Senior Engineer

Join WSP in Canada as a Senior Engineer. We’re looking for 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, and involves project work ranging from small to large scale throughout Alberta and potentially across Canada and the Americas. You will work primarily on engineering assignments with minimal administrative or management functions. The Opportunity This role is ideal for a senior engineering professional who thrives on complex municipal infrastructure projects for public clients, land developers, and industrial facilities while directly engaging with clients and approval agencies. You 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 design and construction support. Why choose WSP? We value and are committed to upholding a culture of inclusion and belonging. Our Flexible Work Policy recognizes the importance of balance and encourages you to prioritize work and home life. We’re a Canadian success story that proudly showcases what Canada has to offer. WSP enhances the world around us—from the environment to highways, buildings, and terrain. Outstanding career opportunities that grow and push us daily. A phenomenal collaborative culture filled with genuinely good people doing impactful work. What you will do Manage and deliver technical engineering work on municipal infrastructure systems ranging from water supply, pumping, storage, transmission, and distribution, sewage collection, pumping, transmission, and treatment, stormwater planning and analysis for minor/major systems including stormwater management facilities, streets, and pedestrian networks. Produce technical writing for reports, manuals, and technical memos. Serve as client and stakeholder liaison, assisting the project manager with approvals. Coordinate with other disciplines—mechanical, electrical, structural, architectural, instrumentation, and controls. Provide technical leadership to technicians and junior professionals. Conduct quality assurance reviews of professional drawings and documents. Understand 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. Interact directly with various personnel in client organizations, including face‑to‑face meetings. Perform other related duties as assigned. What you’ll bring Minimum 15 years of technical engineering experience in an engineering consulting environment. Bachelor’s degree in Civil/Environmental Engineering or a related field. Registration as a P.Eng. in Alberta (registration in Ontario, NWT/Nunavut, British Columbia, or Saskatchewan considered assets). Experience collaborating with multi‑discipline project teams. Strong written and verbal communication skills, including effective presentations and written reports. Experience delivering technical and business presentations. Ability to work independently and in diverse teams. Experience writing technical memos and reports. Ability to mentor staff. About WSP WSP is one of the world’s leading professional services firms, with a purpose to future‑proof our cities and environments. We have over 65,000 team members worldwide, and in Canada more than 12,000, covering everything from environmental remediation to urban planning, iconic building design, sustainable transportation, renewable power, and more. At WSP you: Value our people and our reputation. Are locally dedicated with international scale. Are future‑focused and challenge the status quo. Foster collaboration in everything we do. Operate within an empowering culture that holds us accountable. Health & Safety Health and Safety is a core value at WSP. You are expected to comply with our HSE policy and client HSE policies when working at client locations. Offices include the expectation to perform key physical tasks; you must be able to work in various environmental conditions, remote or isolated settings, alone, and in inclement weather within safe and reasonable limits. Equal Employment Opportunity WSP welcomes and encourages applications from people with disabilities. Accommodations are available on request for candidates in all selection stages. WSP is committed to employment equity. Only selected candidates will be contacted. WSP does not accept unsolicited resumes from agencies. For more information, please READ THE FULL POLICY. #J-18808-Ljbffr