Senior Security Consultant, Buildings

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The Opportunity

Build the Future with Us

Join a team that helps clients create safer, smarter, and more resilient environments. As a Senior Security Consultant, you'll lead complex security projects, guide multidisciplinary teams, and help shape innovative physical security solutions from concept through implementation. You'll combine technical expertise, client leadership, and business development skills to deliver impactful outcomes across a diverse portfolio of projects.

Your Impact

• Lead and mentor security consulting teams, guiding the design and delivery of integrated security systems including video surveillance, access control, intrusion detection, duress, real-time locating, and networked security technologies.
• Drive security projects from initial planning through closeout, delivering studies, concept designs, detailed designs, tender support, construction administration, and project management services.
• Conduct physical security audits, assessments, and evaluations to help clients identify risks and improve security resilience.
• Develop high-quality technical reports, specifications, proposals, presentations, and client deliverables that support successful project outcomes.
• Build trusted client relationships and contribute to business growth by identifying opportunities, supporting pursuits, and preparing winning proposals.
• Facilitate workshops, stakeholder engagements, and presentations that support project success and strengthen client partnerships.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to deliver innovative and practical security solutions that create lasting value for clients and communities.
• Champion a culture of health, safety, and wellbeing by ensuring all work is performed in accordance with WSP policies and procedures.

The Skills That Set You Apart

• 7+ years of experience in security consulting or a related field with transferable expertise.
• Current BC Security Consultant Licence is required.
• Demonstrated success managing large and complex security consulting projects.
• Proven experience supporting business development initiatives, including proposal and bid preparation.
• Strong understanding of project financial management, contracts, commercial requirements, and project delivery practices.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a Public Works and Government Services Canada Level 2 Security Clearance and work within secure environments.
• Experience conducting Threat Risk Assessments (TRAs), physical security assessments, or security risk evaluations is considered an asset.
• Professional credentials such as ASIS CPP or PSP, and familiarity with alternative delivery models (Alliance, DBFM, Design-Build, etc.) are considered strong assets.
• Willingness to travel as required for project assignments and possession of a valid driver's licence.

Why Choose WSP?

Why Choose WSP? We exist to shape communities to advance humanity. The brightest engineers, advisors and scientists from across the globe call WSP home.

• Proudly Canadian – we are a Top 100 Employer in Canada for 2026.
• A global community of brilliant minds – your next idea, mentor, or opportunity is always within reach.
• Limitless opportunities start here. Whether it’s across the country or around the globe, we help you tailor your role to match your ambition — because your growth drives ours.
• Flexible work, real balance – we recognize the importance of balance in our lives and encourage you to prioritize the balance in yours.

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Compensation:
AB, BC, NT, NU, SK & YT: $104,100 to $138,000
MB & ON: $95,000 to $130,800
NB, NL, NS, PE & QC: $94,100 to $124,900

Disclosure:
The final salary awarded for this role may vary from the above range based on several factors including, but not limited to, relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, seniority, geographic location, performance, and business or organizational needs. The wage range provided in this job posting may be subject to change for business purposes.

At WSP, we exist to shape communities to advance humanity.

It’s why we bring people together who are wired to solve complex challenges—engineers, scientists, advisors, and technical experts who are driven by a common passion—to redefine what’s possible and shape what comes next. We are Visioneers.

As one of the world’s leading engineering, science and infrastructure solutions firms, we partner with clients across transportation, infrastructure, environment, buildings, energy, water, mining and metals. We pair deep local knowledge with global insights to pioneer solutions designed to leave a lasting, positive impact.

At WSP, you’ll join a community of brilliant minds that push boundaries every day - applying deep expertise and fuelling innovation to help create a more connected and resilient future. Here, your ideas are valued, your growth is supported, and you are encouraged to bring your authentic self to work. We empower our people to collaborate across disciplines, challenge the status quo, and shape a career with purpose.

Join us.

Please Note:

Health and Safety is a core paramount value of WSP. Given the importance of keeping one another safe it is expected that you comply with our Health, Safety & Environment (HSE) policy at all times as well as client HSE policies when working at client locations. Full details here.

Some safety-sensitive positions involve fieldwork and may include work in a variety of environmental conditions, such as remote or isolated areas, working alone, and in inclement weather (within safe and reasonable limits).

WSP welcomes and encourages applications from people with disabilities. Accommodations are available on request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process.

WSP is committed to the principles of employment equity. Only the candidates selected will be contacted.

WSP does not accept unsolicited resumes from agencies. Full details here.