# Principal Waste-to-Energy Engineer

**Company**: WSP
**Location**: Calgary, AB
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $147,500 - $195,400
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Consulting

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## Description

As a Principal Waste-to-Energy Engineer at WSP, you will provide technical leadership across the project lifecycle, helping clients develop and deliver solutions that convert municipal, industrial, agricultural, biomass, and organic waste into valuable energy products.

You will serve as a subject matter expert and trusted client advisor within WSP's Energy, Resources and Industrial team, supporting projects from feasibility and technology selection through detailed design, construction, commissioning, optimization, and operational improvement.

Key responsibilities include:

- Leading the technical delivery of Waste-to-Energy and energy recovery projects

- Shaping process designs by leading reviews of mass and energy balances, process flow diagrams, piping and instrumentation diagrams, and system integration

- Guiding the selection and integration of thermal, biological, and advanced waste conversion technologies

- Evaluating major process and power-generation equipment

- Advancing innovative solutions that improve plant performance, reliability, efficiency, environmental compliance, and resource recovery

- Leading technical aspects of strategic pursuits, proposals, feasibility studies, owner's engineering assignments, due diligence reviews, and independent engineering engagements

- Partnering with clients, technology providers, developers, utilities, municipalities, financial institutions, and industrial organizations to identify opportunities and grow the Waste-to-Energy practice

- Mentoring multidisciplinary engineering teams while providing technical oversight, quality reviews, commissioning support, troubleshooting, performance testing, and facility optimization.

Requirements include:

- 15+ years of experience in engineering, operations, technology development, consulting, or project delivery within the energy, industrial, or process sectors

- 10+ years of direct experience with Waste-to-Energy, biomass power generation, renewable fuels, anaerobic digestion, waste processing, or other heavy thermal industrial facilities

- Deep understanding of thermal and biological waste conversion technologies

- Experience with process simulation and thermal modelling tools, process design reviews, and the specification and evaluation of major process and power-generation equipment

- Knowledge of permitting, environmental compliance, industrial emissions regulations, and the integration of Waste-to-Energy facilities with existing industrial, utility, district energy, or process facilities.

Benefits include:

- Competitive salary ($147,500 - $195,400)

- Flexible work arrangements

- Opportunities for growth and professional development

- Recognition as a Top 100 Employer in Canada.

## Skills

### Required
- Waste-to-Energy
- energy recovery
- thermal modelling
- process simulation
- environmental compliance

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