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This Opportunity

WSP is currently initiating a search for a Senior Field Environmental Compliance Coordinator (Field-Based). Join our Earth & Environment Team and support major construction projects across Pennsylvania and New Jersey. This position plays a key field role ensuring environmental compliance during active construction, working directly with contractors, field inspectors, and project leadership.

This role provides hands-on environmental oversight, field data interpretation, and construction-phase environmental compliance support. Work includes erosion and sediment control inspections, trenching/backfilling oversight, HDD monitoring, restoration compliance, and coordination with PADEP, NJDEP, and conservation districts. Responsibilities focus on ensuring construction activities meet environmental requirements, identifying and resolving field compliance issues, tracking site progress, and ensuring high-quality documentation.

Your Impact

+ Oversee field-based environmental inspection teams assigned to construction projects segments in PA and NJ.

+ Manage environmental inspectors conducting erosion and sediment control monitoring, HDD oversight, trenching/backfilling inspection, and compressor station environmental controls.

+ Review and quality-check daily field reports prior to submission to the ECC.

+ Ensure corrective actions are identified, assigned, and closed out per PADEP and NJDEP requirements.

+ Coordinate directly with contractor foremen and construction managers to resolve field compliance issues.

+ Track field progress, access limitations, and schedule risks related to environmental requirements.

Who You Are

Required Qualifications

+ Bachelor’s Degree in Environmental Science, Environmental Engineering, Ecology, Natural Resources, or a related field.

+ 5 to 7 years of experience conducting environmental fieldwork, construction monitoring, habitat/impact assessments, or environmental compliance oversight for infrastructure projects.

+ Experience overseeing environmental inspection teams on PA and NJ construction projects, including erosion & sediment control monitoring, HDD oversight, trenching/backfilling inspection, and compressor-station environmental controls.

+ Demonstrated ability to work directly with contractor foremen, superintendents, and construction managers to resolve real-time compliance issues.

+ Experience reviewing and QA/QC’ing daily field reports, environmental logs, and corrective-action documentation.

+ Ability to identify, assign, and close out corrective actions in accordance with PADEP and NJDEP requirements.

+ Ability to track field progress, access limitations, environmental constraints, and schedule risks related to regulatory requirements.

+ Strong understanding of PADEP, NJDEP, and county conservation district permitting pathways and field compliance expectations.

+ Demonstrated experience contributing to environmental reports, siting analyses, environmental impact evaluations, and permit documentation.

+ Strong communication skills and the ability to interpret regulatory requirements for construction teams in a clear, actionable way.

+ Ability to multitask in a dynamic construction environment while providing leadership and QA/QC oversight to junior field staff.

+ Strong critical-thinking and problem-solving skills for interpreting field conditions and recommending corrective measures.

+ Proven commitment to safety and ability to comply with WSP’s health, safety, drug/alcohol, and harassment policies.

+ Ability to support non-standard schedules, including extended construction shifts.

+ Position requires 100% travel and full-time field presence at project sites.

Preferred Qualifications

+ Master’s Degree is preferred.

+ 40-Hour OSHA Health & Safety Training (HAZWOPER) (29 CFR 1910.120) preferred.

+ Basic First Aid and Adult CPR training desired.

WSP Benefits

WSP provides a comprehensive suite of benefits focused on 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): $103,300 - 170,500

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.