Senior planner / public engagement specialist

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The Opportunity

Build the Future With Us

Bring together planning expertise and meaningful public engagement to help communities, governments, and organizations navigate complex decisions and shape better outcomes.

As a Senior Planner / Public Engagement Specialist, you will provide senior planning expertise while leading engagement, consultation, and facilitation on projects spanning infrastructure, environment, climate resilience, policy, community development, and strategic planning.

You will work with multidisciplinary teams, connecting planning principles, technical considerations, and community perspectives to support thoughtful, practical, and defensible decision-making. Your planning background will enable you to understand and contribute to the broader project context, while your engagement expertise will help ensure communities and stakeholders are meaningfully involved throughout the process.

Your Impact

• Lead integrated planning and engagement assignments, bringing together technical information, planning considerations, and community perspectives to support informed decision-making.
• Provide senior planning expertise on projects involving community development, infrastructure, environment, climate resilience, policy, and strategic planning.
• Design and deliver inclusive engagement and consultation programs for complex, multi-stakeholder projects, applying recognized engagement principles and practices.
• Facilitate workshops, meetings, and collaborative processes with communities, clients, stakeholders, Indigenous organizations, governments, and multidisciplinary project teams.
• Translate complex planning, policy, and technical information into clear and accessible materials and conversations that enable meaningful participation.
• Integrate engagement findings into planning processes, strategies, recommendations, and project outcomes, helping teams understand how community and stakeholder input informs decisions.
• Advise and mentor project teams on planning and engagement approaches, contributing to thoughtful, consistent, and defensible project delivery.
• Contribute to proposals, client relationships, and the continued growth and development of integrated planning and engagement services.

The Skills That Set You Apart

• Significant professional planning experience combined with demonstrated expertise in public engagement and facilitation, including experience working on complex, multidisciplinary projects.
• A degree in planning, urban or regional planning, geography, environmental studies, public policy, or a related discipline.
• Registered Professional Planner (RPP) designation is required.
• Demonstrated experience contributing to or leading planning processes, such as community, municipal, regional, policy, infrastructure, environmental, or strategic planning initiatives.
• Strong experience designing and facilitating engagement and consultation processes involving diverse communities, stakeholders, clients, Indigenous organizations, and governments.
• Knowledge of IAP2 principles and practices and experience applying them to engagement programs; IAP2 training or certification is considered an asset.
• Experience working in complex, multidisciplinary environments, with the ability to connect planning objectives, technical information, policy considerations, and stakeholder perspectives.
• Strong facilitation, communication, and advisory capabilities, including the ability to prepare clear engagement materials, planning-related deliverables, recommendations, and reports.

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: $122,900 - $162,800
MB & ON: $112,100 - $154,400
NB, NL, NS, PE & QC: $111,000 - $147,400

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.

Ready to Shape the Future?

Bring your planning expertise and passion for meaningful engagement to work that helps shape communities and influence decisions that matter.

As a Senior Planner / Public Engagement Specialist, you will have the opportunity to work alongside planners, advisors, scientists, engineers, and engagement professionals, helping clients navigate complex issues, create meaningful dialogue, and develop solutions grounded in both sound planning and the perspectives of the people they affect.

If you are an experienced planning professional who believes meaningful engagement is fundamental to successful projects, we’d love to hear from you.

Apply today and help shape communities to advance humanity, together with WSP.

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 professional services 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 https://www.wsp.com/en-ca/corporate/ca/health-safety.

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 https://www.wsp.com/en-ca/careers/notice-to-staffing-agencies.