Senior Engineer

The Opportunity:

WSP is currently seeking an experienced Senior Engineer, with a strong background in municipal and land development engineering.  The position is available in our Calgary, Edmonton, Lethbridge, or Red Deer offices. Project work contributing to projects from small to large scale throughout Alberta, and potentially across Canada, and the Americas. This opportunity presents the successful candidate with a chance to work primarily on engineering assignments with minimal administrative or management functions. 

This role is ideal for a senior engineering professional who thrives working on complex municipal infrastructure projects for public clients, land developers and at industrial facilities while directly engaging with clients and approval agencies. The successful candidate will provide senior technical review and leadership, mentoring junior professionals and technical staff through the project life cycle from planning and pre-feasibility study to preliminary and detailed engineering design and construction support. 

Why choose WSP?

• We value and are committed to upholding a culture of inclusion and belonging
• Our Flexible Work Policy – we recognize the importance of balance in our lives and encourage you to prioritize the balance in yours. We will support you on and off the job so you can be fully present in both your work and home lives.
• A Canadian success story - we're proud to wear the red and white of this beautiful country and show the world what Canada has to offer.
• Enhance the world around you - from the environment to the highways, to the buildings and the terrain, WSP is the fabric of Canada.
• Outstanding career opportunities - we're growing and pushing ourselves every day to be greater than yesterday - we're open to your ideas and trying new things.
• A phenomenal collaborative culture and a workforce filled with genuinely good people who are doing humbly important work. Come find out for yourself what it's like to be a part of our journey.

We offer attractive pay, flexible work options, a great corporate culture, comprehensive and employee-focused benefits including virtual healthcare and a wellness platform as well as great savings programs, and a clear vision for the future.

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What you can expect to do here:

• Manage and deliver technical engineering work on municipal infrastructure systems ranging from water supply, pumping, storage, transmission and distribution, sewage collection, pumping, transmission and primary / secondary treatment, stormwater planning and analysis for minor / major systems including stormwater management facilities, streets and pedestrian networks,
• Technical writing for reports, manuals and technical memos.
• Client and stakeholder liaison, assistance to project manager with approvals
• Coordination with other disciplines including mechanical, electrical, structural, architectural, instrumentation and controls. 
• Providing technical leadership to technicians and junior professionals 
• Quality assurance reviews of professional drawings and documents
• Understanding of multi-jurisdictional engineering standards and guidelines
• Develop and implement innovative solutions.  
• Take technical and management responsibility of tasks and delegate effectively to project engineers, technologists and design teams
• Interacting directly with various personnel in our Client's organizations, including face to face meetings. 
• Other related duties as assigned 

What you'll bring to WSP:

• Minimum 15 years of technical engineering experience in an engineering consulting environment
• Bachelor's degree in Civil/Environmental Engineering or related engineering field required
• Registration as a P.Eng. in Alberta. Registration in Ontario, NWT/Nunavut, British Columbia and Saskatchewan are considered assets
• Previous experience collaborating with multi-discipline project teams  
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with demonstrated ability to conduct effective presentations and prepare written reports and documents
• Experience delivering technical and business presentations  
• Ability to work independently and in diverse teams
• Experience writing technical memos and reports
• Ability to mentor staff