Lead Consultant, Water

This Opportunity

WSP is currently initiating a search for a Lead Consultant, Water for our Mountain Pacific District. This position will be located out of our Portland, OR office. WSP USA Operates with a Hybrid-Workplace Model. Be involved in projects with our Mountain Pacific Water Team and be a part of a growing organization that meets our client's objectives and solves their challenges.

Your primary role will be to serve as a technical leader for drinking water clients across Oregon and the Pacific Northwest. You will lead planning, design, and delivery of water treatment, storage, transmission, distribution, and capital improvement projects, helping clients address aging infrastructure, regulatory requirements, system resilience, and future growth. Working closely with multidisciplinary teams across WSP, you will provide technical leadership, manage project delivery, support business development efforts, and help develop the next generation of water professionals.

The position includes significant client-facing responsibilities and requires the ability to build trusted relationships, lead technical discussions, and support business development efforts. The successful candidate will also play an important role in developing our people through technical mentorship, career coaching, knowledge sharing, and support of project managers and engineers at various stages of their professional growth.

As a key member of our growing water practice, you will also support business development activities, identify opportunities with existing and prospective clients, contribute to strategic account planning, and support pursuit activities including proposals and interviews. Your leadership will help grow our drinking water practice and shape the future of our team.

• Perform project management and professional engineering relating to complex drinking water infrastructure projects, including treatment, transmission, storage, pumping, distribution, and system planning.
• Serve as a technical lead and subject matter expert for drinking water projects, providing guidance and oversight throughout planning, design, permitting, and construction support efforts.
• Oversee and monitor multidisciplinary project teams and specialty subconsultants to execute projects while managing scope, schedule, budget, quality, and risk.
• Coordinate, review, and approve engineering reports, technical memoranda, plans, specifications, and design calculations, ensuring compliance with applicable regulations, codes, and standards.
• Collaborate with professionals from a variety of disciplines to develop future-ready water infrastructure solutions for clients.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with municipal, utility, and industrial water clients, serving as a trusted advisor and helping identify opportunities for continued partnership.
• Support business development efforts through client engagement, strategic account planning, proposal development, scope and fee development, and participation in project interviews.
• Mentor and develop engineers and project managers through technical guidance, career development support, and professional coaching.
• Stay current on emerging drinking water regulations, treatment technologies, resilience strategies, and industry best practices through active participation in professional organizations and industry events.
• 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 or closely related discipline.
• 7 to 10 years of relevant post education experience in water resources engineering.
• Professional Engineer (PE) license required.
• Proficient knowledge of water resource engineering principles, practices, process.
• Demonstrated experience leading multidisciplinary drinking water infrastructure projects. Proficient ability to coordinate with agency regulators and understand requirements.
• Well‑developed ability to…