Texas Water / Wastewater Account Leader

Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets.

We are more than 36,000 people, in over 70 countries, dedicated to improving quality of life. Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds, together we can solve the world's most complex challenges and deliver more impact together.

Role description :

Arcadis is currently seeking a Texas Water / Wastewater Account Leader in our Austin, TX officeto help us lead a team and grow their expertise and technical knowledge of water / wastewater treatment design and construction support services. The Texas Water / Wastewater Account Leader will be a critical member of our team and will be expected to execute and manage projects, engage in client development and winning more exciting and challenging projects throughout the Texas market.

This role sits within our Resilience global business area, where we work to protect our natural environment and water resources, while powering our world for future generations. Around the world, we're feeling the effects climate change, rapid urbanization, loss of biodiversity. The rate at which we're seeing large-scale, unforeseen events such as floods and wildfires, is becoming more frequent. We are here to protect our natural environment and water resources, while powering our world for future generations.

Role accountabilities :

As the Texas Water / Wastewater Account Leader , you will play a key role in client development activities, supporting positioning and capture strategies, and contributing to proposal and presentation efforts for Water / Wastewater Facility Design projects. A critical aspect of this role involves collaborating with Area Leaders and client Account Leaders to define project scopes and fee estimates, manage risks, identify project staff, and ensure projects are set up for successful and profitable delivery. You will coordinate with Arcadis' industry-leading technical advisors in water and wastewater process modeling and facility design and contribute to strategic planning with clients for water / wastewater treatment plants, stormwater systems, distribution and collection systems, and pump / lift stations. Additionally, you will mentor junior engineers and technical staff, support the work of others, and ensure compliance with all Arcadis practices, quality, and safety standards.

You will manage a diverse portfolio of projects for various clients across the region, coordinating multi-disciplined engineering teams to deliver outstanding results. Your responsibilities will include overseeing project budgets and delivery schedules, leading project teams to ensure all deliverables are met, and providing technical leadership throughout the planning, design, and construction phases of water and wastewater treatment plants, collection systems, and lift stations. Travel of up to 10% is required for project site visits, client meetings, and business development activities.

Key Attributes :

The ideal candidate possesses a strong technical engineering background and has demonstrated experience successfully delivering water and wastewater treatment plant design projects. They have a proven track record in client development, including pursuing proposals and participating in interviews to secure new projects. Additionally, they are skilled in delivering technical presentations and contributing effectively during project pursuit interviews. Highly organized with keen attention to detail, the candidate is flexible and able to collaborate with various project teams both locally and across remote offices, consistently delivering high-quality work products to clients. They also bring experience in negotiating, managing, and successfully delivering projects with fees of $1 million or more.

Qualifications & Experience :

Required Qualifications :

• 15 or more years of related industry experience in the water / wastewater field.
• Bachelor's Degree in Civil, Environmental, Mechanical, Chemical Engineering or related field.
• PE License in Texas.

Preferred Qualifications :

Why Arcadis?

We can only achieve our goals when everyone is empowered to be their best. We believe everyone's contribution matters. It's why we are pioneering a skills-based approach, where you can harness your unique experience and expertise to carve your career path and maximize the impact we can make together.

You'll do meaningful work, and no matter what role, you'll be helping to deliver sustainable solutions for a more prosperous planet. Make your mark, on your career, your colleagues, your clients, your life and the world around you.

Together, we can create a lasting legacy.

Join Arcadis. Create a Legacy.

Our Commitment to Equality, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging

We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day which is why we take equality and inclusion seriously and hold ourselves to account for our actions. Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people. We are an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. Women, minorities, people with disabilities and veterans are strongly encouraged to apply. We are dedicated to a policy of non-discrimination in employment on any basis including race, creed, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, citizenship status, disability, veteran status, or any other basis prohibited by law.

Arcadis offers benefits for full time and part time positions. These benefits include medical, dental, and vision, EAP, 401K, STD, LTD, AD&D, life insurance, paid parental leave, reward & recognition program and optional benefits including wellbeing benefits, adoption assistance and tuition reimbursement. We offer nine paid holidays and 20 days PTO that accrue per year. The salary range for this position is $180,000 - $200,000 Actual salaries will vary and are based on several factors, such as experience, education, budget, internal equity, project and location.

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