Regional Manager - Drinking Water / Wastewater - OH
About the role
Spicer Group is seeking an experienced Drinking Water / Wastewater leader to serve as Regional Manager for Ohio. This role is designed for a professional who is deeply connected to the region and someone who understands the municipalities, utilities, regulators, funding programs, and stakeholders that shape infrastructure decisions across Ohio. This role ensures profitability and financial health of the region, leads strategic planning efforts aligned with company goals, and drives growth through client engagement, business development, and cross‑selling opportunities. This position plays a key role in strengthening client relationships, expanding market presence, and ensuring technical and operational excellence across the region, while upholding Spicer Group’s core values and commitment to service quality.
The Company
Spicer Group is a multi-disciplinary engineering, surveying, and planning company. With offices in Michigan, Ohio, and Georgia, Spicer Group continues to expand its geographic footprint. We are committed to providing our teams with technical support throughout these offices to continually build upon our success year after year. Spicer Group is committed to maintaining its tightly held private ownership, with no interest in selling to larger AEC firms. This commitment provides significant ownership opportunities for high performers and people that uphold our core values and build successful teams. Spicer Group was given the prestigious 2026 Circle of Excellence Platinum Award, recognized by PSMJ. Spicer Group prides itself on our core values of commitment to growth, great client relationships, excellent services and solutions, maintaining a team environment, and having integrity in all we do. We are seeking a candidate who will strive to uphold these values.
Responsibilities
- Responsible for overall financial health and performance of drinking water / wastewater within Ohio, including budget, investment allocation, and profitability as directed by the senior vice president
- Guide growth strategy for drinking water / wastewater service line —identifying market opportunities and aligning resources to meet future demand
- Executes risk management strategy; identifies and mitigates risk to Ohio operations, financial stability, and reputation
- Defines and analyzes problems in a timely manner and makes expedient, consistent decisions
- Serves as project manager on large multidisciplinary projects
- Takes direction from designated regional vice president, director, senior vice president, and/or executive vice president on company goals and vision
- Participates in Regional Strategic Planning Committee and offers drinking water /wastewater market share growth strategy
- Establishes and maintains effective communications between technical service areas
- Holds regular group meetings to coordinate workload distribution
- Executes regional business development focused on drinking water / wastewater and coordinates upstream efforts
- Support and understand client challenges, funding realities, and long‑range plans, connecting them with the right Spicer Group technical expertise to deliver value over time
- Development and execution of client maintenance plans
- Development of new clients within Ohio
- You will maintain and grow strong relationships for municipalities, authorities, and utility owners; State and regional agencies; Industry partners, contractors, and funding stakeholders
- Serves as client manager on projects as assigned by the regional/senior vice president
- Engage with local government and industry stakeholders to influence policies and secure project opportunities
- Performs community engagement within Ohio
- Implement mechanisms to collect and analyze client feedback, using insights to refine drinking water / wastewater offerings and improve client experience
- Your reputation and relationships will help position Spicer Group early in project planning conversations and long‑term infrastructure programs
- Responsible for drinking water / wastewater service line growth within Ohio and collaborate with others to