Job Type

Full-time

Description

The Opportunity

RETTEW is seeking an experienced Municipal Client Manager with a strong background in private-sector engineering consulting to serve as a trusted advisor to municipal clients while leading infrastructure and community-development projects.

This role is designed for someone who has successfully managed municipal clients within a consulting environment; balancing technical project delivery, client service, financial performance, and relationship growth.

You'll have the opportunity to combine engineering judgment, project leadership, and client relationships in a role where your recommendations directly influence the communities we serve.

What You'll Do

As a Municipal Client Manager, you will:

• Serve as a primary engineering representative and trusted advisor for assigned municipal clients.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with municipal officials, staff, authorities, and community stakeholders.
• Manage municipal engineering and infrastructure projects from planning through completion, with responsibility for scope, schedule, budget, quality, and client expectations.
• Review subdivision, land development, infrastructure, stormwater, and other engineering submissions prepared by developers and outside consultants for compliance with municipal ordinances, standards, and applicable requirements.
• Prepare technical review letters, reports, recommendations, and engineering documentation for municipal clients.
• Advise municipal officials and staff on proposed improvements, development activities, infrastructure needs, and engineering considerations.
• Attend and present at municipal meetings, planning commissions, zoning hearings, public meetings, and other forums as required.
• Explain complex engineering issues and recommendations clearly to municipal officials, developers, consultants, and members of the public.
• Coordinate with developers, contractors, regulatory agencies, outside consultants, and RETTEW's multidisciplinary project teams.
• Support infrastructure and capital planning, including transportation, stormwater, utilities, and other community improvement initiatives.
• Identify project risks, regulatory considerations, and potential challenges and help clients develop practical solutions.
• Identify opportunities to expand RETTEW's support of existing municipal clients by connecting them with additional technical resources and services when appropriate.

What We're Looking For
Required

• Bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering, Environmental Engineering, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent substantial experience managing municipal engineering clients within an AEC consulting environment.
• Active Professional Engineer (PE) license in Pennsylvania, or active PE licensure in another state with the ability to obtain Pennsylvania licensure through comity.
• Significant experience within an AEC consulting environment managing municipal engineering projects and client relationships.
• Demonstrated experience serving municipalities or municipal authorities as a consulting engineer, project manager, or primary client contact.
• Significant professional experience within the AEC consulting industry, including demonstrated municipal engineering, project-management, and client-management responsibility.
• Experience serving municipalities, municipal authorities, or other public-sector clients.
• Experience managing engineering projects with responsibility for scope, schedule, budget, and client communication.
• Experience reviewing engineering plans, subdivision or land development submissions, or municipal infrastructure projects.
• Working knowledge of municipal ordinances, permitting processes, land development practices, and infrastructure planning.
• Experience communicating technical recommendations to municipal officials, clients, or other public-sector stakeholders.
• Strong written communication skills with experience preparing technical reports, review letters, recommendations, or similar engineering documentation.
• Ability and willingness to attend evening municipal meetings, planning commissions, public hearings, and other client meetings as required.
• Demonstrated experience working in an engineering consulting environment, managing work performed for municipal or public-sector clients.
• Demonstrated responsibility for ongoing client relationships, including understanding client needs, coordinating project delivery, managing expectations, and identifying additional opportunities to support the client.
• Demonstrated experience developing, maintaining, and expanding long-term municipal client relationships in a consulting environment.
• Valid driver's license and ability to travel to client, meeting, and project locations as needed.

Preferred

• Experience serving as the primary engineering representative or engineer for a municipality or municipal authority.
• Experience presenting at municipal meetings, planning commissions, zoning hearings, or public forums.
• Experience reviewing subdivision and land development submissions on behalf of a municipality.
• Knowledge of Pennsylvania municipal processes, ordinances, and regulatory frameworks.
• Experience supporting municipal capital improvement or long-range infrastructure planning.

Why RETTEW

Municipal engineering is about more than delivering individual projects. It's about becoming a resource communities can rely on year after year.

At RETTEW, you'll have the opportunity to:

• Develop long-term relationships with municipal clients and become a trusted part of their decision-making process.
• Influence infrastructure and development decisions that directly affect local communities.
• Work across a broad range of municipal needs rather than being limited to one type of engineering project.
• Draw on RETTEW professionals across engineering, environmental, transportation, land development, water/wastewater, and other disciplines to solve client challenges.
• Lead your projects and client relationships with support from experienced technical professionals and organizational leadership.
• Expand your leadership and client-management responsibilities as your career develops.
• Build ownership in the company through RETTEW's Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP).

RETTEW also offers competitive compensation, comprehensive medical, dental and vision benefits, disability and life insurance, a 401(k) with company match, paid time off and holidays, and professional-development and licensure support.t

Work Environment

Workplace Designation: Hybrid
Location: Lancaster, PA

This role combines office and remote work with regular client interaction and project-related travel. Attendance at evening municipal meetings, planning commissions, zoning hearings, and public meetings is an expected part of the position.

Safety & Compliance Requirements

This position is designated as safety-sensitive. The selected candidate must successfully complete all required pre-employment screenings, which may include background checks, drug testing, and motor vehicle record review, where applicable.

This role may involve field-based work, site visits, and operation of company vehicles or personal vehicles for business purposes. Ongoing compliance with RETTEW's safety policies, client-specific safety requirements, and all applicable regulatory standards is required.

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Requirements

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