Water & Wastewater Process Design Practice Leader

About the role

This role serves as the firm's principal technical resource for process design, working alongside project managers, discipline leaders, and client-service teams to solve complex treatment challenges across Texas.

Responsibilities

• Providing technical leadership and quality oversight for complex water and wastewater treatment projects, including process planning, alternatives evaluation, treatment selection, design criteria, and process modeling.
• Serving as a trusted advisor to municipal clients and project teams on treatment-process decisions, regulatory considerations, resiliency, operational performance, and lifecycle value.
• Leading conceptual and technical reviews for significant or challenging projects and helping teams make sound decisions early, when they matter most.
• Staying actively engaged with new and proven treatment technologies, research, regulatory developments, and industry practices, then helping LAN and its clients adopt innovation thoughtfully.
• Setting a high bar for process-design quality, consistency, constructability, and practical operability across the firm.
• Recruiting, mentoring, and developing engineers who want to build expertise in water and wastewater process design.
• Prioritizing strategic pursuits, supporting proposals and interviews, and growing the firm's process-design capability in areas that align with community needs and your professional interests.
• Sharing expertise outside the firm through technical papers, conference presentations, client workshops, professional committees, and other visible contributions to the industry.
• Collaborating across disciplines, including civil, structural, mechanical, electrical, instrumentation and controls, and construction-phase services, to deliver integrated solutions.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in civil, environmental, chemical, or a closely related engineering discipline.
• A Professional Engineer license, with the ability to obtain Texas licensure if not already licensed in Texas.
• Typically 12+ years of progressively responsible experience in water and wastewater treatment process design, planning, or operations support.
• Demonstrated technical depth in municipal water and/or wastewater treatment processes.
• Experience leading technical work, mentoring engineers, and communicating directly with clients.
• A record of involvement in professional organizations, technical committees, publications, or presentations is strongly preferred.

Why LAN and this Opportunity?

This role will have a direct voice in how we build our process-design practice, develop future technical leaders, and serve communities across Texas. For the right person, this is a chance to remain deeply connected to the engineering while building something durable: a practice known for technical excellence, practical solutions, thoughtful innovation, and people who genuinely enjoy learning from one another.