# Senior Water & Wastewater Treatment Lead

**Company**: WSP
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $125,400 - $168,900
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Consulting

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## Description

We are seeking a Senior Water & Wastewater Treatment Lead to provide technical leadership, mentor emerging talent, collaborate with multidisciplinary teams, and partner with clients to solve complex treatment challenges that protect public health and the environment.

The successful candidate will serve as the technical lead for water and wastewater treatment services in Atlantic Canada, providing strategic direction, technical excellence, mentorship, and project leadership across the region.

Key responsibilities include:

- Leading the planning, design, and delivery of complex municipal and industrial water and wastewater treatment projects

- Providing senior technical leadership for treatment process design, facility upgrades, optimization studies, and capital infrastructure programs

- Mentoring and developing engineers, designers, and technical professionals

- Building and strengthening trusted client relationships

- Directing multidisciplinary teams through all project phases

- Reviewing and approving technical reports, specifications, calculations, and design deliverables

- Supporting strategic pursuits, proposals, and business development initiatives

- Championing sustainable and innovative treatment solutions

Requirements:

- Bachelor's degree in Civil, Environmental, Chemical, Mechanical or related Engineering discipline

- Professional Engineer (P.Eng.) designation in Canada and eligibility to practice in Nova Scotia

- Ideally 15+ years of progressive experience in the water and wastewater industry

- Extensive experience leading the planning, design, and delivery of water and wastewater treatment facilities

- Strong expertise in treatment process evaluation, process optimization, and infrastructure planning

- Proven experience leading multidisciplinary teams and coordinating complex infrastructure projects

- Demonstrated ability to provide technical mentorship and leadership within multidisciplinary engineering teams

- Excellent technical writing, communication, and stakeholder engagement skills

Benefits:

- Proudly Canadian – we are a Top 100 Employer in Canada for 2026

- A global community of brilliant minds – your next idea, mentor, or opportunity is always within reach

- Limitless opportunities start here

- Flexible work, real balance – we recognize the importance of balance in our lives and encourage you to prioritize the balance in yours

Compensation:

- $125,400 - $168,900

## Skills

### Required
- Civil Engineering
- Environmental Engineering
- Chemical Engineering
- Mechanical Engineering
- Water Treatment
- Wastewater Treatment
- Project Management
- Leadership
- Communication

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