Water Resources Project Delivery Leader

Baltimore, Maryland | Hybrid Work Arrangement

Precision Executive Search is partnering with a highly respected, multidisciplinary engineering firm to identify an experienced water resources professional ready to take on a significant leadership role in its Baltimore office.

Working closely with the Water Resources Director, you will help lead an established Baltimore team of approximately 15 engineers and technical professionals. Your primary focus will be delivering complex projects, supporting client relationships, and helping talented engineers and project managers continue to develop.

The team’s work centers on municipal stormwater management, stream restoration, watershed planning, and environmental water resources projects. This opportunity brings together meaningful technical work, people leadership, and the ability to influence how a growing practice delivers for its clients.

Why Consider This Opportunity?

• An established team and active projects. Step into a group with experienced professionals, existing client relationships, and work already underway.

• A meaningful leadership role. Work directly with practice leadership to guide project execution, strengthen team performance, and develop future leaders.

• Continued technical involvement. Apply your engineering judgment to challenging stormwater, restoration, and watershed assignments.

• Multidisciplinary resources. Collaborate with environmental specialists, surveyors, civil engineers, and other technical professionals across the firm.

• Long-term career development. Join an organization with more than a century of engineering experience, a collaborative culture, and an investment in professional growth.

The Work

You will oversee a diverse portfolio of assignments involving:

• Stormwater management facilities, BMP design, and retrofits

• Green infrastructure and water-quality improvements

• Stream restoration, environmental restoration, and stabilization

• Watershed planning and MS4/TMDL compliance support

• Hydrologic and hydraulic analysis, flood studies, and scour analysis

• Erosion and sediment control

The group primarily serves municipal and other public-sector clients, with opportunities to apply its expertise across additional project types and markets.

Your Role

• Lead project delivery. Guide assignments from planning and analysis through design, permitting, and construction support, with responsibility for scope, schedule, budget, quality, and client satisfaction.

• Develop the team. Mentor engineers and project managers, provide clear direction, help resolve technical challenges, and support the growth of emerging leaders.

• Provide senior technical oversight. Review engineering analyses, models, construction plans, specifications, reports, cost estimates, and permit submissions.

• Be a trusted client resource. Maintain strong relationships, communicate proactively, and help clients evaluate practical solutions to complex water resources challenges.

• Coordinate across disciplines. Work with internal specialists, subconsultants, regulatory agencies, contractors, and public officials to keep projects moving.

• Support practice growth. Partner with senior leadership on proposals, pursuits, and opportunities to expand services through strong project performance and client relationships.

What You Bring

• A bachelor’s degree in civil engineering, environmental engineering, or a related discipline

• At least 15 years of progressive water resources engineering experience, including leadership of complex projects and multidisciplinary teams

• A Maryland Professional Engineer license, or licensure in a neighboring state with the ability to obtain Maryland registration

• Strong experience in stormwater management, environmental water resources, stream restoration, or related project delivery

• Technical depth in hydrology, hydraulics, and floodplain analysis, including HEC-RAS

• Experience overseeing construction documents, permitting, project budgets, schedules, and subconsultants

• Familiarity with Civil 3D, AutoCAD, MicroStation, and GIS sufficient to guide technical teams and review their work

• Clear communication skills, sound judgment, and an ability to develop both people and client relationships

Candidates with strong stormwater experience gained through site development are also encouraged to apply.

Experience That Will Stand Out

• Twenty or more years of relevant engineering and leadership experience

• Established relationships with Maryland, Delaware, Pennsylvania, county, or municipal clients

• Extensive knowledge of MS4/TMDL requirements, pollutant-reduction accounting, and restoration crediting strategies

• Success mentoring project managers, developing technical teams, and contributing to proposals and successful pursuits

Benefits and Professional Growth

The firm offers hybrid work flexibility, paid time off and holidays, health, dental, vision, life and disability insurance, a matching 401(k), tuition reimbursement, and professional development opportunities. The role is based in Baltimore and requires regular engagement with the local team.

To learn more, contact Precision Executive Search for a confidential conversation or submit your résumé for consideration.