Carolinas Water Resources Practice Lead
WSP USA, Jacksonville, FL, United States
This Opportunity
WSP USA, Inc. is seeking a Carolinas Water Resources Practice Lead to accelerate our growth and advance our performance in water resources across North Carolina and South Carolina. This role provides leadership for a multi‑office Water Resources team across North and South Carolina, supporting municipal, agency, and private‑sector clients on complex flood resilience, stormwater, and coastal projects. Our Water Resources practice area encompasses drainage and stormwater management, green infrastructure design, coastal and fluvial resiliency, stormwater conveyance, and site civil design.
You will set the tone for culture, drive operational excellence, expand strategic client relationships, and serve as a visible water leader in our industry. In this role, you will be part of the delivery of transformational projects for municipalities, agencies, developers, and institutions in the Carolinas. You will have the opportunity to make an impact on our team and on the clients and communities we serve.
Your Impact
People & Culture
Champion a positive, inclusive, high‑performance, and low‑ego workplace culture.
Mentor and develop talent, lead hiring plans, and succession strategies to strengthen the bench.
Grow cross‑office workshare and collaboration as we move to a practice‑based organizational structure that mobilizes the best talent in our organization to our local clients.
Foster employee engagement, diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives.
Operational Excellence
Deliver budgeted year‑over‑year organic growth within the Practice Area.
Achieve margin and project performance targets through proactive risk management, disciplined delivery, and consistent QA/QC across multi‑disciplinary teams.
Optimize resource planning across offices.
Strategic Growth & Business Development
Craft and implement targeted market growth strategies, aligned with our regional and global water growth strategy.
Strengthen strategic accounts and drive exceptional client care within the Carolinas water resources practice area.
Build and maintain a healthy, high‑quality 4:1 pipeline that reflects deliberate client targeting, strong positioning, and efficient use of pursuit resources.
Provide end‑to‑end pursuit leadership for key opportunities: own capture plans, positioning, and win strategies.
Provide go
o‑go decision making for practice area opportunities to align investment of business development dollars with growth strategy.
Who You Are
Required Qualifications
Demonstrated ability to lead diverse teams and inspire cross‑functional collaboration.
Bachelor’s degree in civil engineering or related field.
15 years of post‑education experience in water resources engineering, with at least 10 years of related experience in the Carolinas.
Professional Engineering License (PE) in North Carolina or South Carolina.
Candidate must have strong technical writing and communication skills.
Advanced proficiency with engineering principles, practices, process, design/build, standard of care and project work‑related issues.
Excellent leadership and interpersonal communication skills with the ability to effectively interact with employees at all levels of the organization.
Proven history of upholding workplace safety and ability to abide by WSP’s health, safety and drug/alcohol and harassment policies.
Travel within the Carolinas region, with potential for travel beyond region.
Preferred Qualifications
Master’s degree in engineering or business management.
Professional Engineering License (PE) in multi‑states.
At WSP USA, Inc. we are dedicated to building a diverse and inclusive workplace for our employees. If you are excited about this role, but your experience may not align perfectly with every qualification in the position description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may just be the right candidate for this or other opportunities.
At this time, WSP USA, Inc., will not sponsor a new applicant for work authorization.
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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.
www.wsp.com
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.
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WSP USA, Inc. is seeking a Carolinas Water Resources Practice Lead to accelerate our growth and advance our performance in water resources across North Carolina and South Carolina. This role provides leadership for a multi‑office Water Resources team across North and South Carolina, supporting municipal, agency, and private‑sector clients on complex flood resilience, stormwater, and coastal projects. Our Water Resources practice area encompasses drainage and stormwater management, green infrastructure design, coastal and fluvial resiliency, stormwater conveyance, and site civil design.
You will set the tone for culture, drive operational excellence, expand strategic client relationships, and serve as a visible water leader in our industry. In this role, you will be part of the delivery of transformational projects for municipalities, agencies, developers, and institutions in the Carolinas. You will have the opportunity to make an impact on our team and on the clients and communities we serve.
Your Impact
People & Culture
Champion a positive, inclusive, high‑performance, and low‑ego workplace culture.
Mentor and develop talent, lead hiring plans, and succession strategies to strengthen the bench.
Grow cross‑office workshare and collaboration as we move to a practice‑based organizational structure that mobilizes the best talent in our organization to our local clients.
Foster employee engagement, diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives.
Operational Excellence
Deliver budgeted year‑over‑year organic growth within the Practice Area.
Achieve margin and project performance targets through proactive risk management, disciplined delivery, and consistent QA/QC across multi‑disciplinary teams.
Optimize resource planning across offices.
Strategic Growth & Business Development
Craft and implement targeted market growth strategies, aligned with our regional and global water growth strategy.
Strengthen strategic accounts and drive exceptional client care within the Carolinas water resources practice area.
Build and maintain a healthy, high‑quality 4:1 pipeline that reflects deliberate client targeting, strong positioning, and efficient use of pursuit resources.
Provide end‑to‑end pursuit leadership for key opportunities: own capture plans, positioning, and win strategies.
Provide go
o‑go decision making for practice area opportunities to align investment of business development dollars with growth strategy.
Who You Are
Required Qualifications
Demonstrated ability to lead diverse teams and inspire cross‑functional collaboration.
Bachelor’s degree in civil engineering or related field.
15 years of post‑education experience in water resources engineering, with at least 10 years of related experience in the Carolinas.
Professional Engineering License (PE) in North Carolina or South Carolina.
Candidate must have strong technical writing and communication skills.
Advanced proficiency with engineering principles, practices, process, design/build, standard of care and project work‑related issues.
Excellent leadership and interpersonal communication skills with the ability to effectively interact with employees at all levels of the organization.
Proven history of upholding workplace safety and ability to abide by WSP’s health, safety and drug/alcohol and harassment policies.
Travel within the Carolinas region, with potential for travel beyond region.
Preferred Qualifications
Master’s degree in engineering or business management.
Professional Engineering License (PE) in multi‑states.
At WSP USA, Inc. we are dedicated to building a diverse and inclusive workplace for our employees. If you are excited about this role, but your experience may not align perfectly with every qualification in the position description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may just be the right candidate for this or other opportunities.
At this time, WSP USA, Inc., will not sponsor a new applicant for work authorization.
#LI-MF1
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.
www.wsp.com
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.
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