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Data center roles in infrastructure management, network operations, and systems engineering qualify for employment-based green card sponsorship through the PERM labor certification process. Employers filing EB-2 or EB-3 petitions must document prevailing wage compliance before USCIS adjudicates your I-140, making employer selection and credential alignment critical from the start.
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Accelerate possibilities. The WSP Data Center CoE (Center of Excellence) is growing, and we’re looking for smart, responsive, collaborative people to join us. Our CoE is 100% focused on data centers—supporting the world’s leading AI and cloud infrastructure companies. You’ll work to help tackle our clients’ biggest challenges: Where to build? How to secure power and water? How to develop responsibly and become a valued part of the community? AI is transforming life from scientific discoveries to smarter transportation and more sustainable communities. Data centers make it possible.
With us, you can build impact, deliver remarkable projects, and grow your career while shaping the future of the data center industry.
This Opportunity
WSP is currently initiating a search for a Project Manager. As a Project Manager with us, you will lead a diverse group of engineers from project initiation through completion with minimal oversight. This includes regular communications and coordination with clients, managing expectations, writing, and managing proposals, creating change orders, composing budgets, invoicing and project closeout.
Your Impact
- Lead teams of Engineers, Designers and other staff through project completion;
- Lead the teams through the successful completion of medium to large projects while managing more than one project at a time;
- Prepare project work plans, proposals, and schedules, and obtain management/client approval;
- Maintain regular communication with clients regarding project status and project quality, and proactively resolve issues;
- Manage relationships with project stakeholders, including internal and external clients and vendors, regulatory authorities and technical agencies, and the public. This involves keeping the stakeholders informed of progress and issues in order to manage expectations on all project requirements and deliverables, and meet the project schedule;
- Proactively track, analyze and report on actual performance against the plan, and prepare cost and schedule reporting, both for clients and as part of internal reporting processes. Address change management matters promptly and professionally with clients and internal departments;
- Internal reporting includes: Monthly project financial forecast, project budget maintenance, key performance indicator monitoring;
- Analyze project management and project delivery risks, establish contingency plans and identify trigger events and responsibility for initiating mitigating action;
- Lead and manage business development initiatives including Requests for Qualifications and Requests for Proposals; with input from others, compile a comprehensive and realistic scope of work, and prepare a complete and accurate fee estimate, in a format suitable for obtaining the required management approvals;
- As Team Leader, provide mentoring, assistance, encouragement and motivation to team members;
- Provide general administrative and technical leadership for the project; Maintain all project records and monitor correspondence;
- Schedule and facilitate all project meetings required to successfully coordinate work activity;
- Administer subconsultant agreements as assigned;
- Implement and manage the kW Quality Control Plan for each project;
- Proactively track and report workload management throughout the project;
- Management of client and subconsultant invoicing.
Who You Are
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree;
- 3+ years of experience in Project and/or Program Management and experience on large, engineering and/or construction projects;
- Experience leading multi-disciplinary teams of project professionals; concurrently managing issues, scope and quality while bringing projects to successful completion within the cost and time requirements;
- Exceptional written and oral communication skills, including experience making presentations to senior management;
- Exceptional interpersonal skills;
- Ability to work well with people from many different disciplines with varying degrees of technical experience;
- Clear, concise, and tactful communication with senior management, clients, peers and staff;
- Strategic, conceptual analytical thinking and decision-making skills;
- Adaptability and flexibility including the ability to manage deadline pressure, ambiguity and change;
- Experience negotiating contract terms;
- Proficiency with computer office productivity (i.e., MS Office) and project management software tools;
- Detail oriented with ability to manage multiple priorities and meet deadlines;
- Familiarity reading drawings and specifications.
Preferred Qualifications
- Project or Program Management Professional certification (i.e., PMP);
- Experience in an engineering consulting environment;
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering, construction management, project management;
- Experience in project planning, cost management and schedule management, and methods of analyzing and reporting project performance on financial and other KPIs.
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
Accelerate possibilities. The WSP Data Center CoE (Center of Excellence) is growing, and we’re looking for smart, responsive, collaborative people to join us. Our CoE is 100% focused on data centers—supporting the world’s leading AI and cloud infrastructure companies. You’ll work to help tackle our clients’ biggest challenges: Where to build? How to secure power and water? How to develop responsibly and become a valued part of the community? AI is transforming life from scientific discoveries to smarter transportation and more sustainable communities. Data centers make it possible.
With us, you can build impact, deliver remarkable projects, and grow your career while shaping the future of the data center industry.
This Opportunity
WSP is currently initiating a search for a Project Manager. As a Project Manager with us, you will lead a diverse group of engineers from project initiation through completion with minimal oversight. This includes regular communications and coordination with clients, managing expectations, writing, and managing proposals, creating change orders, composing budgets, invoicing and project closeout.
