Group Lead - Water & Environment Engineering

Key Responsibilities

· Business Unit Leadership: Own the operational performance, delivery maturity, profitability, and growth roadmap for the Water & Environmental Engineering BU.

· P&L and Resource Management: Manage gross margins, capacity planning, billable utilization, project loading, and productivity across multidisciplinary offshore engineering teams.

· Global Delivery Ownership: Lead end-to-end delivery for municipal water distribution, wastewater collection, sewer gravity and force main systems, stormwater management, hydraulic modeling, flood studies, pump stations, and W/WWTP BIM/design support projects.

· Technical Quality Gatekeeping: Establish and enforce design review protocols for hydraulic calculations, pipe networks, profiles, treatment plant layouts, clash coordination, model outputs, drawings, and reports.

· Client Partnership: Serve as the senior technical and delivery interface for global engineering consultancies, managing expectations, scope, change orders, SLAs, technical RFIs, and executive-level client communication.

· Standards and Compliance: Ensure deliverables comply with applicable international and local requirements including US EPA, AWWA, WEF, Ten States Standards, UK Sewers for Adoption, Eurocodes, ISO 9001, ISO 19650, and client-specific municipal utility standards.

· Digital Delivery and BIM Transformation: Standardize workflows across Civil 3D, Bentley WaterCAD, SewerGEMS, OpenFlows, EPA SWMM, InfoWater/InfoSewer, HEC-RAS, Revit MEP, AutoCAD Plant 3D, and model-based QA/QC processes.

· Team Building and Capability Development: Recruit, mentor, upskill, and retain hydraulic engineers, civil designers, BIM modelers, draftspersons, and technical leads; create a scalable bench for international project demand.

· Process Excellence: Develop SOPs, automation opportunities, checklists, design templates, QA frameworks, and production standards to improve accuracy, turnaround time, and repeatability.

· Cross-Disciplinary Coordination: Coordinate civil, process, structural, mechanical, electrical, instrumentation, and digital delivery teams to produce integrated, coordinated, and construction-ready outputs.

Requirements

Required Qualifications and Experience

· M.E. / M Tech in Civil, Environmental, Chemical, Water Resources, or related engineering discipline.

· 15+ years of experience in water, wastewater, stormwater, wet utilities, hydraulic modeling, or environmental infrastructure engineering.

· Minimum 10+ years in a senior delivery or technical leadership role managing international projects for clients in North America markets.

· Demonstrated experience building or scaling offshore engineering teams, preferably within an engineering consultancy, GCC, or specialist design delivery organization.

· Strong technical breadth across water distribution networks, gravity and pressurized sewer systems, stormwater detention/retention, pump stations, treatment plants, pipe profiles, and multidisciplinary BIM coordination.

· Proficiency or strong working knowledge of Civil 3D, Bentley WaterCAD/SewerGEMS/OpenFlows, EPA SWMM, InfoWater/InfoSewer, HEC-RAS, Revit MEP, AutoCAD Plant 3D, Navisworks, and related design/digital delivery platforms.

· Proven ability to interpret and apply international standards, municipal specifications, design manuals, and client-specific engineering requirements.