Carolinas Water Resources Practice Lead

About the role

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.

Responsibilities

• Set the tone for culture, drive operational excellence, expand strategic client relationships, and serve as a visible water leader in our industry.
• Participate in the delivery of transformational projects for municipalities, agencies, developers, and institutions in the Carolinas.
• Make an impact on our team and on the clients and communities we serve.
• Lead diverse teams and inspire cross-functional collaboration.
• Mentor and develop talent, lead hiring plans, and succession strategies to strengthen the bench.
• Foster employee engagement, diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives.
• 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.
• 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/no go decision making for practice area opportunities to align investment of business development dollars with growth strategy.

Requirements

• 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.
• 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.