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About the Role
This is a rare opportunity to step into a true ownership-minded role—shaping strategy, developing talent, and expanding a high-impact practice. As the national leader, you’ll oversee operations, mentor and grow a multidisciplinary team, serve as a technical authority, and act as a trusted advisor to clients. If you’re energized by building teams, elevating people, and delivering complex infrastructure projects, this role offers both influence and long-term growth.
Responsibilities
- Lead day-to-day operations for water utility infrastructure practice
- Oversee workflow, staffing plans, utilization, and profitability
- Prepare monthly staffing and financial forecasts with a forward-looking outlook
- Maintain visibility into project performance, billings, and margins
- Partner senior leadership to align resources and drive growth
- Identify hiring needs and play a key role in recruiting top engineering talent
- Foster a high-performance, collaborative, and engaged team culture
- Lead performance reviews and support employee development and retention
- Actively mentor Team Leaders, Engineers and Project Managers at all career stages
- Build technical depth and leadership capability across the team
- Develop Project Managers into well-rounded leaders of scope, schedule, budget, and client relationships
- Coach PMs on 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 to keep projects moving efficiently
- Serve as a go-to technical resource for both staff and clients
- Lead proposal development, fee negotiations, and contract execution
- Monitor project financial performance and guide PMs toward consistent delivery
- Ensure schedules, budgets, and quality standards are met across all projects
- Contribute to overall group and cross-discipline profitability
- Ensure rigorous technical review and quality control at all project stages
- Leverage firmwide expertise to deliver best-in-class solutions
- Build long-term, trusted relationships with municipal and utility clients
- Identify expansion opportunities with existing clients and support new pursuits
- Partner with business development and sales teams to grow the practice
Requirements
- 20+ 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 across the USA and internationally
- Confident, positive communicator 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
Skills
- Water utility infrastructure
- Team leadership
- Technical authority
- Client advisory
- Operations oversight
- Staff development
- Performance management
- Mentorship
- Technical leadership
- Project management
- Financial management
- Quality control
- Client engagement
- Business development
- Proposal development
- Fee negotiation
- Contract execution
- Drinking water
- Wastewater
- Stormwater
- Utility infrastructure solutions
- Technical problem-solving
- Relationship building
Location
- Onsite
- Indianapolis, IN
- Evansville, IN
- South Bend, IN
- Fort Wayne, IN
- Jeffersonville, IN
- Merrillville, IN
- Tampa, FL
- Orlando, FL
- Chicago, IL
- Lisle, IL
- Columbus, OH
- Cleveland, OH
- Cincinnati, OH
- Akron, OH
- Pittsburgh, PA
- Nashville, TN
- Austin, TX
- Round Rock, TX
- Dallas, TX
- Irving, TX
Work Type
- Onsite
Experience Level
- 20+ years of utility infrastructure engineering experience
Education Level
- Bachelor’s degree in Civil or Environmental Engineering
- Professional Engineer (PE) license in one of the United States
Benefits
- Excellent benefits
About the Company
- Highly respected engineering firm
- Strong, people-first culture