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Electrical Project Engineer roles in power systems, industrial automation, and infrastructure qualify as E-3 visa specialty occupations, making them strong candidates for visa sponsorship. Australian engineers with a bachelor's in electrical engineering can secure E-3 status without a lottery, with employer filings processed through the DOL and USCIS.
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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 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.
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.
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 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.
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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Translate your Australian credentials for U.S. employers
A three-year Australian electrical engineering degree is generally accepted as equivalent to a U.S. four-year degree for E-3 specialty occupation purposes. Get a credential evaluation from a NACES-member organization before you start applying so you're ready when employers ask.
Target employers with active DOL LCA filing history
Search the DOL's Office of Foreign Labor Certification disclosure data to identify engineering firms and utilities that have filed LCAs for electrical project roles. Employers already familiar with the LCA process move faster through sponsorship than those encountering it for the first time.
Confirm your role clears the specialty occupation bar
Not every Electrical Project Engineer title qualifies automatically. Roles requiring only general engineering supervision, with no degree-specific requirement in the job posting, can fail USCIS review. Make sure your offer letter specifies that a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering is required, not just preferred.
Use Migrate Mate's E-3 filing service for LCA and consulate prep
Your employer files the LCA with DOL, but coordinating that with your DS-160, MRV fee, and consulate appointment takes careful sequencing. Migrate Mate's E-3 filing service manages the entire process from offer to consulate appointment, reducing back-and-forth with your employer's HR team.
Ask employers about E-Verify enrollment before accepting offers
Most large engineering firms and federal contractors are already E-Verify enrolled, which speeds up your I-9 process after arrival. If a smaller employer isn't enrolled, factor that into your timeline, since enrollment adds a step before your first day.
Start your consulate appointment search before your offer finalizes
Sydney, Melbourne, and Perth each have different E-3 appointment availability, and wait times shift throughout the year. Check appointment calendars at all three consulates as soon as you're close to an offer, so you can negotiate a start date your employer can realistically work around.
E-3 Visa Electrical Project Engineer: Frequently Asked Questions
How do I find Electrical Project Engineer jobs with E-3 visa sponsorship?
Migrate Mate is built specifically for this search. It surfaces Electrical Project Engineer roles at employers with a history of sponsoring Australian professionals on the E-3 visa, filtering out postings where sponsorship is unlikely. That saves you from investing time in applications at firms that haven't sponsored before or don't understand the E-3 process.
How much does it cost to get an E-3 visa?
Migrate Mate's E-3 filing service covers the entire process for $499, including the Labor Condition Application, visa document preparation, and consulate appointment guidance. Traditional immigration lawyers charge $2,000–$5,000+ for the same work. The E-3 has less paperwork than most work visas, so paying thousands for legal help is usually unnecessary.
Does an Electrical Project Engineer role qualify as an E-3 specialty occupation?
Electrical Project Engineer roles qualify when the position requires a bachelor's degree or higher in electrical engineering or a directly related field. The key is that the degree requirement must be genuine and specific. Generalist engineering manager roles, or postings that list a degree as preferred rather than required, can face USCIS scrutiny. Your offer letter should clearly state the educational requirement.
How does the E-3 visa compare to H-1B for Electrical Project Engineers?
The E-3 has two major advantages over H-1B visa for Australian engineers: there's no annual lottery, and the annual allocation of 10,500 visas has never been fully used. You can apply year-round whenever you have a qualifying job offer. H-1B registrations are capped at 85,000 per year and selected by lottery, meaning qualified engineers are often rejected on probability alone.
Can I switch employers while on an E-3 visa as an Electrical Project Engineer?
Yes, but your E-3 status is employer-specific. When you change jobs, your new employer must file a fresh LCA with the DOL and you'll need a new E-3 visa stamp at a consulate before starting. You can work for the new employer after the LCA is certified and your new visa is issued, so plan the transition timeline with at least four to six weeks of lead time.