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WSP is seeking a Lead Substation Project Engineer for our Data Center Initiation Team in Overland Park, KS. The following locations will also be considered: Seattle, New York, and San Diego. We can also offer this position remotely. This role provides technical leadership for early-stage substation development and supports strategic decision-making for large-scale data center infrastructure projects.
As demand for AI, cloud computing, and digital infrastructure accelerates, our clients are developing some of the world's largest, most complex, and most power-intensive facilities. In this role, you will help deliver the electrical infrastructure that enables next-generation data center campuses—projects requiring hundreds of megawatts of power and unprecedented levels of planning, engineering, and coordination. You will work across the full project lifecycle, playing a key role in delivering critical infrastructure for some of the industry's most prominent clients.
What makes this opportunity unique is the breadth of collaboration across WSP's global organization. You will work alongside top experts in their field to solve highly complex infrastructure challenges. This multidisciplinary environment provides exposure to the full range of technical and strategic considerations required to successfully develop large-scale data center campuses. You will contribute to the planning and design of substations, transmission interconnections, and site electrical infrastructure while supporting fast-paced projects that demand innovation, technical excellence, and strong collaboration.
If you're energized by large-scale infrastructure projects, enjoy solving complex technical challenges, and want to help shape the future of digital infrastructure, this is an opportunity to make a lasting impact while accelerating your career on some of the most significant power delivery projects being developed today.
In this role, you’ll lead the development of innovative substation designs at the earliest stages of high-profile data center projects. Your work will directly enable clients to evaluate feasibility, scalability, and long-term reliability, setting the foundation for successful project delivery.
You’ll collaborate across WSP’s diverse business lines to assess site conditions, utility capacity, and system requirements, bringing together the insights needed to turn complex challenges into actionable solutions. As a technical leader, you’ll drive substation configuration, guide critical equipment selection, and define forward-thinking electrical infrastructure strategies.
Beyond design, you’ll play a key role in leading multidisciplinary teams and advancing projects from initial concept through to design handoff.
Your Impact
- Lead multidisciplinary coordination for site evaluation, infrastructure planning, and integration
- Support and contribute to proposal strategy, scope, and technical approach
- Lead execution of technical work during early project phases (initiation through design)
- Serve as a key interface with clients, utilities, and stakeholders
- Conduct site visits to validate designs and address constructability challenges
- Develop and track project scope, schedules, and technical deliverables
- Perform and oversee substation design, including:
- Physical design and/or protection & control systems
- Layouts, grounding, lightning protection, and SCADA integration
- Review and produce design deliverables (plans, elevations, wiring diagrams, etc.)
- Provide oversight and review of engineering studies and calculations
- Support equipment specification, procurement, and vendor evaluation
- Ensure QA/QC compliance across assigned deliverables
- Provide mentorship and technical guidance to junior engineers and designers
- Contribute to continuous improvement of design practices and standards
- Communicate technical concepts clearly to diverse audiences
- Exercise responsible and ethical decision-making regarding company funds, resources and conduct, and adhere to WSP’s Code of Conduct and related policies and procedures.
- Perform additional responsibilities as required by business needs.
Who You Are
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering
- 10+ years of substation design experience
- Experience leading design packages or acting as technical lead
- Strong knowledge of substation systems, equipment, and design standards
- Experience in either physical or P&C design (cross-discipline exposure preferred)
- Ability to independently execute and coordinate technical work
- Strong communication, leadership, and coordination skills
- Proven ability to manage competing priorities
- Must be flexible to a variety of schedules to meet business needs and able to prioritize responsibilities and quickly adapt to change in a pressure work environment.
- Demonstrated ability to mentor and support junior staff
- Occasional travel may be required depending on project-specific requirements.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Professional Engineer (PE) License
- Experience serving as technical lead on multi-discipline projects
- Data center or large infrastructure project experience
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): $119,600 - $213,000
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.
