Client Manager - Water Services

Woodard & Curran is a national engineering, science and operations firm with a simple vision for clean water, a safe environment, healthy communities and happy people. As an employee-owned company, we strive to cultivate teams that encourage collaboration in an inclusive culture. We seek talented individuals from all backgrounds to help us address a broad range of water and environmental issues. We prioritize our people, offering opportunities for professional growth, ownership and flexibility. This commitment enables us to make a meaningful impact on our clients, communities and the planet. 

Woodard & Curran is seeking a Municipal Water Client Leader to help grow our municipal water market across the Northeast, with emphasis on drinking water, wastewater, stormwater, and water resources. This leadership role is ideal for a technical professional with public‑sector experience who is ready to expand from project execution into client strategy, team leadership, and regional growth.

We’re looking for an experienced engineer or project manager who wants to deepen client relationships while continuing to lead impactful technical work. The ideal candidate brings strong technical credibility, municipal experience, curiosity, and the drive to build long‑term partnerships.

You’ll collaborate with colleagues who have deep municipal water expertise, established public‑sector relationships, and a strong technical delivery team that turns ideas into successful projects. You’ll help grow existing accounts, build new ones, and strengthen our municipal water presence across the Mid-West.

What makes this role unique is the breadth of Woodard & Curran’s platform. Alongside consulting and engineering, you’ll work with our Operations & Maintenance teams that operate water and wastewater facilities, and our Integrated Solutions Division supporting design‑build and design‑build‑operate projects. This creates a direct connection to the real‑world challenges our municipal clients face.

You will serve as a strategic advisor to municipalities, helping them navigate infrastructure, regulatory, and funding needs. The role offers strong leadership visibility through direct client engagement and account development, positioning you for accelerated growth.

With a flexible work environment, competitive benefits, and strong bonus potential, this position supports both professional advancement and personal well‑being.

As a client leader, you will help ensure our technical capabilities remain at the forefront of client engagements and industry expectations. This highly visible role focuses on partnering with large, complex municipalities to identify unmet needs and deliver thoughtful, solution‑oriented approaches.

We are looking for a motivated, people-focused municipal water professional who wants to lead, grow, and build something meaningful in the Mid-West. The ideal candidate is passionate about working in teams, energized by client engagement, and ready to expand into a relationship-driven leadership role. The ideal candidate has strong technical roots, understands the public-sector environment, and is ready to expand into client leadership, team building, and practice growth.

You will also drive growth critical to the firm's mission, providing a gratifying, safe place to work and expanding opportunities for our employees.

This role is built for someone who is ready for more client ownership, more leadership visibility, more variety in the work, and more opportunity to shape what comes next. You will not be expected to succeed in isolation or build a portfolio from a cold start. Instead, you’ll have access to experienced client leaders, established municipal relationships, a strong technical delivery bench, real‑world operations expertise, and alternative delivery capabilities that allow you to bring differentiated solutions to our clients.

For the right person, this role provides the chance to expand your impact beyond a narrow technical lane—without stepping away from the meaningful engineering work that drives you. It’s an opportunity to grow as a municipal water leader, build trusted client partnerships, develop high‑performing teams, and help communities across the Mid-West address critical water challenges.

This position also offers a clear pathway to expanded leadership responsibilities, including greater influence over client strategy, regional growth, and practice leadership.

As part of our commitment to a fair and respectful workplace, Woodard & Curran uses a Mutual Dispute Resolution (MDR) to help resolve most employment-related concerns efficiently and consistently.

• MDR applies to both you and the Company
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• 401(k) Pre-tax or Roth Contributions: The company matches 100% of the first 3% of salary contributed

• Observed holidays: Choose up to 8 holidays to observe annually
• Vacation: Accrued based on years of experience and calculated on hours worked
• Sick time: Paid sick time for non-work-related illness or injury.
• Parental leave: Up to 80 hours of Paid Parental Leave for child bonding

• Disability: Paid short- and long-term disability
• Health: Medical plan options; plus dental and vision plans.
• Life: Basic employee group life insurance and AD&D benefits; additional voluntary life insurance for employees and families is available through Sun Life.
• Wellbeing: DarioMind assistance program combined with personalized mental health and wellbeing resources.

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Woodard & Curran is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to non-discrimination and make employment decisions based on job-related factors. Individuals with disabilities and protected veterans are encouraged to apply. If you require a reasonable accommodation during the application process, please contact Beth Sweitzer.

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We welcome individuals from all backgrounds and believe diverse perspectives strengthen our ability to serve clients and communities.

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