Job Description

This Opportunity

WSP USA, Inc. is seeking a Carolinas Water Resources Practice Lead to accelerate our growth and advance our performance in water resources across North Carolina and South Carolina. This role provides leadership for a multi-office Water Resources team across North and South Carolina, supporting municipal, agency, and private-sector clients on complex flood resilience, stormwater, and coastal projects. Our Water Resources practice area encompasses drainage and stormwater management, green infrastructure design and stormwater management, coastal and fluvial resiliency, stormwater conveyance, and site civil design.

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 for municipalities, agencies, developers and institutions in the Carolinas. 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 Carolinas water resources practice area.
• Build and maintain a healthy, high-quality 4:1 pipeline that reflects deliberate client targeting, strong positioning, and efficient use of pursuit resources.
• 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.
• Bachelor's degree in civil engineering or related field.
• 15 years of post-education experience in water resources engineering, with at least 10 years of related experience in the Carolinas.
• Professional Engineering License (PE) in North Carolina or South Carolina.
• 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 WSP's health, safety and drug/alcohol and harassment policies.
• Travel within the Carolinas region, with potential for travel beyond region.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's degree in engineering or business management.
• Professional Engineering License (PE) in multi-states.

At WSP USA, Inc. we are dedicated to building a diverse and inclusive workplace for our employees. If you are excited about this role, but your experience may not align perfectly with every qualification in the position description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may just be the right candidate for this or other opportunities.

At this time, WSP USA, Inc., will not sponsor a new applicant for work authorization.

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