Expected Salary (Colorado only): $111,200 - $186,000
WSP USA is providing the compensation range that the company in good faith believes it might pay and/or offer for this position within the state of Colorado, based on the successful applicant’s education, experience, knowledge, skills, and 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 is seeking a Lead Substation Project Engineer for our Data Center Initiation Team in Overland Park, KS. The following locations will also be considered: Seattle, New York, and San Diego. We can also offer this position remotely. This role provides technical leadership for early-stage substation development and supports strategic decision-making for large-scale data center infrastructure projects.
As demand for AI, cloud computing, and digital infrastructure accelerates, our clients are developing some of the world's largest, most complex, and most power-intensive facilities. In this role, you will help deliver the electrical infrastructure that enables next-generation data center campuses—projects requiring hundreds of megawatts of power and unprecedented levels of planning, engineering, and coordination. You will work across the full project lifecycle, playing a key role in delivering critical infrastructure for some of the industry's most prominent clients.
What makes this opportunity unique is the breadth of collaboration across WSP's global organization. You will work alongside top experts in their field to solve highly complex infrastructure challenges. This multidisciplinary environment provides exposure to the full range of technical and strategic considerations required to successfully develop large-scale data center campuses. You will contribute to the planning and design of substations, transmission interconnections, and site electrical infrastructure while supporting fast-paced projects that demand innovation, technical excellence, and strong collaboration.
If you're energized by large-scale infrastructure projects, enjoy solving complex technical challenges, and want to help shape the future of digital infrastructure, this is an opportunity to make a lasting impact while accelerating your career on some of the most significant power delivery projects being developed today.
In this role, you’ll lead the development of innovative substation designs at the earliest stages of high-profile data center projects. Your work will directly enable clients to evaluate feasibility, scalability, and long-term reliability, setting the foundation for successful project delivery.
You’ll collaborate across WSP’s diverse business lines to assess site conditions, utility capacity, and system requirements, bringing together the insights needed to turn complex challenges into actionable solutions. As a technical leader, you’ll drive substation configuration, guide critical equipment selection, and define forward-thinking electrical infrastructure strategies.
Beyond design, you’ll play a key role in leading multidisciplinary teams and advancing projects from initial concept through to design handoff.
Your Impact
- Lead multidisciplinary coordination for site evaluation, infrastructure planning, and integration
- Support and contribute to proposal strategy, scope, and technical approach
- Lead execution of technical work during early project phases (initiation through design)
- Serve as a key interface with clients, utilities, and stakeholders
- Conduct site visits to validate designs and address constructability challenges
- Develop and track project scope, schedules, and technical deliverables
- Perform and oversee substation design, including:
- Physical design and/or protection & control systems
- Layouts, grounding, lightning protection, and SCADA integration
- Review and produce design deliverables (plans, elevations, wiring diagrams, etc.)
- Provide oversight and review of engineering studies and calculations
- Support equipment specification, procurement, and vendor evaluation
- Ensure QA/QC compliance across assigned deliverables
- Provide mentorship and technical guidance to junior engineers and designers
- Contribute to continuous improvement of design practices and standards
- Communicate technical concepts clearly to diverse audiences
- Exercise responsible and ethical decision-making regarding company funds, resources and conduct, and adhere to WSP’s Code of Conduct and related policies and procedures.
- Perform additional responsibilities as required by business needs.
Who You Are
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering
- 10+ years of substation design experience
- Experience leading design packages or acting as technical lead
- Strong knowledge of substation systems, equipment, and design standards
- Experience in either physical or P&C design (cross-discipline exposure preferred)
- Ability to independently execute and coordinate technical work
- Strong communication, leadership, and coordination skills
- Proven ability to manage competing priorities
- Must be flexible to a variety of schedules to meet business needs and able to prioritize responsibilities and quickly adapt to change in a pressure work environment.
