WSP

Senior Technical Manager - Drainage and Stormwater

WSP$143K — $193K *
Real Estate & Construction
8 - 10 years of experience
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Qualifications

  • Bachelor's Degree in Civil or Water Resources Engineering or closely related discipline.
  • Professional Engineer license required; Virginia, Maryland, or D.C. preferred.
  • 10+ years of relevant post-education experience in the A/E/C industry.
  • Proficient knowledge of engineering principles related to permitting and project work.
  • Experience with hydraulic modeling of stormwater systems and related software.

Responsibilities

  • Manage the delivery of multiple drainage and stormwater design projects.
  • Coordinate multidisciplinary project teams and alternative delivery methods.
  • Review and approve design plans for regulatory compliance.
  • Mentor and develop junior staff in drainage design skills.
  • Engage with regulatory agencies and clients for project permitting and participation.
  • Monitor project budgets, tracking hours, and ensuring task completion.
  • Support business development efforts, including proposals and client meetings.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage.
  • Disability and life insurance options.
  • Retirement savings plan with employer contributions.
  • Generous paid sick leave and vacation time.
  • Paid parental leave and time off for personal and civic duties.
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Job Description

This Opportunity

Job Description

Manage projects with our Mid-Atlantic Civil and Drainage Team and be a part of a growing organization that meets our client's objectives and solves their challenges.

WSP is currently initiating a search for a Senior Technical Manager - Drainage and Stormwater for our Herndon, Virginia or Washington D.C, office. The successful candidate will manage the delivery of multiple drainage and stormwater design projects and hydrologic and have experience with hydraulic (H&H) studies for stormwater management, conveyance systems, resilient infrastructure, and flood control in Virginia and throughout the Mid-Atlantic region. This is an excellent management position in an internationally recognized global firm in a field designated for rapid growth.

Duties and Responsibilities
  • Perform professional civil engineering on roadway, stormwater, and site projects for multiple federal, state, and local clients. Provide engineering services and project/task management of drainage design, stormwater management, flood control and H&H modeling. Local and state experience on drainage and stormwater management design projects is preferred.
  • Coordinate complex multi-disciplinary traditional design and alternative delivery projects.
  • Coordinate, review and approve design plans, ensuring data integrity and work is compliant with all applicable codes, ordinances, and regulations.
  • Mentor younger staff in the development of their design skills, including in the latest drainage and stormwater design focused on Virginia and local requirements.
  • Permitting, public participation, and coordinating/interacting with regulatory agencies, subcontractors, and clients in a confident and professional manner.
  • Oversee and monitor cross-functional teams in executing projects including budgets, tracking hours and expenses, and task completion.
  • Collaborate with professionals from a variety of disciplines to provide future ready solutions for clients.
  • Remain current in latest drainage and stormwater standards and water resources engineering techniques.
  • Support business development activities in the region, including contributing to proposals, interviews and other pursuit activities.
  • Exercise responsible and ethical decision-making regarding company funds, resources and conduct, and adhere to WSP's Code of Conduct and related policies.
  • Perform additional responsibilities as required by business needs.

Talent is the essence of meeting our client's objectives, goals and challenges. If this sounds like a fit for you, we'd love to have that first discussion of you joining our team.

Minimum Qualifications
  • Bachelor's Degree in Civil or Water Resources Engineering or closely related discipline.
  • Professional Engineer license required. Virginia, Maryland and/or District of Columbia P.E. licenses preferred.
  • 10+ years of relevant post-education experience in the A/E/C industry with a technical client-facing background in the water resources sector.
  • Experience in water resources engineering including with hydraulic modeling of open-channel and closed conduit systems.
  • The ability to manage several projects concurrently, provide senior-level input and evaluation on projects, and serve as technical manager.
  • Proficient knowledge of related engineering principles, practices, process, and the application to permitting and project work-related issues.
  • Well-defined knowledge with Stormwater Management, Drainage, Hydrology & Hydraulics Design, Watershed Studies, Floodplain Delineation, etc.
  • Experience with project and client development/relationship management.
  • Proficient ability to coordinate with agency regulators and understand requirements.
  • Highly effective interpersonal and communication skills when interacting with others, expressing ideas effectively and professionally to an engineering and non-engineering audience.
  • Demonstrated high-level of self-leadership with attention to detail, multi-tasking, and prioritization of responsibilities in a dynamic work environment.
  • Ability to work independently and provide guidance and leadership to junior team or project members, with strict adherence to QA/QC.
  • Proficient understanding of and well-defined experience with surface water analysis, hydrologic methodologies/models, hydraulic models, and with software tools for project delivery including AutoCAD, Civil 3D, MicroStation, OpenRoads, PondPack, HEC-RAS, project collaboration software, Bluebeam and ArcGIS software.
  • Demonstrates strong competence in critical thinking and problem-solving skills required to apply technical knowledge to reach conclusions from testing results, data collation, statistical analysis and arriving at the most effective, economical, and logical solution.
  • Demonstrated effectiveness at coordinating and assertively directing subconsultants and others to consistently complete tasks safely and efficiently.

Preferred Qualifications
  • Master's Degree or additional certifications in the above-referenced discipline
  • Experience working with state/county/local/municipal clients in the Northern Virginia region.
  • Virginia DEQ plan reviewer certification for stormwater management and/or erosion control.
  • Working knowledge of roadway and utility design principles, practices, and processes.

Affiliations with professional societies and active industry and community involvement are highly desirable

WSP Benefits:

WSP provides a comprehensive suite of benefits focused on a providing health and financial stability throughout the employee's career. These benefits include coverage related to medical, dental, vision, disability, and life; retirement savings; paid sick leave; paid vacation (or other personal time); paid parental leave; and paid time off for purposes of bereavement, voting, and/or attendance at naturalization proceedings.

Compensation Expected Salary (all locations): $143,600-$193,300 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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About WSP

WSP is a Canadian engineering consulting firm that provides services to transform the built environment and restore the natural environment. The firm's expertise ranges from environmental remediation and urban planning, to engineering iconic buildings and designing sustainable transport networks, to developing the energy sources of the future and enabling new ways of extracting essential resources. It has approximately 54,000 employees, including engineers, technicians, scientists, architects, planners, surveyors, program and construction management professionals, and various environmental experts. WSP has offices in more than 40 countries and territories around the world.
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