Energy Sector Lead and E&E leadership on market expansion, investment priorities, partnerships, and competitive positioning.
- Establish growth targets and track pipeline, sales, win rate, and other leading indicators of business development performance.
- Coordinate with WSP’s U.S. and global nuclear leaders to align account strategies, share intelligence, and deploy the best available capabilities.
Business Development & Market Growth
- Establish and maintain senior-level relationships across the U.S. nuclear ecosystem, with particular emphasis on developers, contractors, engineering partners, utilities, and technology providers.
- Create access to opportunities early in the project lifecycle and help shape scopes, delivery models, and teaming strategies.
- Drive disciplined pipeline development, qualification, forecasting, and conversion to support revenue and backlog growth.
- Lead capture planning for priority pursuits and coordinate compelling value propositions, win themes, and proposal strategies.
- Support negotiations for strategic contracts, master service agreements, joint pursuits, and teaming arrangements.
- Identify and activate cross-selling opportunities that connect E&E services with capabilities across other WSP business lines.
Client Leadership
- Serve as a senior relationship leader for selected nuclear accounts and prospects.
- Build trusted-advisor relationships by understanding client investment plans, project risks, procurement strategies, and delivery challenges.
- Connect clients with the right technical, environmental, advisory, engineering, and program delivery expertise from across WSP.
- Partner with project and operations leaders to expand existing accounts and identify follow-on opportunities while maintaining strong client outcomes.
Industry & Partnership Development
- Represent WSP in priority U.S. nuclear organizations, associations, and market forums.
- Cultivate relationships with developers, EPC contractors, engineering firms, specialty subcontractors, technology vendors, research institutions, and financial or public-sector stakeholders.
- Evaluate prospective partners and develop teaming strategies that complement WSP’s capabilities and improve competitiveness.
- Strengthen WSP’s market profile through speaking engagements, client workshops, publications, and targeted thought leadership.
Cross-Business-Line Collaboration
- Partner with E&E operations and technical leaders to align growth priorities with available capacity, credentials, and delivery capabilities.
- Form integrated pursuit teams across business lines and clarify roles, accountabilities, commercial considerations, and client interfaces.
- Help identify capability gaps and inform strategic hiring, partnerships, or acquisitions needed to support nuclear growth.
- Maintain strong alignment between business development commitments and safe, high-quality project delivery.
Who You Are
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Environmental Science, Business, or a related discipline.
- 15+ years of experience in the U.S. nuclear, energy, environmental, engineering, or infrastructure market, including significant business development responsibility.
- Demonstrated success developing client relationships, building qualified pipeline, leading capture strategies, and winning complex projects.
- Strong understanding of the U.S. nuclear market, including key clients, developers, contractors, engineering partners, technologies, regulatory considerations, and procurement models.
- Established network of senior relationships throughout the U.S. nuclear industry.
- Proven ability to influence and coordinate across business lines, geographies, technical disciplines, and operating teams in a matrixed organization.
- Exceptional communication, presentation, negotiation, commercial judgment, and relationship management skills.
- Ability to manage multiple strategic pursuits, maintain disciplined follow-through, and operate effectively in complex stakeholder environments.
- Ability to travel throughout the United States and internationally as required.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience supporting nuclear developers, utilities, EPC contractors, architect-engineer firms, government agencies, national laboratories, or technology providers.
- Familiarity with advanced nuclear and SMR development, licensing and permitting, site characterization, environmental services, existing fleet programs, decommissioning, and nuclear waste management.
- Experience developing and managing strategic accounts, alliances, and cross-organizational pursuits.
- Recognized industry presence and active participation in relevant U.S. nuclear associations and forums.
Compensation:
Expected Salary (all locations): $228,300 - $321,800
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.
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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Align your credentials to WSP's project sectors
WSP's Development Manager roles span infrastructure, transit, and environmental consulting. Frame your resume around sector-specific project delivery, not just management titles. Consular officers and hiring managers both respond to concrete project outcomes tied to WSP's core service lines.
Prioritize LCA-filed locations in your search
WSP files Labor Condition Applications with the DOL tied to specific work locations. Targeting offices in cities where WSP has active LCA filings increases your odds of a faster sponsorship timeline and reduces back-and-forth on prevailing wage determinations during the offer stage.
Confirm sponsorship scope during initial recruiter contact
WSP sponsors across several visa categories, but not every Development Manager opening is approved for all types. Ask the recruiter directly which visa pathways are supported for the specific role before advancing to technical interviews.
Build a PMP or sector licensure before applying
WSP's Development Manager postings consistently reference project management credentials alongside engineering or environmental qualifications. Holding a PMP or relevant state licensure before you apply removes a common objection during sponsorship review and strengthens the specialty occupation case for H-1B petitions filed with USCIS.
Use Migrate Mate to filter verified WSP openings by visa type
Not every WSP job posting makes sponsorship eligibility clear. Use Migrate Mate to filter Development Manager roles at WSP by the visa types you need, so you're applying to positions where sponsorship is already confirmed rather than guessing from generic job board listings.
Understand the PERM timeline if targeting a Green Card
WSP supports EB-2 and EB-3 sponsorship for eligible roles, but PERM labor certification with the DOL adds months to the process. Raise Green Card interest early in offer negotiations so WSP's immigration team can assess whether the role qualifies and initiate PERM recruitment requirements in parallel.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does WSP sponsor H-1B visas for Development Managers?
Yes, WSP sponsors H-1B visas for Development Manager roles. WSP is a well-established H-1B sponsor with a consistent sponsorship history across consulting and infrastructure functions. Because H-1B sponsorship is employer-initiated, you'll need a signed offer before WSP can file the I-129 petition with USCIS. Confirm sponsorship eligibility for the specific role and office location early in the process.
Which visa types are commonly used for Development Manager roles at WSP?
WSP sponsors H-1B, E-3 visa, TN visa, and F-1 OPT and CPT for Development Manager positions, and supports EB-2 and EB-3 Green Card pathways for eligible candidates. E-3 visa applies to Australian citizens, and TN visa applies to Canadian and Mexican nationals in qualifying professional categories. The right visa type depends on your citizenship, degree field, and the specific role's requirements.
What qualifications and experience does WSP expect for Development Manager roles?
WSP's Development Manager postings typically require a bachelor's degree in engineering, planning, environmental science, or a related technical field, combined with several years of project delivery or client-facing management experience. A PMP certification or relevant professional licensure is frequently listed as preferred. For H-1B sponsorship, USCIS requires the role to qualify as a specialty occupation, so a field-specific degree is essential, not just general management experience.
How do I apply for Development Manager jobs at WSP?
Browse open Development Manager roles at WSP on Migrate Mate, where listings are filtered by visa sponsorship type so you can identify roles that match your authorization needs before applying. Once you identify a suitable posting, apply through WSP's careers portal and flag your visa sponsorship requirements early in recruiter conversations to avoid advancing through interviews before sponsorship feasibility is confirmed.
How do I plan my timeline for a Development Manager role at WSP with H-1B sponsorship?
If you need a new H-1B cap-subject petition, the annual lottery opens in March for an October 1 start date, meaning you need an offer in place by February at the latest. WSP can file H-1B transfers for candidates already holding H-1B status year-round without lottery constraints. F-1 OPT holders should account for the USCIS 90-day cap-gap period when planning a transition to H-1B status.