Northeast Water and Wastewater Lead

This Opportunity WSP USA, Inc. is seeking a Northeast Water and Wastewater Lead to accelerate our growth and advance our performance in drinking water and wastewater across the Northeast. You will set the tone for culture, drive operational excellence, expand strategic client relationships, and serve as a visible water leader in our industry. In this role, you will be part of the delivery of transformational projects, from the Metropolitan Water Tunnel for MWRA to PFSA treatment projects in New York. You will have the opportunity to make an impact on our team and on the clients and communities we serve. Your Impact People & Culture + Champion a positive, inclusive, high-performance, and low-ego workplace culture. + Mentor and develop talent, lead hiring plans, and succession strategies to strengthen the bench. + Grow cross-office workshare and collaboration as we move to a practice-based organizational structure that mobilizes the best talent in our organization to our local clients. + Foster employee engagement, diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives. Operational Excellence + Deliver budgeted year over year organic growth within the Practice Area. + Achieve margin and project performance targets through proactive risk management, disciplined delivery, and consistent QA/QC across multi-disciplinary teams. + Optimize resource planning across offices. Strategic Growth & Business Development + Craft and implement targeted market growth strategies, aligned with our regional and global water growth strategy. + Strengthen strategic accounts and drive exceptional client care within the northeast water/wastewater practice area. + Build and maintain a 4:1 pipeline (qualified pursuits to bookings) that aligns with the business plan. + Provide end-to-end pursuit leadership for key opportunities: own capture plans, positioning, and win strategies. + Provide go/no go decision making for practice area opportunities to align investment of business development dollars with growth strategy. Who You Are Required Qualifications + Demonstrated ability to lead diverse teams and inspire cross-functional collaboration. + Bacheloru2019s degree in civil, environmental, or chemical engineering or related field. + 15 years of post-education experience in water/wastewater engineering, with at least 10 years of related experience in New England. + Professional Engineering License (PE) in Massachusetts, New York, Connecticut, or Rhode Island. + Candidate must have strong technical writing and communication skills. + Advanced proficiency with engineering principles, practices, process, design/build, standard of care and project work-related issues. + Excellent leadership and interpersonal communication skills with the ability to effectively interact with employees at all levels of the organization. + Proven history of upholding workplace safety and ability to abide by WSPu2019s health, safety and drug/alcohol and harassment policies. + Travel within the Northeast region, with potential for travel beyond region. Preferred Qualifications + Design-build or other alternative project delivery experience. + Masteru2019s degree in engineering or business management. + Professional Engineering License (PE) in multi-states. Compensation: Expected Salary: $139,800 - $249,150 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 applicantu2019s 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 applicantu2019s sex or other status protected by local, state, and/or federal law. #LI-MF1 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. 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 employeeu2019s 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 u2013 no fee or other compensation will be owed or paid to the recruiter, employment agency, or other staffing service.

Created: 2025-12-17