Senior Environmental Project Manager - Team Lead

Senior Environmental Project Manager - Team Lead

Shape the future of energy in Texas and Louisiana. Join a leadership role at the forefront of grid modernization, renewable development, and critical infrastructure delivery.

WSP is helping shape the future of energy infrastructure across Texas, Louisiana, and the broader south-central U.S. With decades of experience delivering complex power and energy projects, our work spans transmission line development, renewable energy generation, energy storage, and grid modernization. We combine technical excellence with a strong commitment to sustainability, regulatory compliance, and trusted partnerships with clients, agencies, landowners, and communities.

Why WSP

• Meaningful Impact – Help deliver critical energy infrastructure projects that strengthen grid reliability, advance sustainability goals, and support long-term growth across the region.
• Exceptional Collaboration – Partner with talented, multidisciplinary professionals who are committed to technical excellence, innovation, and delivering results for clients.
• Career Growth – Take advantage of visible leadership opportunities, mentorship, technical development, and clear pathways for continued advancement.
• Flexibility and Wellbeing – Thrive in an environment that supports work-life balance, flexible work arrangements, and a strong culture of health, safety, and wellbeing.
• Competitive Rewards – Benefit from a comprehensive compensation package, performance incentives, and robust benefits designed to support you and your future.

This Opportunity

Are you ready to play a leading role in shaping the next generation of energy infrastructure across Texas and Louisiana? WSP is seeking a strategic, client-focused Senior Environmental Project Manager - Team Lead to oversee and grow a team of environmental professionals supporting power and energy projects. This is a high-impact leadership role with responsibility for people management, team development, and workload planning, in addition to leading complex, high-visibility projects. The successful candidate will set technical direction, mentor and develop staff, and play an active role in expanding WSP's environmental services capabilities in the region.

In this role, you will bring expertise in siting and routing, environmental impact assessment, and project permitting, along with the leadership and collaboration skills needed to guide multidisciplinary teams and build trusted client relationships. You will also bring a strong understanding of the Texas/Louisiana energy market and the ability to help clients navigate complex regulatory, environmental, and stakeholder challenges.

As our regional workload continues to grow, you will join WSP's interdisciplinary Energy team focused on siting and routing, state permitting, and impact assessments across the social, natural, and physical environment. This role offers the opportunity to work alongside experienced professionals on some of the region's most important energy projects and may be based in Austin, TX; Houston, TX; San Antonio, TX; Fort Worth/Dallas, TX; Corpus Christi, TX; or Baton Rouge, LA.

Your Impact

• Team Leadership - Provide direct leadership to a team of environmental professionals, including workload planning, staff development, mentoring, performance feedback, and support for career growth. Foster an inclusive, high-performing team culture focused on technical excellence, collaboration, and client service.
• Project Leadership – Lead multidisciplinary teams on complex energy projects, driving delivery that is timely, high quality, and aligned with scope, budget, and client expectations.
• Siting and Routing Leadership – Direct site selection and route evaluation for transmission, distribution, and generation facilities, helping clients make informed, strategic decisions.
• Permitting and Compliance – Lead environmental permitting efforts, application development, agency coordination, public meetings, and stakeholder engagement across complex projects.
• Regulatory Strategy – Partner with local, state, and federal agencies and provide strategic guidance on filing requirements, regulatory pathways, and project approvals. Experience with expert witness testimony is a strong plus.
• Market Insight – Stay ahead of policy developments, regulatory changes, and emerging technologies shaping the Texas/Louisiana and the broader south-central U.S. energy markets and use that insight to support client success.
• Trusted Partnership – Serve as a trusted advisor to clients, regulators, landowners, and internal teams, helping navigate complex environmental, permitting, and stakeholder issues.
• Business Growth – Lead proposal development, scope definition, budgets, schedules, and client relationship expansion to support continued growth in the region, including strategic hiring, staff utilization, and succession planning.
• Operational Excellence – Champion innovation, continuous improvement, and best practices that strengthen team capability, consistency, and project delivery performance across the region.

Who You Are

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Biology, Ecology, Engineering, Environmental Science, Project Management, or a related field; advanced degree preferred.
• 10+ years of experience managing environmental projects in the energy sector, including transmission, generation, renewables, or pipelines.
• Experience serving as a team lead, practice lead, or functional lead within an environmental, engineering, or consulting organization.
• Excellent leadership, communication, and interpersonal skills, with the ability to build trust and collaborate effectively across all levels of an organization.
• Demonstrated success developing winning proposals, delivering compelling presentations, and supporting client growth.
• Demonstrated expertise in siting and routing, permitting, impact assessments, and regulatory compliance in Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, or Mississippi.
• Experience preparing and managing Public Utility Commission/Public Service Commission applications, including expert testimony.

Job Info

• Job Identification 87097
• Posting Date 05/14/2026, 05:03 PM

About Us

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.

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.