Midwest Drinking Water Area Practice Leader

About the role

Brown and Caldwell (BC) has an exciting opportunity as Midwest Area Drinking Water Practice Leader to help us grow our already impressive portfolio of drinking water clients and projects. The Area Practice Leader (APL) will be responsible for driving growth in the Drinking Water Practice to advance the Midwest Area’s strategic goals. The APL will also help lead major drinking water projects and ensure exceptional client service.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical expertise and leadership on complex and high-impact environmental engineering projects.
• Develop and approve advanced engineering analyses, designs, and strategic recommendations.
• Influence technical approaches, standards, and methodologies across projects and programs.
• Lead development of complex, multi-disciplinary environmental management and infrastructure solutions.
• Provide expert technical guidance during regulatory negotiations, permitting, and stakeholder engagement.
• Flexibility to adapt and execute various additional assignments based on evolving needs.
• Mentorship
  • Provide mentorship, guidance, support, and knowledge-sharing to help less experienced team members develop their skills and grow within their roles.

Requirements

• Recognized expertise in environmental engineering and related regulatory environments.
• Strategic and systems-level problem-solving skills.
• Ability to influence technical decisions with significant organizational impact.
• Strong leadership, communication, and advisory capabilities.

Skills And Competencies

• Experience typically a minimum of 15 years of related work experience in Environmental Engineering or related field.
• Minimum of 10 years of increasingly responsible professional experience in the environmental services or water utility and/or consulting industry.
• Outstanding communication skills with the ability to communicate clearly, concisely, and professionally (verbal and written) for technical and non-technical audiences.
• Experience guiding technical strategy for a large portfolio of projects and alignment or key technical differentiators and staff to those projects.

Qualifications

• B.S. or M.S. in engineering or a related field is required.
• Licensure as a professional engineer is required.

Pay

The anticipated starting pay range for this position is based on the employee's primary work location and may be more or less depending upon skills, experience, and education. These ranges may be modified in the future.

Schedule

Up to 30% travel.

About Brown And Caldwell

Headquartered in Walnut Creek, California, Brown and Caldwell is a full-service environmental engineering and construction firm with 50 offices and 2,100 professionals across North America and the Pacific. For 75 years, we have created leading-edge environmental solutions for municipalities, private industry, and government agencies. We strive to be the company of choice—to our clients, who benefit from our passion for delivering exceptional quality, and to our employees, present and future, who share our commitment to client service, collaboration, and innovation.

Benefits and Other Compensation

• We provide a comprehensive benefits package that promotes employee health, performance, and success which includes medical, dental, vision, short and long-term disability, life insurance, an employee assistance program, paid time off and parental leave, paid holidays, 401(k) retirement savings plan with employer match, performance-based bonus eligibility, employee referral bonuses, tuition reimbursement, pet insurance and long-term care insurance.

About the Midwest Area

The Midwest Area is part of the larger Brown and Caldwell organization, focused on providing environmental engineering and construction services to clients in the Midwest region.