This Opportunity

WSP is growing and we have an exciting career opportunity for a Lead Water Sourcing professional with at least 10 years of relevant experience to support our Environmental Business Line in Texas or Baton Rouge, LA; preferred locations Houston, Austin or Dallas. We are seeking a candidate who is excited and motivated about the opportunity to help expand our environmental consulting business.

Are you looking for an opportunity to work with an established engineering consulting firm that values its employee’s enthusiasm and technical contributions? We encourage you to apply for this opportunity. We are dedicated to providing the atmosphere to allow individuals to grow their career. We offer a varied and interesting diversity of clients and projects. We’d love you to join our team of friendly, hard-working, dedicated and collaborative professionals. Our ideal candidate is seeking challenging work and is committed to quality.

Your Impact

• Successful delivery of reliable and sustainable water sourcing solutions to industrial and energy clients for proposed and existing operations in a challenging environment and changing regulatory landscape.

• Deliver Major Water Utility Master Planning in the following areas:

• Infrastructure Design

• Regional water planning agency interface

• Land use planning inputs

• Population projection inputs

• Utility extension practices

• Evaluation of water quality needs for proposed operations

• 30 year forward infrastructure planning

• New connections negotiating practices for dollar or facilities contributions

• Connection and user fee practices

• Engineering economics

• Both surface and groundwater sourcing experience

• Collaborate with clients to develop and implement criteria for ranking various water sourcing solutions.

• Lead water sourcing engineering projects ensuring contributors know what they are required to do and by when, preparing and overseeing relevant project budgets, monitoring external events, tracking hours and expenses, ensuring satisfactory performance, and supervising subcontractors as needed and employees.

• Meet with various public or private entities or individuals to discuss information relating to a water sourcing alternatives, regulatory requirements and community perceptions and impacts.

• Ensure technical reports and presentations explain research, findings, and recommendations to identify and provide a qualitative and quantitative analyses for various sources of water to support industrial operations.

• Develop a client base for providing high level water sourcing engineering services including identifying additional business development opportunities.

• Mentor staff to support their growth and professional development.

• Remain current in latest water sourcing technical, regulatory and political implications for TX and LA.

• Collaborates with professionals from a variety of disciplines to provide future ready solutions for clients.

• 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.

• Perform additional responsibilities as required by business needs.

Who You Are

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Civil or Environmental Engineering, with a focus in Water Resources or closely related discipline.

• 10+ years of relevant post education experience in water resources engineering.

• Engineer license required (multi-state preferred).

• Infrastructure design experience that includes planning, design, construction and operation

• Knowledgeable of various regulatory programs impacting water resources and sourcing efforts in TX and LA.

• Highly proficient with water resources/sourcing engineering principles, practices, and methods and their application to environmental and project work-related issues.

• Highly proficient with making technical computations and calculations involving the application of engineering principles, understanding plans and specifications and making factual comparisons to the appropriate regulations.

• Highly effective interpersonal and communication skills when interacting with others, expressing intricate ideas effectively and professionally to an engineering and non-engineering audience.

• Strong self-leadership and interpersonal communication skills with the ability to effectively, persuasively, and tactfully interact with clients, regulators, project managers, and employees at all levels of the organization.

• Works independently to provide guidance and leadership to mid-level to senior level team or project members, with strict adherence to QA/QC.

• Proficiency with technical writing, office automation and communication software, technology, math principles, predictive models, and tools.

• Experienced with providing critical review for documents and preparing technical deliverables and plans with a high degree of complexity.

• Well-developed critical thinking and problem-solving skills required to apply technical knowledge to reach conclusions from testing results, data collation, statistical analysis, and economical and regulatory analyses in order to assist clients in reaching the most effective, economical, and logical solution for their water sourcing needs.

• Must be flexible to a variety of schedules to meet business needs and able to prioritize responsibilities and quickly adapt to change in a pressure work environment.

• Occasional travel may be required depending on project-specific requirements.

Preferred Qualifications

• Member of Professional Associations such as the American Society of Civil Engineers, American Water Works Association or the Water Environment Federation

• Master’s Degree in Engineering.

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.

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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.