Local Business Leader: Environmental Water and Civil Ground Engineering and Materials

Our Business

WSP is a global leader in environmental consulting with world-class expertise in environmental, social and governance (ESG), climate resiliency & sustainability (CRS), and earth sciences. Combined we have over 20,000 multidisciplinary professionals worldwide collaborating daily to protect and conserve natural landscapes, create firm foundations for communities to stand on, and champion sustainable development to combat climate change.

As part of the team, you will have access to an unparalleled network of resources and endless opportunities to collaborate on exciting projects with diverse teammates from across the globe. 

This Opportunity

WSP has an exciting career opportunity for an Earth and Environment (E&E) Local Business Leader (LBL) for our Environmental Water and Civil Ground Engineering and Materials group in the Texas/Louisiana Region.  Within the local geographic markets, the LBL will lead business development and service delivery through successful execution of WSP USA’s strategy and the Texas/Louisiana E&E Strategy, focused on our four pillars of success: Clients, Expertise, People & Culture and Operational Excellence. The LBL is a hybrid role, providing operational leadership while remaining engaged with projects and client delivery.

We offer excellent career growth, a friendly, flexible work environment and a variety of challenging projects. We have a talented staff and work on some of the most exciting projects across the West. We offer the opportunity to mentor talented young engineers in a supportive and flexible atmosphere where the focus is teamwork, quality and excellent client service.  Our ideal candidate has strong technical capabilities, solid client relationship skills, a commitment to delivering a quality product and an interest in a leadership role.
 
You will be engaged in exciting projects across the U.S. ranging from FEMA Risk MAP (Risk Mapping, Assessment and Planning) activities, transportation drainage and other similar water resources projects.  Our professionals are networked across the WSP organization and are active in technical organizations advancing our practice.

 

Operational Excellence

• Responsible for delivering all operational metrics across a team of over 60-80 consultants that provide environmental water, site civil, ground engineering and materials testing services
• Optimizes the client and employee experience 
• Focuses on innovation and enhancing health & safety, quality and sustainable standards
• Responsible for the development and execution of strategic business plans for markets and sectors in Texas/Louisiana
• Collaborates with regional leadership to strategically drive the business, manage project performance, oversee overhead expenditures, and meet operational financial metrics
• Coordinate with local internal and external client account managers to drive sales and resource allocation in geographic area of responsibility
• Provides commercial risk management and governance in the execution of defined delegation of authority.

 People & Culture 

• Works with the Regional Leader to attract the best industry talent and grow the business by fostering a work environment that is collaborative, values inclusion and diversity and invites broad, creative thinking – crafting a more attractive place to work, grow and thrive
• Emphasizes employee development and mentoring culture to create a differentiated employee work experience and accelerates employee growth
• Inspires, motivates and promotes the best of WSP to our clients and communities to ensure strong employee engagement and morale

 Clients

• Sets clients at the center for all we do, helping them be “Future Ready” through sustainable planning and design, and prepared for emerging market disrupters
• Brings an expanded view and integrated response to complex challenges by leveraging WSP’S full suite of offerings across all end markets, championing a “one WSP” client culture
• Utilizes our extended reach across offices, regions and the globe to pursue opportunities that foster and expand new and innovative client delivery 
• Deploys our unique expertise and perspective to create new value for clients and provides civic and industry leadership within the local market geography 
• Manages client coordination and cross-selling efforts across all WSP business lines in coordination with Region, National Business Lines, Sector and strategic growth team 
• Has a deep understanding of addressable markets in the local geography, drives performance of the business and strategically grows our market share to ensure WSP is a preferred provid