Lead Plumbing Engineer - Buildings

Lead Plumbing Engineer – Buildings

Join our Property & Buildings Team and be a part of a growing organization that meets our client's objectives and solves their challenges. WSP is currently initiating a search for a full‑time Lead Plumbing Engineer for our Kansas City, MO office. You will lead the planning, design, and delivery of building plumbing systems across healthcare, higher education, laboratory, mission‑critical, and commercial projects in the public and private sector.

You’ll own technical direction, coordinate across disciplines, guide quality, and mentor designers, while engaging directly with clients, partners, and contractors. This position is best suited for an engineer who is seeking an opportunity to work within a team‑focused local office, for a large world‑wide engineering firm that is focused on career development, mentoring and employee satisfaction.

• Lead plumbing system design for buildings:
  Steer the design for domestic water, sanitary waste, vent, storm, natural gas, fire suppression and protection, specialty lab & medical gases. Oversee and monitor junior engineers, technicians, and/or other scientific professionals to execute project work on multiple concurrent projects, including tracking design budget hours and expenses, monitoring task completion, overseeing technical calculations, schematics, and project documentation, including regulatory and technical analyses.
• Engage with Clients and Lead: lead meetings, present options and trade‑offs, and drive informed decision‑making during project design. Interact and collaborate with our clients, design professionals, other engineers, architects, sub‑consultants, contractors, trade contractors, and building and infrastructure authorities on Federal, State, and regional agencies in a confident and professional manner.
• Conduct on‑site observations of existing and proposed building site conditions, equipment, utilizes, resources, infrastructure, and current usage. Provide junior engineers with guidance on collecting, compiling, and analyzing data from the physical work site, surveys, legacy blueprints, schematics, data, technical drawings, computer‑generated reports.
• Develop design deliverables:
  Apply high‑level plumbing engineering techniques and processes to identify improvements for various building projects. Prepare calculations, equipment sizing, engineering reports, design narratives. Develop design from conceptual phase through detailed design onto construction documents and implementation plans and technical specifications.
• Manage multi‑discipline coordination with mechanical, electrical, fire protection, architectural, and civil teams; integrate design with BIM workflows (Revit/AutoCAD)
• Own Quality: ensure compliance with codes and standards (IPC/UPC, NFPA e.g., 13/14/20) and firm design standards and guidelines. Coordinate, review and approve design plans, ensuring compliance with all applicable codes, ordinances, and regulations. Stamp/seal deliverables as appropriate.
• Support construction administration: respond to RFIs, review submittals and shop drawings, attend site visits, and verify installation against plans and specifications.
• Embody Our Culture:
  Develop, review, disseminate, and abide by site Health and Safety Plans (HASPs). 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.
• Grow and Learn:
  Remain current in latest engineering techniques and practices. Maintain your credentials and advance in your field. Bring a good helpful attitude so that you will be eager to teach what you know, learn what you don’t know, and be ready to have fun!
• Perform additional responsibilities as required by business needs.

• Bachelor’s Degree in Architectural/Building System, Plumbing, or Mechanical Engineering, or closely related discipline.
• 7 to 10 years of relevant post‑education experience in engineering discipline and prior plumbing or mechanical design experience related to buildings.
• A portfolio spanning at least two of the following sectors: healthcare, higher education,…