New Jersey/New York – Senior Project Manager / Team Leader – Water & Wastewater
Job Description
Lead Projects. Develop Talent. Deliver Results.
WSP is seeking a Senior Project Manager / Team Leader to support the continued growth of our NY/NJ water business. This role is ideal for a leader who enjoys building teams, improving project delivery, and helping create a high-performing organization.
You will lead major infrastructure programs while helping recruit, mentor, and develop the next generation of water professionals — with real influence over how the practice operates and grows.
Why This Role Is Different
The NJ/NY market presents a sustained pipeline of complex municipal infrastructure work — driven by NJDEP compliance programs, combined sewer overflow consent decrees, capital improvement mandates across municipal utilities and sewerage authorities, and federal investment through EPA and BIL grant programs. WSP is growing its presence in this market and needs strong project leaders to deliver on that commitment.
- Opportunity to influence operational performance across a growing practice
- Significant involvement in team development and succession planning
- Leadership visibility and direct collaboration with regional management
- Career path toward Area Manager, Practice Leader, or Regional Operations Leadership
What You'll Do
- Lead planning, design, permitting, and construction-phase services for major water and wastewater infrastructure projects
- Manage project scope, schedule, budget, quality, and risk across concurrent programs
- Develop and mentor project managers, engineers, and technical staff
- Support recruiting and workforce growth initiatives as the practice expands
- Strengthen relationships with municipal utilities, authorities, and public-sector clients
- Support strategic pursuits, proposals, and account growth
- Drive project delivery excellence and establish operational best practices
Ideal Candidate
- PE license in NJ or NY required, or ability to obtain through reciprocity
- 10–20+ years of municipal water/wastewater consulting experience
- Strong project management and leadership experience on complex infrastructure programs
- Demonstrated success managing multidisciplinary teams
- Familiarity with NJDEP permitting, consent decree environments, and municipal capital programs preferred
- Business development experience and existing client relationships are highly desirable
Compensation:
Expected Salary (all locations): $119,600- $213,200
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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WSP USA is the U.S. operating company of WSP, one of the world's leading engineering and professional services firms. Dedicated to serving local communities, we are engineers, planners, technical experts, strategic advisors and construction management professionals. WSP USA designs lasting solutions in the buildings, transportation, energy, water and environment markets. With more than 15,000 employees in over 300 offices across the U.S., we partner with our clients to help communities prosper.
WSP provides a flexible and agile workplace model while meeting client needs. Employees are also afforded a comprehensive suite of benefits including medical, dental, vision, disability, life, and retirement savings focused on providing health and financial stability throughout the employee’s career.
At WSP, we want to give our employees the challenges they seek to grow their careers and knowledge base. Your daily contributions to your team will be essential in meeting client objectives, goals and challenges. Are you ready to get started?
WSP USA (and all of its U.S. companies) is an Equal Opportunity Employer Race/Age/Color/Religion/Sex/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity/National Origin/Disability or Protected Veteran Status.
The selected candidate must be authorized to work in the United States.
NOTICE TO THIRD PARTY AGENCIES:
WSP does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruiters, employment agencies, or other staffing services. Unsolicited resumes include any resume or hiring document sent to WSP in the absence of a signed Service Agreement where WSP has expressly requested recruitment/staffing services specific to the position at hand. Any unsolicited resumes, including those submitted to hiring managers or other business leaders, will become the property of WSP and WSP will have the right to hire that candidate without reservation – no fee or other compensation will be owed or paid to the recruiter, employment agency, or other staffing service.