# Principal Water Resources Engineer

**Company**: WSP
**Location**: BC, Canada
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $151,200 - $200,300
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Consulting

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## Description

As a Principal Water Resources Engineer at WSP, you will bring technical leadership to impactful projects shaping water systems and resilient communities across British Columbia.

Your responsibilities will include:

- Leading hydrotechnical design to support safe, climate-resilient infrastructure across Western Canada

- Driving business growth through strategic planning, client relationships, and expanding project opportunities

- Mentoring and growing talent across all experience levels, strengthening team capability and succession

- Overseeing watershed, hydrologic, and hydraulic modelling that informs major municipal and provincial decisions

- Providing senior technical guidance on water resources assessments within multidisciplinary project teams

- Acting as a Project Director overseeing project decisions related to risk, quality, safety, and client management

- Championing innovative tools and modelling approaches to enhance sustainability and project outcomes

- Collaborating across engineering, environmental, and planning disciplines to deliver integrated solutions

To be successful in this role, you will need:

- A degree in Civil or Environmental Engineering, Hydrology, water resources, or a related discipline

- Registration (or eligibility within 6 months) as a Professional Engineer with Engineers and Geoscientists British Columbia (EGBC)

- 15+ years of experience in consulting or related experience

- A strong record of client relationship development and strategic growth planning

- Deep technical expertise demonstrated through delivery of complex water infrastructure projects

- Proficiency in hydrologic and hydraulic modelling tools (e.g., HEC-RAS, MIKE, PCSWMM, GIS-based workflows)

- Experience in flood mitigation, river engineering, drainage systems, or watershed studies

- Knowledge of BC regulatory frameworks, permitting processes, and hydrotechnical design practices

In terms of compensation, the salary range for this position is:

- AB, BC, NT, NU, SK & YT: $151,200 - $200,300

- MB & ON: $137,900 - $187,900

- NB, NL, NS, PE & QC: $136,500 - $181,300

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## Skills

### Required
- Civil Engineering
- Environmental Engineering
- Hydrology
- water resources
- HEC-RAS
- MIKE
- PCSWMM
- GIS

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