Water/Wastewater Program Director
About the role
The Water / Wastewater Program Director provides senior leadership and oversight for the successful delivery of large, complex water/wastewater programs of significant strategic and public value in California. The role has been established to strengthen leadership readiness for critical water and wastewater pursuits and to support long-term succession planning for our active programs, ensuring experienced program leadership is in place to transition seamlessly from pursuit through delivery.
Responsibilities
- Provide senior leadership across the full lifecycle of major water/wastewater programs, from pursuits and mobilization through execution, commissioning, and closeout.
- Establish and maintain program governance, assurance, and performance frameworks aligned with municipal, state, and federal regulatory requirements.
- Direct and integrate senior leaders across engineering, construction management, environmental compliance, operations readiness, and commercial management.
- Ensure program-wide compliance with safety, environmental, drinking water, and water quality standards, including permits and consent decrees.
- Provide senior commercial oversight including contract strategy, supplier engagement, risk management, change control, and financial governance.
- Act as the principal point of contact for municipal clients, regulators, delivery partners, and community stakeholders.
- Champion innovation, digital delivery, and continuous improvement across water and wastewater infrastructure programs.
- Support major water/wastewater pursuits and programs, including proposal strategy, interviews, and transition from award to delivery.
Requirements
Minimum Qualifications: Bachelor’s degree in engineering, environmental sciences, construction management, project management, or a related discipline (or equivalent experience) and 12+ years of professional experience delivering large, complex water and/or wastewater programs or demonstrated equivalency of experience and/or education including 4 years of leadership.
Preferred Qualifications: 20+ years of relevant experience delivering large, complex water and/or wastewater programs PgMP, PMP, CCM, or similar professional certification preferred. Professional Engineer (PE) license or equivalent professional registration preferred.
Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree in engineering, environmental sciences, construction management, project management, or a related discipline (or equivalent experience) and 12+ years of professional experience delivering large, complex water and/or wastewater programs or demonstrated equivalency of experience and/or education including 4 years of leadership.
Preferred Qualifications: 20+ years of relevant experience delivering large, complex water and/or wastewater programs PgMP, PMP, CCM, or similar professional certification preferred. Professional Engineer (PE) license or equivalent professional registration preferred.
Skills
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Benefits
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Pay
$280,000 to $330,000 per year
Schedule
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