Technical Director - Hydrogeologist

Job Description

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