Lead Consultant, Water

This Opportunity

WSP is currently initiating a search for a Lead Consultant, Water for our Mountain Pacific District. This position will be located out of our Portland, OR office. WSP USA Operates with a Hybrid-Workplace Model. Be involved in projects with our Mountain Pacific Water Team and be a part of a growing organization that meets our client''s objectives and solves their challenges.

Your primary role will be to serve as a technical leader for drinking water clients across Oregon and the Pacific Northwest. You will lead planning, design, and delivery of water treatment, storage, transmission, distribution, and capital improvement projects, helping clients address aging infrastructure, regulatory requirements, system resilience, and future growth. Working closely with multidisciplinary teams across WSP, you will provide technical leadership, manage project delivery, support business development efforts, and help develop the next generation of water professionals.

The position includes significant client-facing responsibilities and requires the ability to build trusted relationships, lead technical discussions, and support business development efforts. The successful candidate will also play an important role in developing our people through technical mentorship, career coaching, knowledge sharing, and support of project managers and engineers at various stages of their professional growth.

As a key member of our growing water practice, you will also support business development activities, identify opportunities with existing and prospective clients, contribute to strategic account planning, and support pursuit activities including proposals and interviews. Your leadership will help grow our drinking water practice and shape the future of our team.

Your Impact

• Perform project management and professional engineering relating to complex drinking water infrastructure projects, including treatment, transmission, storage, pumping, distribution, and system planning.
• Serve as a technical lead and subject matter expert for drinking water projects, providing guidance and oversight throughout planning, design, permitting, and construction support efforts.
• Oversee and monitor multidisciplinary project teams and specialty subconsultants to execute projects while managing scope, schedule, budget, quality, and risk.
• Coordinate, review, and approve engineering reports, technical memoranda, plans, specifications, and design calculations, ensuring compliance with applicable regulations, codes, and standards.
• Collaborate with professionals from a variety of disciplines to develop future-ready water infrastructure solutions for clients.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with municipal, utility, and industrial water clients, serving as a trusted advisor and helping identify opportunities for continued partnership.
• Support business development efforts through client engagement, strategic account planning, proposal development, scope and fee development, and participation in project interviews.
• Mentor and develop engineers and project managers through technical guidance, career development support, and professional coaching.
• Stay current on emerging drinking water regulations, treatment technologies, resilience strategies, and industry best practices through active participation in professional organizations and industry events.
• 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.
• 7 to 10 years of relevant post education experience in water resources engineering.
• Professional Engineer (PE) license required.
• Proficient knowledge of water resource engineering principles, practices, process.
• Demonstrated experience leading multidisciplinary drinking water infrastructure projects. Proficient ability to coordinate with agency regulators and understand requirements.
• Well-developed ability to make 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 ideas effectively and professionally to an engineering and non-engineering audience.
• Demonstrated high-level of self-leadership with attention to detail, multi-tasking, and prioritization of responsibilities in a dynamic work environment.
• Works independently with minimal oversight and provides guidance and leadership to junior team or project members, with strict adherence to QA/QC.
• Highly proficient with technical writing, office automation, software, technology, math principles, predictive models, spreadsheets, and tools.
• Adept at coordinating technical matters with public and private groups.
• Well-developed critical thinking and problem-solving skills required to apply technical knowledge to reach conclusions.
• Demonstrated effectiveness at coordinating and assertively directing subcontractors and others to consistently complete tasks safely and efficiently.
• Proven track record of upholding workplace safety and ability to abide by WSP's health, safety and drug/alcohol and harassment policies.
• Occasional travel may be required depending on project-specific requirements.
• Experience with drinking water treatment, storage facilities, pump stations, transmission mains, and distribution systems.
• Established relationships with municipal water clients in Oregon and the Pacific Northwest.
• Experience leading proposals, interviews, and business development efforts.

Preferred Qualifications

• Active involvement in AWWA or similar professional organizations.

WSP Benefits:

WSP provides a comprehensive suite of benefits focused on 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): $107,600 - $159,800

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.

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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.