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Job Description
We are looking for an experienced Talent Acquisition Lead to join our team and play a key role in attracting and securing the talent that will support our continued growth.
This is a hands-on recruitment role, partnering closely with business and project leaders to understand their talent needs and deliver high-quality recruitment across a diverse portfolio. You'll manage the full recruitment lifecycle, with particular focus on large-scale project recruitment, specialist and business-critical hiring, and nationalisation priorities.
You'll combine strong recruitment delivery with market insight and trusted stakeholder partnership, creating a positive and inclusive experience for candidates and hiring managers.
Responsibilities
- Manage end-to-end recruitment across assigned business areas, from initial role briefing and sourcing through assessment, offer and mobilisation handover.
- Lead recruitment delivery for large-scale projects, managing high-volume and complex hiring requirements against project mobilisation priorities.
- Partner with business and project leaders to understand workforce plans, capability requirements and critical hiring needs.
- Proactively source and engage senior, specialist and hard-to-find talent through targeted search, market mapping, referrals and relevant recruitment channels.
- Lead and support Talent Acquisition team members, helping to prioritise workloads, strengthen capability and maintain high standards of recruitment delivery.
- Manage candidate screening, interviews, assessment, selection and feedback, ensuring a consistent and positive candidate experience.
- Support nationalisation priorities by proactively identifying, engaging and progressing local talent. Build strong talent pipelines for current vacancies, project mobilisation, proposals and future growth requirements.
- Provide hiring managers with practical market insight on talent availability, salary expectations and recruitment challenges.
- Champion internal mobility, diverse shortlists and fair and inclusive hiring practices.
- Maintain accurate recruitment data and ensure hiring activity is delivered in line with recruitment governance and standards.
- Use recruitment technology, systems and data to improve efficiency, quality and the overall recruitment experience.
- A bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Business Administration or a related discipline.
- Strong Talent Acquisition experience within a complex, fast-paced and multicultural organisation.
- Proven experience managing end-to-end recruitment, with the ability to personally source and deliver across multiple roles and disciplines.
- Experience supporting large-scale project recruitment and mobilisation, including high-volume and specialist hiring.
- Exposure to multidisciplinary consultancy environments, including areas such as Design Management, Project Management, Advisory and Transportation.
- Strong stakeholder management skills, with experience partnering with senior leaders and hiring managers.
- The ability to manage multiple vacancies and priorities while maintaining pace, quality and attention to detail.
- Strong knowledge of regional talent markets and the ability to translate market insight into practical recruitment solutions.
- Experience within engineering, professional services, consulting or another project-led environment would be advantageous.
- A collaborative, inclusive and people-focused approach, with a strong commitment to candidate and hiring manager experience.
Skills
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About Company
We exist to future-proof our cities and environments. As one of the world's leading professional services consulting firms, we plan, advise, design, manage and engineer long lasting solutions that benefit generations to come. With a Future Ready® mindset, we deliver solutions that shape the communities of tomorrow and help societies find ways to thrive sustainably today. We are a growing team of more than 63,000 people; come join us!
Two engineering firms, G.B.G.M. Ltd. and Les Consultants Dupuis Côté, Inc., began operating in Quebec City, Canada in 1959. The two firms merged in 1987 to form Groupe-Conseil Solivar Inc., which acquired two more companies in the early 1990s, thus establishing a multidisciplinary approach. In 1993, geographic expansion began with the acquisition of three Montreal-based firms; the company was renamed GENIVAR.
Between 1993 and 2006, GENIVAR acquired no fewer than 30 firms, extending its operations across the province of Quebec; it also entered the Ontario market. Between 2006 and 2012, over 60 firms came on board as GENIVAR became one of the largest professional services companies in Canada, with offices in all 10 provinces.
In 2012, GENIVAR acquired WSP Group PLC, a multidisciplinary consultancy based in London, UK, leading to the creation of a professional services firm with 15,000 employees in 300 offices worldwide. The company reorganized as WSP Global Inc. and adopted WSP as its brand name.
In the first quarter of 2014, Focus Group Holding Inc. joined the firm, strengthening its presence in the province of Alberta. In 2015, we announced the acquisition of MMM Group, one of the largest privately-owned engineering consulting firms in Canada, as well as the acquisitions of Levelton and SPL Consultants.
In 2021, we completed the acquisition of Golder, a global firm specialized in earth sciences and environmental consulting services, which added approximately 2,000 professionals to our Canadian workforce. In 2022, the acquisition of Wood’s Environment & Infrastructure business added 2,000 experts to our Canadian workforce, furthering our leadership and capabilities by boosting our presence in British Columbia, Alberta, and the Atlantic provinces.
In the US, the firm’s origins date back to 1885, when William Barclay Parsons founded the company that would go on to become Parsons Brinckerhoff, based in New York City. Early projects included designing the original New York City subway system and the Cape Cod Canal. Chas H. Sells, Inc. was founded in New York in 1925 and was acquired by WSP in 2007, becoming the firm’s transportation and infrastructure engineering group in the US.
WSP entered the US market in 2000 through the acquisitions of Cantor Seinuk, a structural engineering firm established in 1953, and Flack + Kurtz, a mechanical, electrical and plumbing engineering business founded in 1969. Environment & Energy, an environmental and energy consulting business established in 1986, became part of the firm in 2006.
The international expansion of GENIVAR (rebranded as WSP in 2014) began with the opening of a Caribbean office in Trinidad and Tobago in 2004, followed by Colombia in 2011. In 2012, WSP strengthened its presence in Colombia through the acquisition of Consultores Regionales Asociados CRA S.A.S. In 2014, the firm acquired Dessau CEI S.A.S., also in Colombia. 2016 brought the acquisition of Schlumberger’s industrial water consultancy business, enabling WSP to provide related services while establishing a foothold in Chile and Peru. CRC Engineering P.C. (USA) and DITEC (Mexico) were also acquired that year. In 2017, WSP acquired three more companies in the US and two in Latin America.
In 2018, the acquisition of Louis Berger, a US-based international professional services firm, added 5,000 employees to WSP’s workforce. In 2019, WSP acquired Ecology & Environment, a US-based environmental consulting firm. In 2020, we continued to strengthen our expertise and expand our presence in the US through the acquisitions of LT Environmental, an environmental consulting firm, and kW Mission Critical Engineering, which added best-in-class mission critical engineering services to our US building capabilities.
The Golder acquisition in 2021 added approximately 1,700 employees to our workforce in the US and 1,200 in Latin America and the Caribbean. Additional acquisitions in 2021 (tk1sc, EarthCon, Knight and Englekirk) reinforced our market-leading position and our geographic presence in the US. In 2022, the acquisition of Wood’s Environment & Infrastructure business added 220 experts in Latin America and almost doubled the size of our US Earth and Environment team to 5,900.
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