Principal Industrial Water/Wastewater Consultant (San Antonio)

Principal Industrial Water/Wastewater Consultant – Arcadis

Arcadis is the world’s leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets. We are more than 36,000 people in over 70 countries, dedicated to improving quality of life. Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds, together we can solve the world’s most complex challenges and deliver more impact together.

Role Accountabilities

As a Principal Water/Wastewater Consultant you will join the IWTO team as a “seller/doer”. This position will be key to our growth in the Gulf Coast and the broader U.S., engaging with clients in a meaningful way to help grow the team’s revenue and enable growth. You will connect with clients, learn their needs, assess how Arcadis can support them, create opportunities with clients, and lead and be involved in proposal preparation. The selling aspect will be approximately 50 % of the role. The doer aspect—conceptual and detailed process design—constitutes the remaining 50 %. You will be a subject‑matter expert in industrial wastewater treatment with deep technical acumen.

• Support Arcadis’ industrial water growth in the Gulf Coast and broader U.S., lead business development activities to increase project wins and develop long‑lasting client relationships.
• Reach out to your client network regularly to stay connected and assess opportunities to assist them with key needs, including strategic positioning for future opportunities.
• Lead pursuits and development of proposals, client meetings for business development, work directly with clients to determine needs and provide solutions, participate in client interviews, engage with Arcadis’ regional, national, and global client account teams, support expansion of business development opportunities and client relationships to strategically grow Arcadis’ industrial water/wastewater portfolio, leverage existing and new client relationships, and prepare abstracts and technical papers.
• Serve as an Oil and Gas wastewater treatment subject‑matter expert, support the development of the Industrial Water process team within the Oil and Gas sector.
• Lead projects and clients in the planning, design and construction of industrial water / wastewater treatment plants and wastewater recycle plants.
• Coordinate multi‑disciplined engineering teams, lead or serve as subject‑matter expert for complex engineering designs for industrial water projects while collaborating with other design disciplines.
• Design basis documents, engineering calculations including mass and energy balances, review of engineering drawings (P&IDs and layout), specifications for treatment equipment, instrumentation and controls engineering reports and feasibility studies; manage technical coordination and leadership roles on larger or complex projects or projects with higher associated risk, lead knowledge transfer and development of staff within your area of expertise.

Qualifications & Experience

• Bachelor of Science degree in Environmental Engineering, Civil Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or related field (preferred).
• 20 + years of industrial water/wastewater treatment experience.
• Experience in roles across engineering, project management, sustainability, sales, marketing, and technology.
• Knowledge and experience with industrial clients in North America.
• Strong experience in developing and leading large industrial wastewater capital projects.

Preferred Qualifications

• Professional Engineer license.
• Knowledge and experience with multinational industrial clients.
• Previous experience in a regional or national role and collaboration across regional teams.

Benefits

Arcadis offers medical, dental, and vision, EAP, 401(k), STD, LTD, AD&D, life insurance, paid parental leave, reward & recognition program and optional benefits including wellbeing benefits, adoption assistance, and tuition reimbursement. We offer nine paid holidays and 15 days PTO that accrue per year. The salary range for this position is $124,700 – $187,050. Actual salaries will vary based on experience, education, budget, internal equity, project and location.

Commitment to Equality, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging

We are an equal‑opportunity and affirmative‑action employer and encourage women, minorities, people with disabilities and veterans to apply. We are dedicated to a policy of non‑discrimination in employment on any basis prohibited by law.