Senior Surface Water Engineer-Las Vegas

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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