This Opportunity

WSP is seeking a Senior Surface Water Engineer to join our Las Vegas office. This role is intended for an engineer with strong local drainage and stormwater design experience who can support with project management across a diverse portfolio of transportation, municipal, and flood risk management projects.

The position will support WSP’s Las Vegas-based surface water engineering team through project management activities including scope development, schedule and budget tracking, client engagement, and QA/QC, while remaining technically engaged in hydrologic and hydraulic analysis and design.

This role also provides mentorship and technical guidance to junior staff working on stormwater engineering and complex municipal drainage projects. The Senior Surface Water Engineer will support junior engineers in developing designs for stormwater master planning, stormwater management facilities, culverts, hydrology, open channel and bridge hydraulics, floodplain modeling and mapping, hydrologic and hydraulic modeling, and river, stream, and habitat restoration projects.

Your Impact

Provide guidance with data collection efforts for collecting, identifying, and compiling data for hydrologic and hydraulic analysis.
Lead and support drainage and stormwater design, including roadway drainage, flood channels, detention/retention basins, culvert and bridge hydraulics, outfalls, and urban stormwater systems.
Perform and review hydrologic and hydraulic analyses using industry-standard tools and local/regional methods.
Coordinate, review and approve stormwater management design, ensuring data integrity and work is compliant with all applicable codes, ordinances, and regulations.
Prepare comprehensive technical drainage reports that explain research, findings, and recommendations to address stormwater management.
Oversee and monitor multi-disciplinary teams to execute project tasks including budgets, tracking hours and expenses, task completion, permit applications, compliance documentation, and regulatory and technical reports.
Help manage submittals, review cycles, and internal coordination to maintain predictable delivery.
Mentor and develop junior engineers through technical coaching, project reviews, and hands-on guidance in drainage design, hydrologic analysis, hydraulic modeling, and stormwater engineering.
Support staff growth by sharing best practices, reviewing technical work products, and providing training on hydrologic and hydraulic modeling tools, design standards, and regulatory requirements.
Foster a collaborative learning environment that promotes technical excellence, professional development, and knowledge sharing across the surface water practice.
Provide technical oversight and QA/QC for modeling and design deliverables.
Maintain and grow working relationships with local municipalities, agencies, and regional stakeholders.
Participate in client meetings, agency coordination calls, and technical discussions.
Support proposal development and business development efforts through technical input and local knowledge.
Provide day-to-day technical guidance and informal mentorship to junior engineers.
Remain current in latest water resources engineering techniques.
Perform additional responsibilities as required by business needs.

Who You Are

Required Qualifications

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.
Nevada Professional Engineer (PE) license required or ability to obtain licensure within 6 months.
Experience supporting project management tasks such as scope development, coordination, schedules, and budgets.
Working knowledge of FEMA flood studies, floodplain analysis and hazards analysis.
Proficient understanding of and experience with surface water analysis, hydrologic methodologies/models (TR-55, HEC-1, HEC-HMS, etc.), and hydraulic models (HEC-RAS, HEC-RAS-2D, WSPG, HY-8, etc.)
Use computer-aided design (CADD) software to develop design plans. Use of Autodesk and ArcGIS software is expected.
Proficient knowledge of water resource engineering principles, practices, processes, and design.
Well-defined knowledge with Stormwater Management, Drainage, Erosion and Sediment Control, Hydrology & Hydraulics Design, Watershed Studies, Floodplain Delineation, etc.
Proficient ability to coordinate with agency regulators and understand requirements.
Well-developed ability to make technical computations and calculations involving the application of engineering principles and understanding plans and specifications.
Highly effective interpersonal and communication skills when interacting with others, expressing ideas effectively and professionally to an engineering and non-engineering audience.
Demonstrated high-level of self-leadership with attention to detail, multi-tasking, and prioritization of responsibilities in a dynamic work environment.
Works independently with minimal oversight and provides guidance and leadership to junior team or project members, with strict adherence to QA/QC.
Highly proficient with technical writing, software, technology, math principles, spreadsheets, and tools.
Adept at coordinating technical matters with public and private groups.
Well-developed critical thinking and problem-solving skills required to apply technical knowledge to reach conclusions from modeling results, data collation, statistical analysis and arriving at the most effective, economical, and logical solution.
Occasional travel may be required depending on project-specific requirements.

Preferred Qualifications:

Experience and familiarity with the Clark County Regional Flood Control District’s Hydrologic Criteria and Drainage Design Manual and local stormwater design practices.
Experience working with municipalities, transportation agencies, or local stakeholders in the Las Vegas metro area.

Compensation:

Expected Salary: $102,200 - $182,200

WSP USA is providing the compensation range that the company in good faith believes it might pay and offer for this position, based on the successful applicant’s education, experience, knowledge, skills, abilities in addition to internal equity and specific geographic location. WSP USA reserves the right to ultimately pay more or less than the posted range and offer additional benefits and other compensation, depending on circumstances not related to an applicant’s sex or other status protected by local, state, and/or federal law.

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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.