National Leader - Water Utility Infrastructure
About The Position
A respected engineering firm is seeking a national practice leader to build, lead, and grow its water utility infrastructure practice in the United States and internationally. The role oversees practice operations, develops a multidisciplinary team, provides technical leadership, and serves as a trusted advisor to clients. It offers significant influence over strategy, team development, and practice growth. The leader will direct day-to-day operations, staffing, workflow, utilization, forecasting, project performance, and profitability. They will mentor team leaders, engineers, and project managers; lead complex drinking water, wastewater, and stormwater work; and oversee proposals, fees, contracts, project delivery, quality, and client relationships. The role is based onsite at one of the listed design center locations.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Civil or Environmental Engineering.
- Professional Engineer (PE) license in one of the United States.
- 20 or more years of utility infrastructure engineering experience.
- Strong background in water and wastewater treatment facilities, distribution and collection systems, and lift stations.
- Proven history of high client satisfaction and repeat work in the United States and internationally.
- Confident, positive communication at all organizational levels.
- Demonstrated success leading, mentoring, and developing teams.
- Experience supporting proposals, presentations, and winning new work.
- Ability to contribute to business planning, growth strategy, and practice expansion.
- Strong track record of profitable project delivery.
- Established relationships with local municipalities and utility clients.
Responsibilities
- Lead day-to-day operations for the water utility infrastructure practice.
- Oversee workflow, staffing plans, utilization, and profitability.
- Prepare monthly staffing and financial forecasts and monitor project performance, billings, and margins.
- Partner with senior leadership to align resources and drive growth.
- Identify hiring needs, participate in recruiting, and foster a collaborative, high-performance team culture.
- Lead performance reviews and support employee development and retention.
- Mentor team leaders, engineers, and project managers at all career stages.
- Build technical depth and leadership capability across the team.
- Develop project managers' abilities in scope, schedule, budget, client relationships, proposals, fee development, billing, and financial performance.
- Create and track individualized development plans and progression timelines.
- Provide technical leadership across drinking water, wastewater, and stormwater projects.
- Lead and oversee studies, designs, and complex utility infrastructure solutions.
- Anticipate and resolve technical challenges.
- Serve as a technical resource for staff and clients.
- Lead proposal development, fee negotiations, and contract execution.
- Monitor project financial performance and guide project managers toward consistent delivery.
- Ensure project schedules, budgets, and quality standards are met.
- Contribute to group and cross-discipline profitability.
- Ensure technical review and quality control at all project stages.
- Build long-term relationships with municipal and utility clients.
- Identify opportunities with existing clients and support new pursuits.
- Partner with business development and sales teams to grow the practice.
Benefits
- Excellent benefits.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