Your Impact
- Lead teams of Engineers, Designers and other staff through project completion;
- Lead the teams through the successful completion of medium to large projects while managing more than one project at a time;
- Prepare project work plans, proposals, and schedules, and obtain management/client approval;
- Maintain regular communication with clients regarding project status and project quality, and proactively resolve issues;
- Manage relationships with project stakeholders, including internal and external clients and vendors, regulatory authorities and technical agencies, and the public. This involves keeping the stakeholders informed of progress and issues in order to manage expectations on all project requirements and deliverables, and meet the project schedule;
- Proactively track, analyze and report on actual performance against the plan, and prepare cost and schedule reporting, both for clients and as part of internal reporting processes. Address change management matters promptly and professionally with clients and internal departments;
- Internal reporting includes: Monthly project financial forecast, project budget maintenance, key performance indicator monitoring;
- Analyze project management and project delivery risks, establish contingency plans and identify trigger events and responsibility for initiating mitigating action;
- Lead and manage business development initiatives including Requests for Qualifications and Requests for Proposals; with input from others, compile a comprehensive and realistic scope of work, and prepare a complete and accurate fee estimate, in a format suitable for obtaining the required management approvals;
- As Team Leader, provide mentoring, assistance, encouragement and motivation to team members;
- Provide general administrative and technical leadership for the project; Maintain all project records and monitor correspondence;
- Schedule and facilitate all project meetings required to successfully coordinate work activity;
- Administer subconsultant agreements as assigned;
- Implement and manage the kW Quality Control Plan for each project;
- Proactively track and report workload management throughout the project;
- Management of client and subconsultant invoicing.
Who You Are
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree;
- 3+ years of experience in Project and/or Program Management and experience on large, engineering and/or construction projects;
- Experience leading multi-disciplinary teams of project professionals; concurrently managing issues, scope and quality while bringing projects to successful completion within the cost and time requirements;
- Exceptional written and oral communication skills, including experience making presentations to senior management;
- Exceptional interpersonal skills;
- Ability to work well with people from many different disciplines with varying degrees of technical experience;
- Clear, concise, and tactful communication with senior management, clients, peers and staff;
- Strategic, conceptual analytical thinking and decision-making skills;
- Adaptability and flexibility including the ability to manage deadline pressure, ambiguity and change;
- Experience negotiating contract terms;
- Proficiency with computer office productivity (i.e., MS Office) and project management software tools;
- Detail oriented with ability to manage multiple priorities and meet deadlines;
- Familiarity reading drawings and specifications.
Preferred Qualifications
- Project or Program Management Professional certification (i.e., PMP);
- Experience in an engineering consulting environment;
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering, construction management, project management;
- Experience in project planning, cost management and schedule management, and methods of analyzing and reporting project performance on financial and other KPIs.
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 Green Card Sponsorship in Data Center
Align your credentials to EB-2 or EB-3
Data center roles split between EB-3 skilled worker petitions and EB-2 advanced-degree filings depending on the employer's job requirements. Document your education and any relevant certifications before targeting roles, so you know which category your profile supports.
Request PERM prevailing wage documentation early
Before accepting an offer, ask the employer whether they've obtained a Prevailing Wage Determination from DOL. PERM stalls when employers haven't completed this step, and data center hiring managers rarely volunteer that information upfront.
Target employers with active PERM filing history
Use Migrate Mate to filter data center job listings by employers with a verified green card sponsorship track record. Applying only to companies that have completed PERM filings before dramatically cuts the time you spend on employers who won't follow through.
Verify employer E-Verify enrollment before signing
PERM-sponsored roles require the employer to complete Form I-9 verification. Confirm the employer is enrolled in E-Verify, since unenrolled employers create compliance complications that can delay or derail the green card filing process entirely.
Check your priority date against the Visa Bulletin
For EB-3 applicants from India or China, the priority date backlog can extend the green card timeline by years even after USCIS approves the I-140. Review the monthly Visa Bulletin so your timeline expectations reflect the actual queue, not just PERM and I-140 processing.
Use the OFLC Wage Search to negotiate salary confidently
PERM requires the employer to pay at least the prevailing wage for your data center role and location. Running your job title through the OFLC Wage Search before your offer stage lets you identify whether a proposed salary actually meets that threshold.
Green Card Data Center: Frequently Asked Questions
Do data center roles qualify for EB-2 or EB-3 green card sponsorship?
Both categories apply depending on how the employer defines the position. Roles requiring a bachelor's degree in computer science, information technology, or a related field typically qualify under EB-3. Roles requiring a master's degree or equivalent advanced credentials can support an EB-2 petition. The employer's PERM job description determines the category, not your personal qualifications alone.
How does green card sponsorship differ from H-1B for data center professionals?
The H-1B visa grants temporary status in two-year or three-year increments and is subject to an annual lottery. PERM-based green card sponsorship is a permanent immigration process with no lottery and no annual cap at the EB-3 level for most nationalities. The tradeoff is timeline: PERM labor certification, I-140 approval, and adjustment of status typically take two to four years for non-backlogged countries, compared to H-1B's faster but temporary authorization.
What does the PERM labor certification process require from a data center employer?
The employer must conduct a documented recruitment campaign to demonstrate no qualified U.S. workers are available for the role, then submit the ETA Form 9089 to DOL for certification. For data center positions, this includes job postings, internal notices, and résumé review documentation. DOL audits are common, so employers with clean prior filings and proper documentation move through PERM faster.
How do I find data center employers that actively sponsor green cards?
Use Migrate Mate to search data center job listings filtered by employers with confirmed PERM and I-140 filing histories. Targeting employers who have completed the process before reduces the risk of starting PERM with a company that abandons the filing mid-process, which is a common problem in smaller data center operations and managed service providers.
Can I change employers after my I-140 is approved but before I have a green card?
Yes, in most cases. Under AC21 portability provisions, if your I-140 has been approved for at least 180 days and your adjustment of status application has been pending for at least 180 days, you can move to a new employer in a same or similar occupational classification without losing your priority date. For data center roles, the occupational classification is defined by your SOC code, so the new role must align with your original job duties.