Energy Manager jobs in Salt Lake City, UT

This Opportunity

WSP is currently initiating a search for a Vice President, Project & Program Management for our Salt Lake City, Utah, office to be involved in projects with our Energy Sector Team. Be a part of a growing organization that meets our client’s energy and decarbonization challenges. 
 

Your Impact

The successful candidate should expect to manage projects across a wide variety of project supporting the Energy Transition underway in the United States, including but not limited to:
Transmission, Distribution, and Substation design and implementation across the western U.S.

• Solar and wind renewables design and implementation across the western US.
• Electrification sites for public and fleet charging, transit agencies, electrified trucking, shorepower, mining, and other industrial electrification. 
• Emerging project areas such as hydrogen development.

Clients

• Sets clients at the center for all we do, helping them be “Future Ready” through sustainable planning and design, and prepared for emerging market disrupters.
• Brings an expanded view and integrated response to complex challenges by leveraging our full suite of offerings across all end markets.
• Utilizes our extended reach across regions, districts, offices and the globe to foster new and innovative client delivery.
• Deploys our unique expertise and perspective to create new value for clients and provides civic and industry leadership within the district.
• Manages client coordination and cross-selling efforts across all business lines in coordination with Region, District, National Business Lines, Strategic Growth Team and Pursuit Management.
• Pulls together the best teams to maximize productivity including bringing in technical expertise as applicable to best solve client challenges.

People & Culture

• Attracts the best industry talent by fostering a work environment that is collaborative, values inclusion and diversity and invites broad, creative thinking – crafting a more attractive place to work, grow and thrive.
• Emphasizes employee training and development to create a unique work experience.
• Participates in strategic recruitment, promotional programs and performance management focused on the employee experience, wellness and safety. 
• Inspires, motivates and promotes the best of WSP to our clients and communities to ensure strong employee engagement and morale.
• Supports programs such as Safety, Sustainability and Ethics & Compliance.

Operational Excellence

• Develops district growth, forecast and business development strategy in collaboration with Region Business Line Leaders and National Business Lines.
• Prioritizes investments to enhance WSP’s ability to deliver high quality, sustainable projects for clients bringing the best tools and practices available to market.
• Optimizes the client and employee experience through regular review and implements process improvements and automation.
• Focuses on innovation and enhancing health & safety, quality and sustainable standards.
• Assembles the best teams to maximize productivity including bringing in technical expertise as applicable to best solve client challenges.

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.
 

Who You Are

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in a related discipline.
• 12 years of related professional experience.
• Strong client and project delivery experience in the Energy sector, with an understanding other market sectors within the A/E/C industry.
• Experience building business through external client engagement and internal sales management processes.
• Experience with budget management and an enterprise business aptitude.
• Demonstrated experience of leadership, personal accountability, persistence and being goal-oriented.
• Ability to innovate and re-think the conventional approach to client and employee engagement.
• Experience with change management with a strong business acumen and an aptitude for improving processes.
• Experience with key performance indicators including EBITDA, Organic Growth, Days Sales Outstanding, Utilization, Backlog, promoting Inclusion & Diversity initiatives. 
• Commitment to internal and external client service. 
• Strong communication skills, collaborative, and drive consensus.
• Motivational with a staff development mindset and excellent leadership/managerial and mentoring/teaching skills.
• Highly organized, detail oriented, and skilled with implementation/logistics.
• Proven track record of upholding workplace safety and ability to abide by WSP’s health, safety and drug/alcohol and harassment policies. 
• This role may be subject to a client-mandated drug/alcohol testing policy. As such, employee may be subject to random drug/alcohol tests. 

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