Technical Director - Hydrogeologist

Overview

This Opportunity

WSP is currently initiating a search for a Technical Director - Hydrogeologist for our Redmond, WA or Tigard, OR offices or other locations in the Pacific Northwest. Bring your hydrogeology leadership to complex, meaningful work—Superfund and RCRA sites, ports and transportation, water supply resilience, and PFAS/PCBs characterization and treatment. You’ll lead multi-disciplinary teams, shape strategy with key clients, and mentor the next generation of groundwater practitioners while leveraging the depth of a global environmental practice.

• Own the technical vision for groundwater and surface water investigations—CSMs, well design and maintenance, dewatering design, aquifer testing/design, analytical & numerical modeling (e.g., MODFLOW, Leapfrog), data interpretation, and lines of evidence development for remedy selection. Experienced providing technical review for documents, ensuring internal quality requirements for deliverables are met, and preparing technical deliverables and plans with a high degree of complexity.
• Direct field programs (borings/wells, step drawdown & constant rate pumping tests, tracer tests, high resolution site characterization) with a strong health & safety culture.
• Lead client delivery across remediation, industrial, municipal, power and transportation sectors; translate risk, compliance, and schedule drivers into actionable plans and budgets. Project management and regulatory agency communications.
• Win the work you want to do—shape capture strategies, lead proposals/interviews, and grow key accounts focused in the PNW and beyond. Develop a client base for providing high-level hydrogeologic and environmental services including identifying additional business development opportunities in the public or private sector.
• Grow people—coach early and mid-career staff, maintain quality standards, run design and data interpretation reviews, and be part of a collaborative, inclusive team culture.
• Advance innovation—apply 3D subsurface/CSM workflows, data visualization, and uncertainty/decision analysis to improve outcomes and value.

• 12+ years in applied hydrogeology with progressive leadership on complex remediation and/or water resources programs.
• Professional registration (LHG/CHG/PG or equivalent); MS+ in Hydrogeology/Geology or related field preferred.
• Proven client facing leadership—program management, scope/budget ownership, risk management, and stakeholder engagement (regulators, PRPs, municipalities).
• Strong self-leadership and interpersonal communication skills with the ability to effectively, persuasively, and tactfully interact with employees at all levels of the organization.
• Strength in one or more of: contaminant fate/transport, hydrogeochemical modeling, remedy design/optimization, MAR/ASR, or source zone mass removal.
• Understanding and proficiency in one or more state-of-practice tools used for data analysis, groundwater modeling and subsurface visualization (e.g., MODFLOW family, MT3D/RT3D, FEFLOW, Leapfrog, EVS, Rock Works, or similar).
• Excellent technical writing and the ability to distill complexity into crisp, defensible recommendations.
• Occasional travel may be required depending on project-specific requirements.

• Superfund/RCRA consent order experience; airport/port or rail corridors; industrial facilities and brownfields; PFAS and/or chlorinated solvent portfolios.
• Strong experience with water quality and geochemistry is highly desired.
• Experience integrating geotechnical, geochemical, and surface water disciplines on corridor or facility programs.
• Thought leadership (publications, panels, short courses) and mentorship track record.

WSP provides a comprehensive suite of benefits focused on providing health and financial stability throughout the employee’s career. These benefits include coverage related to medical, dental, vision, disability, and life; retirement savings; paid sick leave; paid vacation (or other personal time); paid parental leave; and paid time off for bereavement, voting, and/or attendance at naturalization proceedings.

Expected Salary (all locations): $120,600 - $215,500

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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