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WSP is currently initiating a search for a Vice President, Electrical Engineer for our Tempe, AZ office location.
This role will be responsible for the development of new clients and projects in the science and technology sector and leading project teams to deliver those projects and grow those client relationships. We are looking to expand our sector footprint and need an experienced and connected individual who is driven to make and develop client relationships. This candidate will also actively participate in the full project cycle with a focus on complex sector work such as pharmaceutical, life sciences, labs, and industrial manufacturing projects from the design phase through the final construction close-out. Our engineers work on high quality, high-profile, national and international projects with our practice providing design services for over 30 million square feet of science and technology facilities.
We are a global leader in the practice of mechanical, electrical, plumbing and fire protection engineering and related specialty services for the built environment. Our work is embedded in the residences we live in, the healthcare facilities we rely on for routine medical procedures to life saving feats of medicine, the skyscrapers and buildings we work in, and the operations of our buildings. 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 expand our skylines.
Your Impact
WSP's vision is based on a passionate, thoughtful strategy that embraces the four pillars of our business: Clients, People & Culture, Operational Excellence, and Expertise:
Clients
- Drives the performance of the facility-based science and technology-focused business and strategically grows our market share to fulfill our goal of making WSP our clients' preferred, trusted advisor.
- Manages local client coordination and cross-selling efforts in coordination with Region, District, National Business Lines, and Pursuit Management.
- Represent the firm in the facility-specific science and technology market through regular involvement in client and industry events and associations to promote intelligence gathering and pipeline development.
- Brings an expanded view and integrated response to complex challenges by leveraging our full suite of offerings across all end markets.
- Utilizes our extended reach of technical and subject matter experts (SMEs) across regions, districts, offices, and the globe to foster new and innovative client delivery.
People & Culture
- Works with the District Business Line Leader to attract the best industry talent by fostering a collaborative work environment, values inclusion and diversity, and invites broad, creative thinking – crafting a more attractive place to work, grow, and thrive.
- Emphasizes employee training and development to create a unique work experience.
- Inspires, motivates, and promotes the best of WSP to our clients and communities to ensure strong employee engagement and morale.
- Supports programs such as Safety, Sustainability, and Ethics & Compliance.
Operational Excellence
- Optimizes the client and employee experience through regular reviews while embracing process improvement.
- Focuses on innovation and collaboration while maintaining and improving quality.
- Develop local growth, forecast, and business development strategy in collaboration with District, Region, and National Business Line Leaders.
- Resolves conflict and other internal/external issues that may arise in the office, amongst WSP's client base, or on projects.
- Collaborates with regional, district leaders and other area leaders to strategically drive the business, assess and suggest improvements for project performance, oversee overhead expenditures, and focus on Key Performance Indicators (KPIs): Sales, Funding, EBITDA, Staff Hiring and Retention, DSO, Utilization, Backlog, Inclusion & Diversity, and Guiding Principles.
Expertise
- Leverages our broad technical experience to enhance current and new service offerings.
- Fosters the development of new and emerging innovations to remain the trusted thought leaders in our industry.
- Advances the region's strategic direction in the location of responsibility for sustained and continued growth consistent within the context of the strategic plan.
- Encourages, supports, and promotes the technical and professional development of local WSP staff.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering or Architectural Engineering
- 12+ years of relevant post education experience as an electrical engineer.
- Professional Engineering license required.
- Extensive knowledge of electrical design, particularly in the science and technology industry.
- Known in the local community with an extensive network.
- Proficient with electrical engineering principles, practices, process, design/build, and the application to permitting and project work-related issues.
- Experience with electrical 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 electrical construction laws, codes, regulations, compliance practices, and record-keeping requirements.
- Well-developed ability to make technical computations and calculations involving the application of electrical 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 Life Sciences or Pharmaceutical design experience.
- At least 5+ years of Project Management experience.
- 40-Hour OSHA Health & Safety Training (HAZWOPER) (29 CFR 1910.120) preferred.
