Water & Wastewater Process Design Director

Texas Health Institute; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Lockwood, Andrews & Newnam, Inc. (LAN) is seeking a Water & Wastewater Process Design Practice Leader to serve as the firm's principal technical resource for process design across Texas.

You will work with project managers and client teams from planning through startup, build a dedicated process-design group, develop standards, and mentor engineers while advancing innovative treatment solutions for municipal water and wastewater facilities.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in civil, environmental, chemical, or related engineering.
• 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.

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.

Skills

Technical leadership

Mentoring engineers

Client communication

Water & wastewater treatment

Project oversight

Team building

Education

Bachelor's degree in civil, environmental, chemical, or related engineering

Job description

Lockwood, Andrews & Newnam, Inc. (LAN) is seeking a Water & Wastewater Process Design Practice Leader to serve as the firm's principal technical resource for process design across Texas.

You will work with project managers and client teams from planning through startup, build a dedicated process-design group, develop standards, and mentor engineers while advancing innovative treatment solutions for municipal water and wastewater facilities.