Associate - Pipeline Design (Water & Wastewater)

WSP in India; Dadri; On-site; INR 900,000 - 1,500,000; Full time

Job summary

WSP in India is seeking a Principal Engineer to lead stormwater design and reviewer roles for drainage projects across India and New Zealand. You will guide technical delivery, mentor juniors, and collaborate with design engineers to ensure high-quality outcomes.

The role involves acting as a technical lead with strong emphasis on coaching, client communication, and adherence to IMS standards, while expanding WSP’s reach in the region.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering; Master’s preferred.
• Chartered Engineer status or equivalent.
• Minimum 15 years in stormwater engineering with 4+ years leading projects.
• Experience with Civil 3D as a stormwater design tool.
• NZ/Australia/UK project exposure preferred.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical delivery of stormwater, revetment and drainage projects and provide technical inputs from concept through construction.
• Produce analyses and reports suitable for client presentations and reviews.
• Coach and mentor junior staff and review others' work for quality and consistency.
• Coordinate with design engineers across India and New Zealand; report to Head of Department.
• Prepare models, designs, calculations, specs, and drawings for NZS 3910/3916 documentation.
• Ensure project quality processes, timely reviews, and risk management.

Skills

Stormwater design

Project leadership

Mentoring

Technical review

Coaching

Communication

Team collaboration

Education

Bachelors in Civil Engineering

Masters in Water Resource Engineering

Chartered Engineer

Tools

Civil 3D

12d

MS Office

Job description

Job Description

The suitable candidate for this role is an emerging technical leader in Stormwater Design. As a Principal Engineer, you will be the stormwater technical lead or reviewer for stormwater designs and road drainage projects. You will effectively lead the technical delivery, whilst delegating and upskilling junior members of the team. The role involves coordination with design engineers and peergroups across India and New Zealand while reporting to the Head of Department in India. The ideal candidate would provide coaching to junior members on projects, as well as act as a mentor to wider team members.

Responsibilities

• Leads the technical delivery of a variety of stormwater, revetment and drainage engineering projects and provide technical inputs to support design from concept through to consenting and construction for medium to large, complex and multi-disciplinary projects in accordance with our Integrated Management System (IMS). Work alongside project managers and junior team members to ensure efficient delivery. Delivers through teams, not individually.
• Produces research, feasibility studies, analysis and subsequent reporting suitable for client presentation to a high-level of grammatical and technical presentation.
• Has a technically strong knowledge of stormwater reticulation, drainage and revetment engineering, including strategy, investigation, and related advisory work in the field of stormwater, revetment and drainage engineering and is able to successfully supervise others in these fields.
• Able to work without supervision, direct others and ensures their work is verified by an appropriate professional.
• Produces and review models, designs, calculations, contract documentations, specifications, schedules, construction estimates and drawings suitable for the preparation of NZS 3910 and NZS 3916 contract documentation. With a particular focus on stormwater and revetment engineering.
• Supports, coaches and mentors stormwater professionals and team members.
• Ensures project related quality processes are carried out (technical reviews, verification, approval to release etc.) in a timely and cost-effectively manner.
• Provides regular feedback to team members in a constructive and timely manner.
• Prepares reports and other documents associated with stormwater, revetment and drainage engineering and associated services to a high level of grammatical and technical presentation.
• Completes tasks within allocated timeframes and budgeted hours.
• Ensures all technical risks are understood, managed, assigned to the organisation best placed to manage the risk, and these are well communicated with the project team, and/or client.
• Solves problems effectively by engaging sound problem solving techniques and appropriate analysis.
• Maintains knowledge of appropriate technical standards, legislation, codes of practice and New Zealand standards; Is knowledgeable on industry developments, trends, and processes.
• Applies sound judgement to decisions about technical issues and solves problems for clients to get the best possible outcome for a project.
• Undertakes appropriate verification of projects and team members’ work.
• Considering risks to client’s business or reputation as part of the planning and management of projects.
• Delivering excellent service to clients to promote repeat and uncompetitive work.
• Develops and maintains an extensive network of industry contacts in India and NZ (as a minimum) and is readily able to access key people.
• Builds and maintains strong, trusted relationships with clients.
• Actively seeks feedback from clients and communicates this to the team to ensure successful delivery of projects and lessons learnt.
• Ensure projects and variations are scoped and priced in a manner that will ensure commercial success and that respond to the specific risk profile of the project.
• Writes and supports bids that are commercially astute, recognises and manages commercial risks while demonstrating value to the client.
• Hold focused meetings that achieve appropriate outcomes at key times; Deliver engaging, informative well-organised presentations; Create opportunities to share learnings, improvements, new tools, better practices with the wider water team.
• Liaise and work closely with Sector leadership and peer groups across India and New Zealand; Act as a brand ambassador of GCC within WSP in India across geographies.

Required Skills and Behaviours

• Fluent in spoken and written English and able to present ideas, complex technical information and advice in a way that is understandable to a wide range of audiences; Communicate difficult/sensitive information tactfully.
• Able to work effectively and competently with people at all levels; within and external to the organisation. Ability to work collaboratively and demonstrated capability to perform effectively as part of a team across a matrix type structure.
• Models WSP Guiding Principles.
• Strong organisational ability to optimise and prioritise conflicting demands in a busy environment, to achieve deadlines and see responsibilities through to completion; copes well under conflicting pressures.
• Commercial and a level of maturity needed to understand business needs and drivers.
• Projects a credible image and inspires confidence; Excellent interpersonal skills.
• Able to manage others and support them through stressful or challenging situations.
• Results orientated, with a reputation for, and demonstrated achievement of, key strategic priorities.
• Active commitment to continuous personal improvement.
• A team player and considers the views of others.
• Ensures that confidentiality is respected and maintained at all times.
• Consistently demonstrates trustworthiness, integrity, professionalism and honesty.
• Natural and confident leader displaying openness, accountability, decisiveness and engagement; Client centric and passionate about service excellence.
• Displays drive, energy and enthusiasm for getting things done with high levels of motivation and energy; Project credibility demonstrate professionalism and inspire confidence with high emotional intelligence and self-awareness of strengths and potential areas for development.
• Excellent analytical skills and strong attention to detail.
• Resilient, comfortable with change and ambiguity.

Software Proficiencies

• Must be highly proficient in Civil 3D as a stormwater design tool (basins, channels, drainage etc), including earthworks modelling.
• Experience using 12d for design purposes is beneficial, but not essential.
• Proficient use of Windows, MS Word/Excel and other Microsoft Office applications.

Qualifications

• Bachelors Degree in Civil Engineering (followed by a Masters in Water Resource Engineering or Environmental Engineering or similar preferred)
• Professional Registration (Chartered Engineer status or equivalent).

Experience

• Minimum of 15 years’ experience post qualification in stormwater engineering and design, including at least 4 years' experience leading stormwater projects from concept design to construction, reviewing work of others and coaching junior staff within projects.
• Must have at least 6 years’ experience using Civil 3D as a stormwater design tool (eg basins, channels, drainage etc) and must have extensive use within the last 12 months.
• Experienced and competent in earthworks modelling using Civil 3D.
• Past experience in NZ, Australian or UK projects is preferred but not essential.

Background Verification (BGV)

• Employment with WSP India is subject to the successful completion of a background verification ("BGV") check conducted by a third-party agency appointed by WSP India.
• Candidates are advised to ensure that all information provided during the recruitment process — including documents uploaded — is accurate and complete, both to WSP India and its BGV partner.