- Basic First Aid and Adult CPR training desired.
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 (all locations): $147,200 - $218,570
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 Vice President, Electrical Engineer for our Tempe, AZ office location.
This role will be responsible for the development of new clients and projects in the science and technology sector and leading project teams to deliver those projects and grow those client relationships. We are looking to expand our sector footprint and need an experienced and connected individual who is driven to make and develop client relationships. This candidate will also actively participate in the full project cycle with a focus on complex sector work such as pharmaceutical, life sciences, labs, and industrial manufacturing projects from the design phase through the final construction close-out. Our engineers work on high quality, high-profile, national and international projects with our practice providing design services for over 30 million square feet of science and technology facilities.
We are a global leader in the practice of mechanical, electrical, plumbing and fire protection engineering and related specialty services for the built environment. Our work is embedded in the residences we live in, the healthcare facilities we rely on for routine medical procedures to life saving feats of medicine, the skyscrapers and buildings we work in, and the operations of our buildings. 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 expand our skylines.
Your Impact
WSP's vision is based on a passionate, thoughtful strategy that embraces the four pillars of our business: Clients, People & Culture, Operational Excellence, and Expertise:
Clients
- Drives the performance of the facility-based science and technology-focused business and strategically grows our market share to fulfill our goal of making WSP our clients' preferred, trusted advisor.
- Manages local client coordination and cross-selling efforts in coordination with Region, District, National Business Lines, and Pursuit Management.
- Represent the firm in the facility-specific science and technology market through regular involvement in client and industry events and associations to promote intelligence gathering and pipeline development.
- Brings an expanded view and integrated response to complex challenges by leveraging our full suite of offerings across all end markets.
- Utilizes our extended reach of technical and subject matter experts (SMEs) across regions, districts, offices, and the globe to foster new and innovative client delivery.
People & Culture
- Works with the District Business Line Leader to attract the best industry talent by fostering a collaborative work environment, values inclusion and diversity, and invites broad, creative thinking – crafting a more attractive place to work, grow, and thrive.
- Emphasizes employee training and development to create a unique work experience.
- Inspires, motivates, and promotes the best of WSP to our clients and communities to ensure strong employee engagement and morale.
- Supports programs such as Safety, Sustainability, and Ethics & Compliance.
Operational Excellence
- Optimizes the client and employee experience through regular reviews while embracing process improvement.
- Focuses on innovation and collaboration while maintaining and improving quality.
- Develop local growth, forecast, and business development strategy in collaboration with District, Region, and National Business Line Leaders.
- Resolves conflict and other internal/external issues that may arise in the office, amongst WSP's client base, or on projects.
- Collaborates with regional, district leaders and other area leaders to strategically drive the business, assess and suggest improvements for project performance, oversee overhead expenditures, and focus on Key Performance Indicators (KPIs): Sales, Funding, EBITDA, Staff Hiring and Retention, DSO, Utilization, Backlog, Inclusion & Diversity, and Guiding Principles.
Expertise
- Leverages our broad technical experience to enhance current and new service offerings.
- Fosters the development of new and emerging innovations to remain the trusted thought leaders in our industry.
- Advances the region's strategic direction in the location of responsibility for sustained and continued growth consistent within the context of the strategic plan.
- Encourages, supports, and promotes the technical and professional development of local WSP staff.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering or Architectural Engineering
- 12+ years of relevant post education experience as an electrical engineer.
- Professional Engineering license required.
- Extensive knowledge of electrical design, particularly in the science and technology industry.
- Known in the local community with an extensive network.
- Proficient with electrical engineering principles, practices, process, design/build, and the application to permitting and project work-related issues.
- Experience with electrical 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 electrical construction laws, codes, regulations, compliance practices, and record-keeping requirements.
- Well-developed ability to make technical computations and calculations involving the application of electrical 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 Life Sciences or Pharmaceutical design experience.
