Northeast Water Resources Lead

Description

• Deliver budgeted year over year organic growth within the Practice Area.
• Strengthen strategic accounts and drive exceptional client care within the northeast water resources practice area.
• Optimize resource planning across offices.
• Build and maintain a 4:1 pipeline (qualified pursuits to bookings) that aligns with the business plan.
• Craft and implement targeted market growth strategies, aligned with our regional and global water growth strategy.
• 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.
• Provide end-to-end pursuit leadership for key opportunities: own capture plans, positioning, and win strategies.
• Foster employee engagement, diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives.
• Champion a positive, inclusive, high-performance, and low-ego workplace culture.
• Provide go/no go decision making for practice area opportunities to align investment of business development dollars with growth strategy.
• Achieve margin and project performance targets through proactive risk management, disciplined delivery, and consistent QA/QC across multi-disciplinary teams.
• Mentor and develop talent, lead hiring plans, and succession strategies to strengthen the bench.

Requirements

• Candidate must have strong technical writing and communication skills.
• Master’s degree in engineering or business management.
• Bachelor’s degree in civil engineering or related field.
• Design-build or other alternative project delivery experience.
• Professional Engineering License (PE) in multi-states.
• Demonstrated ability to lead diverse teams and inspire cross-functional collaboration.
• Proven history of upholding workplace safety and ability to abide by WSP’s health, safety and drug/alcohol and harassment policies.
• Excellent leadership and interpersonal communication skills with the ability to effectively interact with employees at all levels of the organization.
• 15 years of post-education experience in water resources engineering, with at least 10 years of related experience in the Northeast.
• Professional Engineering License (PE) in Massachusetts or New York.
• Advanced proficiency with engineering principles, practices, process, design/build, standard of care and project work-related issues.
• Travel within the Northeast region, with potential for travel beyond region.

Benefits

Training + Development

Interview process

Visa Sponsorship

Security clearance