Senior Water Resources Engineer

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WSP is seeking a Senior Water Resources Engineer to join our growing Dam Safety and Water Resources practice. This position may be based in Philadelphia, Exton, Bristol, Blue Bell, Baltimore, Columbia, Herndon, or other mutually agreeable Mid-Atlantic WSP office locations. The successful candidate will support complex dam safety, levee, hydraulic infrastructure, flood risk management, and resiliency projects for state, federal, utility, and private‑sector clients.

This role provides an opportunity to serve as both a technical leader and project manager while collaborating with multidisciplinary teams across WSP. The successful candidate will help shape project strategy, support client growth, mentor developing staff, and contribute to the continued expansion of WSP's dam safety and water resources practice throughout the Mid-Atlantic and nationally.

The ideal candidate is an experienced engineer who enjoys balancing technical excellence, project delivery, client engagement, and team leadership while remaining actively involved in solving complex water resources challenges.

• Perform dam and levee engineering analyses, including dam safety inspections, hydraulic infrastructure evaluations, and regulated impoundment compliance assessments in accordance with state and federal dam safety regulations.
• Conduct hydrologic and hydraulic modeling for dam safety, including incremental and full dam ‑ breach analyses, spillway capacity evaluations, and downstream consequence assessments using HEC ‑ HMS and HEC ‑ RAS (1D/2D).
• Support dam rehabilitation and modification projects in collaboration with geotechnical and structural teams, including spillway improvements, embankment stability, seepage mitigation, outlet works, and auxiliary structures.
• Prepare and support Emergency Action Plans (EAPs), inundation mapping, and coordination with owners and emergency management agencies.
• Perform instrumentation evaluation, monitoring data review, and dam surveillance planning to support risk ‑ informed decision‑making.
• Perform stormwater and watershed analyses supporting dam, levee, and flood ‑ risk management projects.
• Prepare technical reports and presentations that clearly communicate findings and recommendations.
• Prepare and implement site Health and Safety Plans (HASPs).
• Interact with regulatory agencies, subcontractors, and clients confidently and professionally.
• Serve as Project Manager, Deputy Project Manager or Technical Lead on complex dam, levee, water resources, and hydraulic infrastructure projects.
• Lead and coordinate multidisciplinary project teams, including engineers, field staff, and technical specialists to deliver integrated and high‑quality project solutions.
• Assist with project scoping, budgeting, scheduling, and execution to ensure timely and successful delivery.
• Review and oversee engineering analyses, reports, designs, and other project deliverables prepared by junior and mid‑level staff, ensuring technical quality, consistency, and regulatory compliance.
• Provide technical leadership, mentorship, and career development guidance to early and mid‑career engineers and project team members.
• Support proposal development, client engagement, marketing initiatives, and business development activities that contribute to the growth of WSP's services.
• Build strong working relationships with clients and contribute to long‑term account management.
• 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.

• Bachelor’s degree in civil or environmental engineering or closely related discipline.
• Demonstrated experience in dam, hydraulic infrastructure, water resources engineering, flood risk management, or closely related disciplines.
• Licensed Professional Engineer (PE), with ability to obtain additional state licensures as needed.
• Well ‑ developed knowledge of dam safety and hydraulic infrastructure engineering, including flood hydrology, spillway hydraulics, dam breach analysis, floodplain delineation, risk analysis and watershed ‑ scale…