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WSP

Plans and designs infrastructure projects

Technical Manager - Construction Interface

Architecture & Civil EngineeringConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeOttawa, ON, Canada$159.9k - $234.4kIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

  • At least 15 years of senior technical leadership experience on large, complex, multi-stakeholder programs.
  • Ability to lead interface management between design teams, construction managers, and clients.
  • Experience navigating senior-level construction-management and assistant-deputy-minister-level technical forums with credibility.
  • Skill in resolving multidisciplinary technical issues under pressure.
  • Ability to balance constructability, sequencing, safety, quality, contractual obligations, and downstream impacts.
  • A valid Secret security clearance issued by the Government of Canada.

Responsibilities

  • Act as the day-to-day senior technical counterpart to the Centrus Design Manager and Project Manager.
  • Collaborate with the construction manager’s MEC Manager and design-assist partners to ensure constructability alignment.
  • Represent WSP’s integrated technical position in construction-manager and client forums, ensuring clarity, decisiveness, and alignment.
  • Lead high-stakes meetings, enabling the Program Director to focus on governance and client relationships.
  • Resolve construction-manager comments, requests for information, sequencing issues, access and maintenance needs, and constructability challenges.
  • Ensure smooth transition of design package delivery into construction-administration support.
  • Prevent technical issues from escalating into claims, delays, or reputational risk.
  • Serve as senior integrator across all disciplines, packages, and phases within the CENTRUS program.
  • Maintain issue registers, interface logs, and decision records, and ensure all technical positions are coordinated and defensible.
  • Lead technical discussions, de-escalate contentious situations, and present structured recommendations to senior leadership.
  • Identify and elevate program-level risks while aligning mitigation actions with commercial and program strategy.

Desired Qualifications

  • A Professional Engineer (P.Eng.) or Architect credential is preferred; construction-based certifications are an asset.

About the Company

WSP

Plans and designs infrastructure projects

WSP is an engineering and science consultancy that helps governments and businesses plan, design, and manage infrastructure. Its teams work on transport networks, buildings, water systems, power facilities, and environmental projects, combining engineers with scientists, planners, and technical advisers. Services include feasibility studies, detailed design, environmental assessments, and project management, with specialists supporting assets through construction and operation. Clients pay through contracts priced by staff time, agreed project fees, or a share of project costs. Genivar reorganized as WSP Global in 2014, and the group is headquartered in Montreal, Quebec.

Company size
10,001+
Company stage
IPO
Headquarters
Montreal, Canada
Founded
1959

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