Senior Vice President, Stormwater and Resiliency, Mid-Atlantic Water

WSP Global Inc.; Richmond (VA); On-site; USD 169,000 - 323,000; Full time

Job summary

WSP USA in Richmond, VA is seeking an experienced Senior Water Resources Engineer to lead the Mid-Atlantic Water Group, delivering water resources projects with high quality and regulatory compliance. You will direct Stormwater, Resilience, and Water Quality initiatives, mentor staff, and collaborate across disciplines to provide innovative, future-ready solutions.

The role requires 15+ years in water resources engineering, a Virginia PE license, and strong knowledge of environmental laws and

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Civil or Environmental Engineering with a focus in Water Resources.
• 15+ years of water resources engineering experience.
• Virginia Professional Engineer license (multi-state preferred).
• Strong knowledge of environmental laws, regulations and compliance practices.
• Ability to lead teams, mentor staff, and ensure QA/QC.
• Ability to travel occasionally.

Responsibilities

• Provide proactive leadership for Stormwater, Resilience, and Water Quality in the Mid-Atlantic region.
• Review permits, design plans, and contracts to ensure regulatory compliance.
• Lead large, complex projects with budgets, hours, and subcontractors.
• Meet with public/private entities to discuss stormwater and environmental issues.
• Foster compliance with applicable laws and policies.
• Develop project scopes, timelines and budgets; manage deliverables.
• Mentor staff and guide performance; collaborate across disciplines.

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Civil/Environmental Engineering with a focus in Water Resources

Master’s Degree in Engineering

Job description

This Opportunity

Provides leadership within the Mid-Atlantic Water Group to ensure water resources engineering subject matter, technical deliverables, and programs are delivered with a level of quality that meets or exceeds acceptable industry and company standards. Responsible for SME innovation and administration; ensuring corporate compliance with all Local, State, and Federal environmental and safety regulations; and providing pragmatic direction to address current and future environmental challenges in a rapidly-changing and complex business climate.

Your Impact

• Provide proactive and strategic leadership for Stormwater, Resilience, and Water Quality within the Mid-Atlantic Region (NJ, DE, PA, MD, WV,VA), offering direction, expertise, and support to ensure client deliverables are successfully completed within the business sector.
• Perform engineering review of permit applications, engineering design plans and specifications, standby plans and engineering contracts, integrated waste management plans, and periodic construction inspections, to ensure that they comply with applicable state and/or federal regulations and sound engineering practice and standards.
• Lead larger-scale more complex 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, contract work, and employees.
• Meet with various public or private entities or individuals to discuss issues relating to a variety of stormwater and environmental problems and programs.
• Actively foster compliance with applicable Federal, State, and Local stormwater and environmental laws, policies, and regulatory requirements.
• Ensure that engineering discipline certifications, accreditations, and value proposition is developed and continuously improved.
• Conduct needs analyses and client value surveys to align the engineering discipline’s function with business and project strategy, identifying and addressing any skill gaps or risks within the sector business operations.
• Coordinate Stormwater/Resilience/Water Quality efforts across Mid-Atlantic business lines to encourage collaboration, work share, and innovation into projects and pursuits.
• Serve as Stormwater/Resilience/Water Quality’s representative/liaison to a variety of external entities including Federal, State, and Local Agencies, Clients, Subcontractors, industry-related groups, and various government and community entities.
• Develop project scopes, timelines, pricing, and budgetary metrics – and accountable for planning, development and management of projects in compliance with all applicable City/State/federal codes and regulations, and in accordance with all acceptable engineering practices.
• Interpret and summarize data, including reports and documents that result in sound engineering, engineering, and regulatory conclusions.
• Provide verbal and/or written inputs to multi-disciplinary project teams and contribute to providing high level strategic advice to clients.
• Identify clients and business development opportunities to support strategic growth and support/lead proposal efforts for Stormwater/Resilience/Water Quality pursuits.
• Mentor staff to support their growth and professional development.
• Manage and provide performance guidance and leadership to business sector staff.
• Collaborate 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.
• 15+ years of relevant post education experience in water resources engineering.
• Virginia Professional Engineer license required (multi-state preferred).
• Advanced proficiency with water resources engineering principles, practices, process, design/build, standard of care, and the application to environmental permitting and project work-related issues.
• Strong working knowledge of relevant environmental laws, regulations, compliance practices, and record-keeping requirements, and the business impact upon the organization.
• Advanced proficiency with making technical computations and calculations involving the application of engineering principles, understanding plans and specifications and making factual comparisons to the appropriate regulations.
• Works independently and provides guidance and leadership to mid-level to senior level team or project members, with strict adherence to QA/QC.
• Excellent leadership and interpersonal communication skills with the ability to effectively, persuasively, and tactfully interact with employees at all levels of the organization.
• Tactical lateral thinking and strong analytical skills with attention to detail and prioritization of responsibilities in a pressure work environment.
• Ability to elicit cooperation from a wide variety of sources, including senior management, clients, regulators, and company-wide staff, including those with whom no formal hierarchical relationship exists.
• Advanced proficiency with office automation and communication software, technology, math principles, predictive models, and tools.
• Proven track record of upholding workplace safety and ability to abide by WSP’s health, safety and drug/alcohol and harassment policies.
• Strong ability to quickly adapt to change and demonstrate flexibility to a variety of schedules and hours to meet business needs.
• Occasional travel may be required depending on project-specific requirements.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s Degree in Engineering.
• Strong experience in managing the review and approval of documents and discipline-specific deliverables, certifications, processes, and plans in a multi-project environment is highly desirable.
• Compensation:
  Expected Salary: $168,900- $323,300
• 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.

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