Air Quality Engineer

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The Opportunity

Build the Future with Us – Join our Environmental Management team as a Senior Air Quality Engineer in our Vancouver, BC office. 

Bring your technical expertise and consulting experience to projects that help clients understand and manage air emissions, navigate regulatory requirements and make informed environmental decisions. You’ll work with a multidisciplinary team delivering air quality assessments, dispersion modelling, emissions inventories, monitoring programs and permitting services across British Columbia, Yukon and Western Canada.

This role combines hands-on technical work with project management, client engagement and mentoring. You’ll take ownership of project delivery, guide developing professionals and contribute to new business opportunities, with support from WSP’s regional and national network of specialists

We welcome experienced engineers ready to take the next step, as well as established senior engineers seeking new challenges. The scope of the role will reflect your experience, technical strengths and demonstrated leadership capabilities.

Your Impact

• Lead and deliver air quality projects for industrial, commercial, infrastructure and public-sector clients, supporting regulatory approvals, environmental impact assessments and special studies.

• Undertake and guide emissions inventories and dispersion modelling assessments using tools such as AERMOD and CALPUFF, ensuring appropriate methodology, model inputs, assumptions and interpretation of results.

• Analyze meteorological and ambient air quality data to characterize baseline conditions, assess impacts, and develop practical monitoring and mitigation recommendations.

• Prepare and review technical reports, air permit applications, regulatory submissions, and air quality monitoring and management plans, coordinating with field specialists to align monitoring programs, data quality objectives and reporting requirements.

• Manage projects from proposal through closeout, including scope development, budgeting, scheduling, resource coordination, progress reporting, invoicing, financial performance, and proactive management of scope, budget or schedule changes.