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This Opportunity

WSP is seeking a Program Manager/Technical Director - Environmental Engineer to join our Earth & Environment Federal team in San Diego, CA. We are looking for a candidate with significant consulting experience and technical expertise who is excited about the opportunity to be a part of a growing organization. The selected candidate will provide subject matter technical support and leadership for a broad range of environmental engineering services including environmental compliance, water/wastewater engineering, water resources, stormwater management, and hazardous waste management.

Your Impact

+ Provide leadership and drive sustainable growth of the California Navy Environmental portfolio (compliance and remediation).

+ Represent WSP to the client with a positive, relationship-oriented, solutions-delivery approach by leveraging the depth and breadth of our environmental capabilities.

+ Expand the relationship base within NAVFAC SW, NAVFAC NW, and NAVFAC Pacific and help diversity across other federal agencies (USACE, Air Force, Civilian Agencies).

+ Identify and drive strategic opportunities for sales and revenue growth across entire WSP federal portfolio

+ Lead or assist in leading pursuits of new contracts, to include development of capture plans.

+ Lead or assist in the preparation of major proposals and/or task order bids.

+ Foster relationships with partners, small businesses, and internal stakeholders to unlock collaborative opportunities.

+ Project manage environmental compliance and civil/environmental engineering type projects primarily for Federal clients, to include Navy, Air Force, Army, and other civilian Federal agencies ranging in project size from $100K to $2M. Lead larger-scale 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.

+ Direct and provide oversight for data collection efforts including collecting, identifying, and compiling environmental data from samples potentially from air, soil, water, sludge, and other matrices for projects, investigations, and surveys.

+ Perform professional environmental engineering work and conduct more complex/comprehensive type of compliance projects, water supply facilities, industrial and agricultural facilities, pollution sources and proposed and existing site conditions, water resources, and underground and aboveground storage tanks to determine conformance with applicable rules, standards, and construction or operating permits.

+ Assist with engineering review of permit applications, engineering design plans and specifications, standby plans and engineering contracts, integrated waste management plans, to ensure that they comply with applicable state and/or federal regulations and sound engineering practice and standards.

+ Meet with various Federal entities or individuals to discuss issues relating to a variety of environmental problems and programs.

+ Ensure technical reports and presentations explain research, findings, and recommendations to prevent, control, restore, clean-up, or address environmental issues or problems.

+ Develop action plans for larger-scale pollution, corrosion, hazardous waste, and environmental control programs.

+ Develop a client base for providing high level environmental engineering services including identifying additional business development opportunities.

+ Mentor staff to support their growth and professional development. Remain current in latest environmental engineering techniques.

+ Collaborates 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, or closely related Engineering discipline. BS degree must be received from ABET accredited University.

+ Desire Program Management (>$20M Programs) and business development experience.

+ 12+ years of relevant post education experience in civil or environmental engineering. Professional Civil Engineer license in California is highly desired.

+ Highly proficient with engineering principles, practices, and methods and their application to environmental compliance and project work-related issues.

+ Strong knowledge of relevant environmental laws, regulations, and compliance practices.

+ Experienced with planning and conducting environmental permitting, treatment systems, and applying applicable regulations and policies.

+ Highly effective interpersonal and communication skills with the ability to interact professionally, persuasively, and tactfully with clients, regulators, project managers, and employees at all levels of the organization.

+ Ability to provide guidance and leadership to mid-level to senior-level team or project members and mentor junior staff, with strict adherence to QA/QC.

+ Proficiency with technical writing, providing critical review for documents, and preparing technical deliverables and plans with a high degree of complexity.

+ Well-developed 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 solutions.

+ Experienced with managing programs and projects, including management of contracts, scope, schedule, and budget, and client and stakeholder interaction.

+ Demonstrated effectiveness at coordinating and assertively directing subcontractors and others to consistently complete tasks safely and efficiently.

+ Proven track record of upholding workplace safety and ability to abide by WSP’s health, safety and drug/alcohol and harassment policies.

+ Must be flexible to a variety of schedules to meet business needs and able to prioritize responsibilities and quickly adapt to change in a pressure work environment.

+ Occasional travel may be required depending on project-specific requirements.

Preferred Qualifications:

+ Master’s Degree in Engineering.

+ Basic First Aid and Adult CPR training desired.

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): $146,700- 226,050

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 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.

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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 employee’s 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 – no fee or other compensation will be owed or paid to the recruiter, employment agency, or other staffing service.