Technical Executive – Civil

Overview

As Technical Executive for WSP’s Mining & Metals group, you will provide technical leadership, governance, and strategic direction across a multidisciplinary engineering team. You’ll steward engineering excellence, shaping standards, processes, and delivery frameworks to ensure high-quality, safe projects. You will lead and develop engineers, foster collaboration, and champion innovation across the network. You’ll engage with clients and industry stakeholders to drive growth and deliver impactful mining solutions. This is a growth-focused role at a global firm that values expertise, mentorship, and continuous improvement.

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor a high-performing engineering team and drive succession planning
• Establish and maintain frameworks, standards, and processes promoting technical excellence
• Provide technical guidance, reviews, and quality assurance across projects
• Drive innovation, reusable templates, and delivery methodologies
• Support business development, proposals, and strategic pursuits
• Manage client relationships and represent WSP in industry networks
• Ensure safe, efficient, and high-quality project execution
• Identify and mitigate delivery risks across multiple projects
• Foster knowledge sharing within the wider WSP network
• Champion health, safety, wellbeing, and employee engagement across the team

Key requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering
• Chartered Professional Engineer status (CPEng) or equivalent, or eligibility to obtain chartership
• Approximately 18+ years’ experience in mining, resources, infrastructure, or heavy industry
• Experience leading engineering teams and technical disciplines
• Strong consulting, client engagement, and stakeholder management skills
• Proven experience in project delivery, risk management, quality assurance, and engineering governance
• Strategic thinking with track record of growth and continuous improvement
• Excellent communication, coaching, and leadership skills

• leadership
• communication
• stakeholder management
• technical leadership and governance
• engineering standards and quality processes
• risk management and quality assurance

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