pittsburgh,pa,15201
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Job Description
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This Opportunity
WSP is currently looking for a Vice President, Water / Wastewater Engineering for our Pittsburgh, PA office. This individual will drive growth, deliver excellence, and mentor staff in a collaborative environment with the business line leaders in the Northeast and across the U.S. operations. Our ideal candidate has solid client relationships with Western PA-area utilities and municipalities, understands wastewater market trends, is committed to delivering quality products, and is passionate about building cohesive, best-in-class teams.
WSP is aggressively investing in building our water business, expanding our market share with the mission to serve our clients and communities and leave a legacy of positive impact. You will have the opportunity to help shape our future in the Pittsburgh and Mid-Atlantic markets as well as across our East Region, supported by network of WSP colleagues who share this passion and vision.
Join our best-in-class Water Team and help shape our future.
Envision. Inspire. Transform.
Your Impact
* Provide proactive and strategic leadership for the engineering discipline and function, offering direction, expertise, and support to ensure project and work site deliverables are successfully achieved within the water/wastewater 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 environmental problems and programs.
* Actively foster compliance with applicable Federal, State, and Local 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.
* Schedule engineering discipline meetings, providing updates and recommendations to ensure that all reasonable and proper measures are taken to inculcate discipline expertise and innovation into project work.
* Serve as one of the engineering discipline's lead representatives/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 and inform proposal and 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.
* Develop a client base for providing high level water resources engineering services including identifying additional business development opportunities.
* Mentor staff to support their growth and professional development.
* Manage and provide performance guidance and leadership to assigned 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 / Wastewater or closely related discipline.
* 10+ years of relevant post education experience in water / wastewater engineering with a Western PA focus.
* Pennsylvania engineer license required or ability to obtain one in 6 months.
* Experience with PA permitting agencies
* 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 exits.
* 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 expertise in CSO near surface design and modeling
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