Job Type
Full-time
Description
Summary As LAN's Water & Wastewater Process Design Practice Leader, you will serve as the firm's principal technical resource for process design. You will work alongside project managers, discipline leaders, and client-service teams to solve complex treatment challenges across Texas, from planning and alternatives evaluation through design, construction, startup, and operational support.
You will have room to help define the practice. That may include growing a dedicated process-design team, developing technical standards and training, pursuing specialized work, and building relationships with clients and industry partners around the areas where you see the greatest need and opportunity.
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.
- Partnering with LAN leaders to identify strategic pursuits, support proposals and interviews, and grow 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.
- 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.
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.
