Senior Technical Manager - Drainage and Stormwater

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.

At WSP, we are driven by inspiring the right people to be part of our future-focused business objectives. Our devotion to teamwork has allowed us to build communities and expand our skylines. Here at WSP, anything is within our reach and yours as a WSP employee. Come join us and help shape the future!

WSP is currently initiating a search for a Senior Technical Manager - Drainage and Stormwater for our Herndon, Virginia 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