Principal Conveyance Engineer - Civil Engineering

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The Opportunity

Design What Comes Next

Lead the delivery of critical municipal water, wastewater, and stormwater infrastructure that helps communities thrive. As a Principal Conveyance Engineer, you'll provide technical leadership on complex conveyance projects across Ontario and Canada, guiding multidisciplinary teams through planning, design, and delivery while helping shape resilient and sustainable infrastructure solutions. This is an opportunity to influence major projects, mentor future leaders, strengthen client relationships, and drive engineering excellence across a diverse portfolio of conveyance initiatives.

Your Impact

• Lead the technical planning, design, and delivery of complex municipal water, wastewater, and stormwater conveyance projects.
• Provide technical leadership and direction to multidisciplinary teams delivering large-scale infrastructure solutions.
• Oversee the development and review of engineering calculations, technical reports, specifications, drawings, and cost estimates.
• Establish and champion quality assurance and quality control practices, ensuring technical excellence across all project deliverables.
• Mentor and develop engineers, designers, and technologists by sharing technical expertise and fostering professional growth.
• Solve complex engineering challenges through innovative, practical, and cost-effective solutions that deliver value to clients and communities.
• Support project pursuits, proposal development, and business development activities while strengthening relationships with clients, agencies, contractors, and industry partners.
• Contribute expert guidance throughout the full project lifecycle, including feasibility studies, Municipal Class Environmental Assessments, detailed design, procurement, and construction support.

The Skills That Set You Apart

• Bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering or a related engineering discipline.
• Professional Engineer (P.Eng.) designation and registration with Professional Engineers Ontario.
• 12-15 years of experience delivering municipal water, wastewater, or stormwater infrastructure projects.
• Deep expertise in the planning, design, and delivery of watermains, trunk sewers, forcemains, pump stations, outfalls, pipelines, and related conveyance infrastructure.
• Demonstrated experience serving as a technical lead on complex, multidisciplinary infrastructure projects.
• Strong background preparing and reviewing technical reports, contract drawings, specifications, and cost estimates.
• Experience leading QA/QC reviews and providing technical oversight and mentorship to project teams.
• Knowledge of trenchless technologies, environmental approval processes, hydraulic modelling concepts, and industry-standard engineering software.

Why Choose WSP?

Why Choose WSP? We exist to shape communities to advance humanity. The brightest engineers, advisors and scientists from across the globe call WSP home.

• 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.

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Compensation

AB, BC, NT, NU, SK & YT: $147,500 - $195,400
MB & ON: $136,400 - $184,600

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

Disclosure:
The final salary awarded for this role may vary from the above range based on several factors including, but not limited to, relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills and seniority. The wage range provided in this job posting may be subject to change for business purposes.

Ready to Shape the Future?

Help deliver the infrastructure that communities rely on every day. Bring your technical expertise, leadership, and vision to projects that create lasting impact across Ontario and Canada. Join a team where innovation, collaboration, and professional growth come together to redefine what's possible.At WSP, we exist to shape communities to advance humanity.

It's why we bring people together who are wired to solve complex challenges - engineers, scientists, advisors, and technical experts who are driven by a common passion - to redefine what's possible and shape what comes next. We are Visioneers.

As one of the world's leading professional services firms, we partner with clients across transportation, infrastructure, environment, buildings, energy, water, mining and metals. We pair deep local knowledge with global insights to pioneer solutions designed to leave a lasting, positive impact.

At WSP, you'll join a community of brilliant minds that push boundaries every day - applying deep expertise and fuelling innovation to help create a more connected and resilient future. Here, your ideas are valued, your growth is supported, and you are encouraged to bring your authentic self to work. We empower our people to collaborate across disciplines, challenge the status quo, and shape a career with purpose.

Join us.

Please Note:

Health and Safety is a core paramount value of WSP. Given the importance of keeping one another safe it is expected that you comply with our Health, Safety & Environment (HSE) policy at all times as well as client HSE policies when working at client locations. Full details here .

Some safety-sensitive positions involve fieldwork and may include work in a variety of environmental conditions, such as remote or isolated areas, working alone, and in inclement weather (within safe and reasonable limits).

WSP welcomes and encourages applications from people with disabilities. Accommodations are available on request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process.

WSP is committed to the principles of employment equity. Only the candidates selected will be contacted.

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