- At least 5+ years of Project Management experience.
- 40-Hour OSHA Health & Safety Training (HAZWOPER) (29 CFR 1910.120) preferred.
- Basic First Aid and Adult CPR training desired.
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 (all locations): $147,200 - $218,570
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 Electrician Jobs at WSP
Align Your Credentials to U.S. Licensing Standards
WSP operates across multiple states, each with its own journeyman or master electrician licensing requirements. Research the specific license tier required in your target WSP office's state before applying, so your credentials translate cleanly during screening.
Target WSP's Infrastructure and Energy Practice Areas
Electrician openings at WSP cluster around power systems, transit electrification, and energy transition projects. Tailoring your resume and portfolio to these verticals, rather than general commercial electrical work, significantly improves your relevance to the roles WSP actually fills.
Search Verified WSP Electrician Roles on Migrate Mate
Filtering for confirmed visa-sponsoring employers saves time when you're on OPT or another status with a hard deadline. Migrate Mate lists WSP's open Electrician positions and flags which visa types they support, so you can apply with confidence rather than guessing.
Understand How WSP Uses the TN Visa for Electricians
If you hold Canadian or Mexican citizenship, the TN visa doesn't require USCIS petition approval and has no annual cap, making it a faster path than H-1B. Confirm your specific electrical engineering or technician credential maps to an eligible TN occupation before your offer stage.
Clarify Sponsorship Scope During the Offer Negotiation
WSP sponsors across multiple visa categories, but not every role supports every pathway. Ask directly during the offer stage whether the position is structured for H-1B cap filing, E-3, or another category, so there's no misalignment when the recruiter engages immigration counsel.
Start DOL Prevailing Wage Research Before Your First Interview
For H-1B and PERM-based sponsorship, DOL prevailing wage determinations set the floor for your offered salary. Reviewing the current wage level for electrician roles in your target city lets you negotiate informed and signals to WSP that you understand the compliance side of sponsorship.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does WSP sponsor H-1B visas for Electricians?
Yes, WSP sponsors H-1B visas for Electrician roles. As a large infrastructure and professional services firm, WSP has established immigration processes and works with outside counsel to manage H-1B petitions. Because H-1B is subject to the annual cap and lottery, timing your application cycle with WSP's recruitment calendar is important, particularly for roles starting in October.
How do I apply for Electrician jobs at WSP?
You can browse and apply for Electrician openings at WSP directly through their careers portal, or find roles confirmed for visa sponsorship through Migrate Mate. When applying, tailor your application to WSP's specific practice areas, such as power delivery, transit, or energy systems, and be prepared to discuss your work authorization status early in the recruiter conversation.
Which visa types does WSP commonly use for Electrician roles?
WSP sponsors Electricians across several visa categories, including H-1B, E-3 visa for Australian citizens, TN visa for Canadian and Mexican nationals, and F-1 OPT and CPT for students in qualifying programs. For longer-term pathways, WSP also supports EB-2 and EB-3 Green Card sponsorship, typically after a period of employment and through the PERM labor certification process.
What qualifications does WSP expect from Electricians seeking visa sponsorship?
WSP generally looks for electricians with relevant trade qualifications, applicable state licensing or a clear path to obtaining it, and hands-on experience in infrastructure, industrial, or large-scale commercial electrical systems. For specialty occupation visa categories like H-1B, your role typically needs to require at least a bachelor's degree or equivalent in a relevant field, so roles with a stronger engineering or technical design component tend to be better supported.
How do I think about visa filing timelines when targeting WSP?
If you're pursuing H-1B sponsorship, USCIS opens registration in March for an October 1 start date, so you need an offer in hand by late February at the latest. E-3 and TN visas don't follow a cap cycle and can be filed year-round, giving more scheduling flexibility. For F-1 OPT extensions, your 60-day grace period between roles makes prompt outreach to WSP's HR team essential to avoid gaps in work authorization.