Drinking Water Conveyance Practice Leader
About the Role
AE2S is seeking a Drinking Water Conveyance Practice Leader to define how drinking water conveyance systems are planned, designed, and delivered across the United States. This role leads the practice across all locations, driving strategy, technical excellence, and growth across critical water infrastructure systems. Practice leaders at AE2S focus on the Technologies, Trends, and Training for their respective practices.
Why This Opportunity Is Different
This is not a regional role. As the Drinking Water Conveyance Practice Leader, you will:
- Shape AE2S's national Drinking Water Conveyance strategies
- Expand and strengthen technical capabilities across multiple states
- Influence project delivery across multiple states
- Build and scale a nationally recognized practice
- Collaborate with leadership across operations, client development, and strategy
Responsibilities
- Set and drive the national vision for drinking water conveyance and distribution systems
- Partner across regions to grow teams, capabilities and marketing presence
- Lead technical direction and elevate quality across all drinking water conveyance projects
- Anticipate and operationalize emerging trends in water infrastructure and system design
- Represent AE2S as a recognized voice in the industry through client advisory roles, conferences, and professional engagements
- Support major pursuits and provide technical leadership in business development
- Mentor and develop engineers and technical staff across offices
What Success Looks Like
- Growth and expansion of AE2S's drinking water conveyance practice nationwide
- A strong and visible technical leadership presence in the market
- Strong client relationships and project wins
- High-performing, engaged teams across offices
- Advancement of innovative drinking water conveyance solutions and best practices
Basic Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Civil or Environmental Engineering or directly related field
- Professional Engineer (PE) license (or ability to obtain within 6 months)
- 10 or more years of experience in water infrastructure, with deep expertise in conveyance systems
- 2 years of leadership experience (team, project or practice level)
- Strong client relationship and business development experience
- Proven ability to manage clients, win new clients, and retain clients
- Ability to travel periodically to support conferences, project pursuits, client meetings, and other business development activities
Why AE2S
Build Your Future. Protect What Matters. AE2S is a 100% Employee-Owned engineering consulting firm focused on solving complex water and infrastructure challenges. In this role, you will have the opportunity to make a national impact while helping communities create safe, sustainable, and resilient water systems.
Compensation and Total Rewards
The anticipated salary range for this position is $120,000-$200,000+. This salary range represents AE2S's good-faith estimate at the time of posting. Actual compensation will be determined based on factors such as experience, technical expertise, licensure, certifications, education, geographic location, internal equity, and business needs. At AE2S, compensation extends beyond base pay and includes opportunities to share in both individual and company success through:
- Discretionary bonus opportunities
- Employee ownership through the ESOP
- Matching 401(k) contributions
Industry-Leading Family Benefits
AE2S believes financial security extends beyond salary alone. Our comprehensive benefits program includes:
- 100-percent company-paid family health Insurance
- 100-percent company-paid employee dental and vision insurance
- Company-paid short-term and long-term disability coverage
- Paid Time Off (PTO), including credits for prior experience
- Paid parental leave
Physical Requirements
- Ability to walk up to 3-miles on uneven terrain
- Ability to stand or sit for prolonged periods of time
- Occasionally climb, stoop, bend, kneel, crouch, reach, and twist
- Occasionally lift, carry, push, and pull light to moderate amounts of weight
- May require lifting and carrying up to 20 pounds, with rare lifting of up to 50 pounds
- Ability to inspect equipment, structures, or materials to identify the cause of errors or other problems or defects
- May be required to wear Personal Protection Equipment (PPE) including but not limited to, flame resistant clothing, hard hat, and protective footwear
- May require occasional evenings and weekends with overtime expectations varying with workload
- May be required to travel to off-site locations including occasional overnight stays out of town