Description
Plan and manage drinking water, wastewater, and stormwater projects, overseeing scope, budget, schedule, compliance, and stakeholder engagement to improve water quality, reliability, and conservation.
- • Review and revise water project proposals, designs, and policies.
- • Research and interpret water regulations, permits, and technical standards.
- • Identify and investigate compliance issues, spills, or illicit discharges.
- • Define and track KPIs for water quality, demand, losses, and reliability.
- • Prepare grant and loan applications to fund water infrastructure (e.g., SRF, WIFIA).
- • Provide technical and administrative support across planning, design, QA/QC, and construction.
- • Procure consultants, contractors, and equipment; manage contracts and change orders.
- • Create and maintain project schedules, budgets, risk registers, and permit documents.
- • Develop reports and presentations on project status, compliance, and outcomes.
- • Produce outreach materials and lead public meetings on projects and conservation.
- • Collect and analyze flow, demand, asset condition, and water quality data.
- • Assess project alternatives for cost, feasibility, resilience, and acceptance.
- • Monitor and document sampling, permit conditions, and environmental performance.
- • Set project goals and strategies with engineers, operators, finance, and regulators.
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Last reviewed: Jan 2026
