Senior Technical Director, Water & Wastewater Technical Leader

About the job

This Opportunity

Consider joining our team as a Senior Vice President, Water & Wastewater Technical Leader in Albuquerque, New Mexico. WSP USA operates with a flexible Hybrid Workplace Model. Come be involved in projects with our New Mexico and Mountain Region Water Team and be part of a growing organization that solves complex regional water and wastewater infrastructure challenges.

This role is structured as a part-time position, providing senior-level technical expertise and advisory support on an as-needed basis to projects and teams across the region.

In this role, you will serve as a senior technical authority and subject matter expert in water and wastewater engineering, providing high-level technical guidance on complex treatment, conveyance, pumping, and infrastructure projects. You will guide critical engineering and design decisions, perform technical and quality reviews, advise project teams and clients on complex challenges, and collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to develop practical, resilient, and future-ready solutions.

As a recognized technical leader, you will also help advance WSP's water and wastewater capabilities in New Mexico and the Southwest through technical mentorship, client advisory support, strategic pursuits, and development of engineering best practices.

Your Impact

• Provide senior technical guidance and engineering judgment for complex water and wastewater infrastructure projects, including treatment, collection and conveyance systems, lift stations, force mains, pumping systems, rehabilitation, optimization, and related infrastructure.
• Serve as a trusted technical advisor to clients and project teams, developing practical recommendations that consider performance, reliability, lifecycle cost, operability, constructability, regulatory requirements, and implementation.
• Lead high-level technical reviews and QA/QC engineering studies, process evaluations, calculations, plans, specifications, cost estimates, and other major project deliverables.
• Provide senior technical consultation at key stages of the project lifecycle, including planning, feasibility studies, preliminary and final design, construction, commissioning, and operational optimization.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary project teams and advise project managers on technical approaches, project risks, and resolution of complex engineering challenges.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with municipal, tribal, state, federal, and other public-sector clients and represent WSP in technical discussions with clients, regulatory agencies, partners, contractors, and industry organizations.
• Support strategic business development, including client engagement, major pursuits, proposal strategy, technical approaches, and interviews.
• Mentor and develop engineering staff, advance technical standards and best practices, and promote innovation, lessons learned, and consistent QA/QC across project teams.
• Remain actively engaged with professional organizations and advances in water and wastewater treatment, conveyance, pumping, resource recovery, water reuse, and emerging technologies.
• Exercise responsible and ethical decision-making and comply with WSP's Code of Conduct and applicable company policies.
• Perform additional responsibilities as required by business and project needs.

Who You Are

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Civil, Environmental, Chemical Engineering, or a closely related engineering discipline.
• 15+ years of progressively responsible water and wastewater engineering experience, including significant technical leadership on complex infrastructure projects.
• Demonstrated subject matter expertise in water and wastewater engineering, including treatment, conveyance, pumping, rehabilitation, optimization, and/or water reuse.
• Proven experience providing senior-level technical guidance, independent technical review, QA/QC, and resolution of complex engineering challenges.
• Strong communication and leadership skills with demonstrated ability to serve as a trusted technical advisor to clients and multidisciplinary project teams.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s degree or advanced degree in a related engineering discipline.
• Current or previous Professional Engineer (PE) licensure in one or more U.S. jurisdictions.
• Recognized technical expertise and industry leadership in water and wastewater engineering, demonstrated through major project experience, technical publications, conference presentations, professional organizations, technical committees, and/or development of industry practices and standards

About Us

About WSP WSP USA is the U.S. operating company of WSP, one of the world's leading engineering and professional services firms. Dedicated to serving local communities, we are engineers, planners, technical experts, strategic advisors and construction management professionals. WSP USA designs lasting solutions in the buildings, transportation, energy, water and environment markets. With more than 15,000 employees in over 300 offices across the U.S., we partner with our clients to help communities prosper.

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WSP provides a flexible and agile workplace model while meeting client needs. Employees are also afforded a comprehensive suite of benefits including medical, dental, vision, disability, life, and retirement savings focused on providing health and financial stability throughout the employee’s career.

At WSP, we want to give our employees the challenges they seek to grow their careers and knowledge base. Your daily contributions to your team will be essential in meeting client objectives, goals and challenges. Are you ready to get started?

WSP USA (and all of its U.S. companies) is an Equal Opportunity Employer Race/Age/Color/Religion/Sex/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity/National Origin/Disability or Protected Veteran Status.

The selected candidate must be authorized to work in the United States.

NOTICE TO THIRD PARTY AGENCIES:

WSP does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruiters, employment agencies, or other staffing services. Unsolicited resumes include any resume or hiring document sent to WSP in the absence of a signed Service Agreement where WSP has expressly requested recruitment/staffing services specific to the position at hand.  Any unsolicited resumes, including those submitted to hiring managers or other business leaders, will become the property of WSP and WSP will have the right to hire that candidate without reservation – no fee or other compensation will be owed or paid to the recruiter, employment agency, or other staffing service.

Additional Information

• Job Identification: 98902
• Job Category: Engineering
• Posting Date: 2026-11-05
• Locations: 4221 Balloon Park Road NE, Albuquerque, NM, 87109, US ()