Water & Wastewater Utility Planning Practice Leader
US-AZ-Phoenix
Job ID: 2025-5060 Type: Regular Full-Time # of Openings: 1 Category: Water-Wastewater Phoenix, AZ
Overview
As a utility planning regional leader, You`ll be a key contributor providing technical expertise, design, project planning, project engineering, management, client relations, and business development for water utility projects. You`ll have responsibility for hiring, development, integration, and overall management of the growing utility planning team. The planning leader reports to the area manager.
Yearly Salary Range $160,000-225,000
Responsibilities
Identify and lead business development efforts in water and collection system planning.
Serves as a project manager, technical leader or management leader within the Utility Planning team.
Develop proposals and budgets for utility planning efforts
Meet with clients to determine recommended project scope, estimate staffing requirements, and fee estimates.
Develop and maintain client contact before, during and after project completion.
Cultivate client relationships through industry groups and by direct contract.
Lead multidisciplinary technical teams.
Communicate and collaborate directly with public works staff, delivering exceptional client partner service.
Develop engineering reports, technical memoranda, and planning studies.
Qualifications
Bachelor of Science in Civil, Environmental, or a related engineering discipline.
Minimum 15 years of water distribution or collection system modeling experience.
Professional Engineer (PE) license.
Proficiency in GIS, PC SWMM, EPASWMM, EPANET, InfoWater Pro, InfoWorks ICM, InfoSWMM, WaterCAD/GEMs, SewerCAD/GEMS or MIKE+ software.
This hybrid job operates between an office environment and a field environment and routinely requires the use of standard office equipment such as computers, phones and copy machines. May require occasional exposure to work environments that may include inclement weather, heat, humidity, noise, hazard, atmospheric conditions, and bodies of water, depending on project requirements.
While performing the duties of this job, physical demands of the employee include frequent sitting, moving, standing, talking, hearing, and occasional balancing, stooping, kneeling, crouching, reaching, handling, grasping, and feeling. This job may occasionally require operating a company vehicle, and lifting, carrying, pushing, and pulling up to 35 lbs.
Equal employment opportunity, including veterans and individuals with disabilities.