WSP is seeking a New Mexico Water/Wastewater State Lead to join our Water team. This position will be based out of Albuquerque, New Mexico. The ideal candidate will have a solid technical background in municipal and industrial water/wastewater treatment, coupled with a proven track record in business development within the environmental consulting industry.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s Degree in Civil, Environmental, or Chemical Engineering, with a focus in Water Resources or closely related discipline.
- 12+ years of relevant post education experience in environmental consulting industry, with a focus on water/wastewater treatment.
- Engineer license required (New Mexico Preferred).
- Highly proficient with water resources engineering principles, practices, and methods and their application to environmental and project work-related issues.
- Strong knowledge of relevant environmental laws, regulations, compliance practices, and record-keeping requirements.
- Highly proficient with making technical computations and calculations involving the application of engineering principles, understanding plans and specifications and making factual comparisons to the appropriate regulations.
- Well-defined experience in conducting Phase I and Phase II Environmental Site Assessments in accordance with ASTM guidelines and industry standards.
- Experience with planning and conducting inspections and investigations on various aspects of the construction and design of facilities or structures, applying applicable regulations and policies.
- Highly effective interpersonal and communication skills when interacting with others, expressing intricate ideas effectively and professionally to an engineering and non-engineering audience.
- Strong self-leadership and interpersonal communication skills with the ability to effectively, persuasively, and tactfully interact with clients, regulators, project managers, and employees at all levels of the organization.
- Works independently to provide guidance and leadership to mid-level to senior level team or project members, with strict adherence to QA/QC.
- Proficiency with technical writing, office automation and communication software, technology, math principles, predictive models, and tools.
- Experienced with providing critical review for documents and preparing technical deliverables and plans with a high degree of complexity.
- Well-developed critical thinking and problem-solving skills required to apply technical knowledge to reach conclusions from testing results, data collation, statistical analysis and arriving at the most effective, economical, and logical solution.
- Proven track record of upholding workplace safety and ability to abide by WSP’s health, safety and drug/alcohol and harassment policies.
- Must be flexible to a variety of schedules to meet business needs and able to prioritize responsibilities and quickly adapt to change in a pressure work environment.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, vision, disability, life, and retirement savings
