Illinois Drainage Lead

This Opportunity

Provide regional and/or multi-sector leadership for transportation drainage and stormwater engineering projects, primarily supporting Illinois Department of Transportation (IDOT), Chicago Department of Transportation (CDOT), and other transportation agencies throughout the Midwest region. Serves as a subject matter expert responsible for delivering high-quality water resources and roadway drainage solutions that meet industry and company standards. Leads technical innovation, quality, and compliance efforts while supporting broader water resources opportunities, including floodplain management, stormwater planning, green infrastructure, and municipal water resources projects across the Chicago area.

• Provide proactive and strategic process and people leadership for the design, implementation, and administration of engineering discipline’s project and program involvement within the organization.
• Lead the most complex and largest scale water resources engineering projects within the engineering discipline, ensuring contributors know what they are required to do and by when, preparing and overseeing relevant project budgets, monitoring internal and external events, tracking hours and expenses, ensuring satisfactory performance and profitability, and supervising subcontractors, contract work, and employees.
• Responsible for the pursuit and development of business and the successful execution of work for current and potential infrastructure work within a geography specifically for the large projects within the area.
• Lead technical aspects of contract negotiation, presentations, and meetings.
• Drive the overall long-term strategy, growth, and pipeline development of Water Resources Engineering work for WSP in the Chicago, IL area and surrounding midwest, with a focus on infrastructure opportunities in all disciplines (planning, design, and strategic consulting and program/construction management).
• Accountable for the profitable performance of the individual projects and the successful completion of the projects within the specified area.
• Develop high-level business contacts and a client base for providing high level water resources engineering services including identifying additional business development opportunities, and cross-selling of other WSP capabilities.
• Drive compliance and accountability-at-all-levels with applicable Federal, State, and Local environment laws, policies and regulatory requirements.
• Lead engineering discipline meetings and continuing educational opportunities for area of responsibility, providing updates and recommendations to staff that ensure all appropriate measures are taken to foster innovation, development, and quality project delivery within the discipline.
• Serve as the engineering discipline’s representative/liaison to a variety of external entities including Federal, State, and Local Agencies, Clients, Subcontractors, industry-related groups, and various government and community entities.
• Provide senior leadership for proposals and project work scopes, pricing, budget, and performance metrics for the engineering discipline.
• Interpret and summarize data, including reports and documents for complex projects and initiatives that result in sound engineering and regulatory conclusions.
• Provide discipline leadership to multi-disciplinary project teams and contribute to providing high level strategic advice to clients.
• Provides performance guidance and leadership to assigned managers and staff.
• Develop high level business contacts and a client base for providing high level water resources engineering and environmental risk assessment services including identifying additional business development opportunities.
• Collaborates 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.

• Bachelor’s Degree in Civil or Environmental Engineering, with a focus in Water Resources…