Vice President, Wastewater Engineer

Job-ID: 87303Category: EngineeringLocation: Los Angeles, CA, United States; Irvine, CA, United States; Sacramento, CA, United States; San Francisco, CA, United States; San Diego, CA, United StatesPosted: 2026-05-19This OpportunityConsider joining our team as a Vice President, Wastewater Engineer for our California District. This position can be located out of the following California offices: Los Angeles, Sacramento, Irvine, San Diego or San Francisco. WSP USA operates with a flexible Hybrid-Workplace Model. Come be involved in projects with our California Team and be a part of a growing organization that solves regional wastewater and water challenges! Your primary role will be to lead technical project delivery, provide technical quality reviews, to guide key technical design decisions and make recommendations to our clients that will guide future ready infrastructure solutions for our largest wastewater clients on our most complex projects. You will collaborate with our dedicated, local design teams, while being supported by our international expertise. You’ll work with water, geotechnical, tunneling and transportation engineers, and environmental and permitting experts. Through your technical expertise, you would excel at building relationships with our clients, becoming their trusted partner. Our water team is growing, and in this role, you will also help shape the future of our team through team leadership and technical development activities. Your voice will help lead our team to grow to the next level. You will also have the opportunity to manage team members, supporting their career development and providing professional mentorship and technical guidance.Your ImpactProvide proactive and strategic leadership for the engineering discipline and function, offering direction, expertise, and support to ensure project and work site deliverables are successfully achieved within the business sector.Perform high-level professional engineering relating to complex wastewater infrastructure projects for our largest wastewater clients in the California District.Serve as a technical subject matter expert in water/wastewater applications on water and wastewater conveyance, treatment, and pump station design projects guiding design approach and activities. Coordinate, review and approve of infrastructure design plans, ensuring data integrity and work is compliant with all applicable codes, ordinances, and regulations.Be active in local professional organizations and remain current in latest water engineering techniques.Meet with various public or private entities or individuals to discuss issues relating to a variety of environmental problems and programs. Actively foster compliance with applicable Federal, State, and Local environmental laws, policies, and regulatory requirements.Ensure that engineering discipline certifications, accreditations, and value proposition is developed and continuously improved.Conduct needs analyses and client value surveys to align the engineering discipline’s function with business and project strategy, identifying and addressing any skill gaps or risks within the sector business operations.Schedule engineering discipline meetings, providing updates and recommendations to ensure that all reasonable and proper measures are taken to inculcate discipline expertise and innovation into project work.Serve as one of the engineering discipline’s lead representatives/liaison to a variety of external entities including Federal, State, and Local Agencies, Clients, Subcontractors, industry-related groups, and various government and community entities.Develop and inform proposal and project scopes, timelines, pricing, and budgetary metrics – and accountable for planning, development and management of projects in compliance with all applicable City/State/federal codes and regulations, and in accordance with all acceptable engineering practices.Provide verbal and/or written inputs to multi-disciplinary project teams and contribute to providing high level strategic advice to clients.Develop a client base for providing high level water resources engineering services including identifying additional business development opportunities.Mentor staff to support their growth and professional development.Manage and provide performance guidance and leadership to assigned staff.Collaborate 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 AreRequired QualificationsBachelor’s Degree in Civil or Environmental Engineering, with a focus in Wastewater or closely related discipline.12+ years of relevant post education experience in water resources engineering.Engineer license required (multi-state preferred).Proficient knowledge of water/wastewater engineering principles, models, and technologies.Strong working knowledge of relevant environmental laws, regulations, compliance practices, and record-keeping requirements, and the business impact upon the organization.Advanced proficiency with making technical computations and calculations involving the application of engineering principles, understanding plans and specifications and making factual comparisons to the appropriate regulations. Works independently and provides guidance and leadership to mid-level to senior level team or project members, with strict adherence to QA/QC.Excellent leadership and interpersonal communication skills with the ability to effectively, persuasively, and tactfully interact with employees at all levels of the organization.Tactical lateral thinking and strong analytical skills with attention to detail and prioritization of responsibilities in a pressure work environment.Ability to elicit cooperation from a wide variety of sources, including senior management, clients, regulators, and company-wide staff, including those with whom no formal hierarchical relationship exits. Advanced proficiency with office automation and communication software, technology, math principles, predictive models, and tools.Proven track record of upholding workplace safety and ability to abide by WSP’s health, safety and drug/alcohol and harassment policies.Strong ability to quickly adapt to change and demonstrate flexibility to a variety of schedules and hours to meet business needs.Occasional travel may be required depending on project-specific requirements.Preferred QualificationsMaster’s Degree in Engineering.Strong experience in managing the review and approval of documents and discipline-specific deliverables, certifications, processes, and plans in a multi-project environment is highly desirable.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): $130,700 - $240,790WSP 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. #LI-MF1About the companyAbout WSPWSP 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.