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This Opportunity

WSP is currently initiating a search for a Senior Vice President – Environmental Engineering for our New York City office. The right candidate will serve a technical leader in our Transportation Team and be a part of a growing organization that meets our client’s objectives and solves their challenges.

Your Impact

• Provide proactive and strategic leadership for the scientific discipline and function, offering direction, expertise, and support to ensure project and work site deliverables are successfully achieved within the business sector.

• Develop and inform proposal and project scopes, timelines, pricing, and budgetary metrics.

• Lead technical aspects of contract negotiation, presentations, and meetings.

• Oversee the appropriate use of topographic maps, aerial photographs, GPS units, and other maps and tools to ensure the exact locations of project areas, site impact, habitat types, and associated physical and wildlife sensitivities.

• Lead larger-scale and complex engineering projects, ensuring contributors know what they are required to do and by when, preparing and overseeing relevant project budgets, monitoring external events, tracking hours and expenses, ensuring profitability and satisfactory performance, and supervising subcontractors, contract work, and employees.

• Responsible for the contribution and management of multi-disciplinary project teams in all phases of the execution and delivery of siting and licensing for assigned business sector production projects, as well as natural resource planning and management projects.

• Schedule 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.

• Actively foster compliance with applicable Federal, State, and Local environmental laws, policies, and regulatory requirements.

• Conduct needs analyses and client value surveys to align the scientific discipline’s function with business and project strategy, identifying and addressing any skill gaps or risks within the sector business operations.

• Perform additional responsibilities as required by business needs.

Who You Are

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Environmental Engineering, Geology, Environmental Science or closely related discipline.

• 15+ years of Environmental Science experience in a consulting environment.

• Strong working knowledge of relevant environmental laws, regulations, compliance practices, and record-keeping requirements, and the business impact upon the organization.

• 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.

• 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 Qualifications

• Master’s Degree in Engineering, Geology, Environmental Science of related field.

• Essential professional licensure/certification.

• Experience in managing the review of documents and preparation of discipline-specific deliverables, certifications, processes, and plans in a multi-project environment is highly desirable.