Water Quality & Environmental Compliance Program Manager

Job Title: Water Quality & Environmental Compliance Program Manager (Posted: Feb 9, 2026)

People are the heart of our business. As an American Water employee, you will be offered a competitive salary and health benefits package, along with opportunities to develop, grow, and evolve your career. Our benefits packages focus on key areas such as health & wellness, emotional & well‑being, and savings for current & future goals.

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. We strongly believe having diversity across our company makes us more successful and helps us provide essential services to our customers. We are stronger because we embrace different ideas, viewpoints, experiences, and backgrounds.

Indiana American Water is seeking a motivated, compliance-driven Water Quality & Environmental Compliance Program Manager to join our team in Jeffersonville, IN
. This position will be influential and will collaborate across the business. You will interact daily with local operations and oversee compliance including sampling, reporting, and chemical safety. As the Water Quality & Environmental Compliance Program Manager, you will be essential in ensuring we meet regulatory deadlines and compliance standards are met.

• Assists local, State and Federal regulatory agencies during inspections.
• Responds (on-call) to water quality problems, taking appropriate corrective action including documentation to advise management.
• Ensures that customer complaints or inquiries are properly addressed to attempt to resolve any issues.
• Reports on problems and issues regarding water quality and standards.
• Assures that policies, programs, standards of performance and approved objectives related to water quality are adhered to.
• Assists in the procurement of treatment chemicals and manages receipt of chemical supplies to assure adequate supply along with monitoring equipment, chemical feeds, etc. to ensure standards are maintained.
• Assists with training of plant operating staff, field services and other water quality personnel in treatment practices and environmental initiatives.
• Supports water quality activities related to the Environmental Management Program to ensure compliance with SDWA/CWA regulations are continually met.
• Plan, prepare and control the portion of the financial plan related to area of responsibility.
• Conduct special projects and prepare reports.

• Strong working knowledge of water and/or wastewater treatment.
• Thorough knowledge of water quality and environmental regulations affecting the business.

• Bachelors degree or a combination of equivalent work experience.
• Minimum of two (2) to four (4) years experience in water, and/or wastewater, and laboratory operations.

• Laboratory environment and treatment plant.

• Full-time, on-site.
• Monday-Friday, 7am-3:30pm.
• On-call responsibility as needed.

• Must hold valid state driver’s license and have acceptable driving record.
• In-state travel is required.

• Must be able to distinguish colors to conduct testing using normal colorimetric methods.

• Champions safety.
• Customer obsessed.
• Cultivates innovation.
• Nimble learning.
• Drives results.
  
  Collaborates.

American Water is firmly committed to Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) and prohibits employment discrimination for employees and applicants based on his or her age, race, color, pregnancy, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, religion, marital status, citizenship, or because they are an individual with a disability, protected veteran or other status protected by federal, state, and local laws.