# Principal Consultant, Environmental Acoustics

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

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## Description

Join our Environmental Management team as a Principal Consultant - Environmental Acoustics in our Vancouver, BC office.

Bring your technical expertise, client relationships and consulting leadership to a role where you can help establish and grow environmental noise services within our BC/Yukon Air Quality team.

**Your Impact**

- Establish and grow our BC/Yukon environmental noise services, working with the Air Quality Group Manager to develop a focused growth plan, identify priority clients and sectors, and align technical resources with the developing workload.

- Develop client relationships and win new and repeat work, identifying client needs, pursuing opportunities, preparing scopes and fees, and leading proposals that build a sustainable portfolio of assignments.

- Lead and deliver environmental noise assessments, including baseline monitoring, source characterization, predictive modelling, receptor impact assessment and evaluation of mitigation options for construction and operations.

- Prepare and provide senior technical review of reports and regulatory submissions, ensuring assessment methods, assumptions, data quality, limitations and conclusions are clearly documented and defensible.

- Serve as a trusted advisor to clients and project teams, explaining findings, supporting regulatory and stakeholder discussions, and developing practical responses to environmental noise concerns.

- Manage and direct projects from proposal through closeout, establishing realistic scopes, budgets, schedules and resource plans, monitoring financial performance, and addressing technical risks and scope changes early.

- Uphold WSP’s safety culture and Life Saving Rules, including during site visits, monitoring programs and other project activities.

**The Skills That Set You Apart**

- A degree in acoustical engineering, mechanical engineering, environmental engineering, physics, or a related discipline.

- 10+ years of directly relevant experience in environmental noise assessment, including substantial consulting experience and increasing responsibility for technical leadership, client engagement and project delivery.

- A relevant professional designation, or eligibility to obtain one, is required. Engineering applicants must be registered, or eligible for registration, as a Professional Engineer (P.Eng.) with Engineers and Geoscientists BC.

- Demonstrated success winning new work or expanding existing client assignments, including identifying opportunities, developing scopes and fees, and leading proposals.

- Demonstrated expertise in environmental noise prediction and modelling using industry-standard software, with sound judgment regarding assessment methods, model inputs, assumptions, limitations and interpretation.

- Experience designing and interpreting environmental noise monitoring programs,

- Strong understanding of Canadian regulations, guidelines and approval requirements related to environmental noise, with experience supporting regulatory reviews and responding to technical comments.

- Proven ability to manage complex projects or multidisciplinary technical work packages, balancing technical quality, client expectations, budgets, schedules and resources.

- Strong technical writing, proposal-development and communication skills, with the ability to explain complex findings clearly to clients, regulators and other stakeholders.

**Why Choose WSP?**

- 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. Whether it’s across the country or around the globe, we help you tailor your role to match your ambition , because your growth drives ours.

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

**Compensation**

- AB, BC, NT, NU, SK & YT: $147,500 - $195,400

- MB & ON: $134,600 - $184,600

- NB, NL, NS, PEI & QC: $133,200 - $176,900

## Skills

### Required
- acoustical engineering
- mechanical engineering
- environmental engineering
- physics
- environmental noise assessment
- consulting
- client engagement
- project delivery
- technical leadership
- proposal development
- regulatory submissions
- environmental noise prediction
- modelling
- monitoring programs
- Canadian regulations
- approval requirements

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