Contract Specialist

This Opportunity

As a Contract Specialist , you’ll play a key role in supporting WSP’s newly created North American Contracts Centre of Excellence (COE). You’ll work with talented colleagues across Canada and the United States, contributing to transformative infrastructure, environmental, transportation, property, and energy projects.

This role supports all business sectors and gives you the chance to influence contract strategy at scale while growing your expertise within a global leader.

Your Impact

In this role, you will:

• Review, negotiate, draft, and interpret commercial contracts across multiple business sectors.

• Support project teams throughout the project lifecycle with contract advice and risk assessment.

• Participate in internal and external meetings with business stakeholders and clients.

• Deliver training sessions (e.g., Contracts 101, Lessons Learned, Prompt Payment).

• Review public and private RFPs and support preparation of service offers.

• Ensure compliance with internal authorization matrices, corporate policies, and governance.

• Draft, review, and continuously improve WSP's contract templates, standard clauses, and contracting frameworks, ensuring they reflect best practices and evolving industry standards

• Utilize Contract Lifecycle Management (CLM) systems and AI‑driven tools.

• Contribute to a strategic function that is shaping the future of WSP’s contractual processes across North America.

Who You Are

Required Qualifications

• Bachelors degree or equivalent experience

• 5+ years experience as a Contracts Specialist or Contracts Manager, preferred in engineering or construction

• Background in drafting, reviewing, and negotiating commercial agreements.

• Ability to simplify complex legal concepts for engineers, scientists, and business leaders.

• Strong understanding of business fundamentals and risk management.

• Experience with CLM systems, Microsoft 365 tools, and AI technologies.

• Organized, analytical, detail‑oriented, and comfortable managing competing priorities.

• Ability to thrive in a collaborative, multidisciplinary team environment.

WSP Benefits:

WSP provides a comprehensive suite of benefits focused on a 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): $77,100.00 - $118,400.00

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.

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.