- Demonstrated ability to mentor and support junior staff
- Occasional travel may be required depending on project-specific requirements.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Professional Engineer (PE) License
- Experience serving as technical lead on multi-discipline projects
- Data center or large infrastructure project experience
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): $119,600 - $213,000
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.
Expected Salary (Colorado only): $111,200 - $186,000
WSP USA is providing the compensation range that the company in good faith believes it might pay and/or offer for this position within the state of Colorado, based on the successful applicant’s education, experience, knowledge, skills, and 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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Document progressive scope across projects
PERM requires your employer to demonstrate you meet the minimum requirements for the role. Gather performance reviews, project charters, and org charts showing budget authority, team size, and delivery outcomes. Vague experience letters delay DOL review and can trigger audits.
Verify your degree meets EB-2 standards
EB-2 covers an advanced degree or a bachelor's degree plus five years of progressive experience. If your master's is from a non-U.S. institution, get a credential evaluation before your employer files. USCIS scrutinizes foreign degree equivalencies closely for managerial roles.
Search Migrate Mate for verified sponsoring employers
Target employers with active green card sponsorship history by searching Migrate Mate, which lists U.S. companies with verified employment-based green card filing records searchable by role and location. Focus on project-intensive industries like construction, infrastructure, defense, and enterprise IT.
Look up prevailing wages before salary negotiations
Your offered salary must meet the DOL prevailing wage for your SOC code and work location. Use the OFLC Wage Search to find the wage level tied to Lead Project Manager duties in your target city before accepting an offer, so you're not surprised during PERM filing.
Ask employers about their PERM recruitment timeline
PERM requires employers to run a full recruitment test before filing, including job ads, referral postings, and documentation that no qualified U.S. workers applied. Understand whether your prospective employer has a process for this or will be starting from scratch.
Track your priority date if you're from India or China
EB-2 and EB-3 both carry per-country limits, and nationals from high-demand countries face substantial backlogs. Once your I-140 is approved, check the monthly USCIS Visa Bulletin to monitor your priority date's movement toward a current status.
Green Card Lead Project Manager: Frequently Asked Questions
What green card category applies to Lead Project Manager roles?
Most Lead Project Manager positions qualify under EB-2 if the role requires an advanced degree or a bachelor's degree plus five years of progressive experience. Roles with a standard bachelor's degree requirement and two or more years of experience may qualify under EB-3. Your employer's PERM filing locks in the category based on the job's minimum requirements, so the job description must be drafted carefully before DOL submission.
How does green card sponsorship differ from H-1B for this role?
Green card sponsorship via PERM leads to lawful permanent residency, not a temporary work status. The process involves a prevailing wage determination, DOL labor certification, and an I-140 immigrant petition before you can file I-485 or pursue consular processing. There's no lottery, but per-country numerical limits mean nationals from high-demand countries can face priority date backlogs. H-1B visa, by contrast, is a temporary nonimmigrant status with its own lottery and renewal cycle.
How do I find employers willing to sponsor a Lead Project Manager for a green card?
Search Migrate Mate to identify U.S. employers with verified employment-based green card sponsorship history filtered by role and location. Focus your outreach on project-driven sectors, including large-scale construction firms, federal contractors, enterprise software integrators, and infrastructure developers, where Lead Project Manager roles are recurring and sponsorship infrastructure is already in place.
Can I change employers after my green card process starts?
AC21 job portability lets you change employers once your I-485 has been pending 180 days or more, provided the new role is in the same or a similar occupational classification. If you change jobs before your I-485 reaches that threshold, your employer must maintain the sponsorship. A previously approved I-140 can support priority date retention with a new employer's separate I-140 filing.
What does the PERM recruitment test require for a project management role?
PERM requires your employer to run a full recruitment test before filing, documenting that the position was advertised to U.S. workers through required channels, including print ads, the state workforce agency, and other recruitment steps defined by DOL. For professional roles like Lead Project Manager, employers must use at least three additional recruitment sources beyond the mandatory postings. All applications must be reviewed and results logged before DOL submission.