Hydraulic Modeling and Water​/Wastewater Infrastructure Planning Lead

Freese and Nichols is seeking a Hydraulic Modeling and Water/Wastewater Infrastructure Planning Lead to join our team in Houston or Pearland, Texas
. As the Water/Wastewater Modeling and Planning Lead, you will serve as a senior technical leader and trusted advisor, guiding complex planning and modeling efforts while helping shape the long‑term technical direction of the team. You will play a critical role in delivering high‑quality infrastructure solutions while building a lasting technical legacy within a stable, growth‑oriented environment.

• Lead technical delivery for water and wastewater master planning and hydraulic modeling projects, serving as a senior adviser to project teams.
• Provide hydraulic modeling expertise, technical judgment, and QA/QC to ensure high‑quality, defensible deliverables.
• Partner with project managers to align technical execution with scope, schedule, client expectations, and overall project strategy.
• Serve as a technical point of contact for clients, helping identify practical solutions and communicate complex analyses, assumptions, and recommendations.
• Mentor EITs and junior engineers, elevating technical capabilities and supporting professional development across the team.
• Review and guide plan‑level analyses, models, and reports to ensure accuracy, clarity, and quality; lead modeling support for design projects.
• Perform a Senior Project Manager role on selected planning efforts, providing overall technical and project leadership.
• Contribute to proposals, pursuits, technical scopes, and interviews.
• Support internal R&D, innovation, and best‑practice efforts related to planning, modeling tools, and methodologies.
• Collaborate with internal national technical professionals to implement and outline best practices, advance modeling and planning methodologies, and drive consistency across projects.

• Bachelor’s degree in civil, environmental, or related engineering field.
• Professional Engineer (PE) license.
• 6+ years of engineering experience in water, wastewater, or related infrastructure projects.
• Strong experience with water and/or wastewater hydraulic modeling and planning.
• Demonstrated experience in QA/QC and technical review of engineering work.

• Experience leading technical components of water and wastewater master planning projects, sanitary sewer evaluation studies, asset management projects, and impact fee studies.
• Experience mentoring or developing junior engineering staff.
• Experience supporting multiple projects or serving as a technical advisor across teams.
• Familiarity with modeling tools and planning methodologies for municipal infrastructure.
• Interest in serving as a long‑term technical leader within the Houston‑area team.
• Participation in professional and technical organizations.

Besides our comprehensive benefits package, we offer paid overtime for salaried employees, an annual bonus, and access to company cabins in Red River, New Mexico and Banner Elk, North Carolina. We are proud of our flexible work environment which includes a hybrid schedule with up to 40% of remote work, and an alternative work schedule program which provides a day off every other Friday.

Freese and Nichols is firmly committed to Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) and prohibits employment discrimination for employees and applicants based upon race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, pregnancy, genetic information, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other protected category under applicable federal, state, and local laws.