Water Team Leader

Most weeks involve team leadership, project portfolio oversight, and senior stakeholder engagement — sitting with technical staff on project progress, managing the portfolio of active water-resources work, engaging with senior leadership and major stakeholders on strategic matters, supporting team development. Portfolio outcomes, team performance, and stakeholder satisfaction shape the visible measures.

What gets demanding is the multi-project and multi-stakeholder dimension — water-resources team leaders carry portfolios spanning hydrology, water supply, planning, and regulatory work, and balancing across them takes constant calibration. Variance across employers is wide: large water-resources consultancies and major utilities run with structured team-leadership roles; smaller organizations concentrate the leadership work on a smaller team.

This role tends to fit folks who carry deep water-resources experience, supervisory craft, and the diplomatic touch that managing across technical specialties and stakeholders requires. PE, AICP, senior water-resources credentials, and growing leadership experience anchor advancement. The trade-off is the political-and-technical leadership dimension of senior water-resources work and the multi-year project arcs the work spans.