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How much do water services jobs pay per year?

As of Jun 8, 2026, the average yearly pay for water services in the United States is $86,796.00, according to ZipRecruiter salary data. Most workers in this role earn between $63,500.00 and $110,500.00 per year, depending on experience, location, and employer.

What are the key skills and qualifications needed to thrive in Water Services, and why are they important?

To thrive in Water Services, you need knowledge of water treatment processes, regulatory compliance, and environmental safety, usually supported by relevant technical certifications or degrees in environmental science or engineering. Familiarity with SCADA systems, water testing equipment, and GIS mapping tools is commonly required. Strong problem-solving abilities, attention to detail, and effective teamwork are essential soft skills for this role. These competencies ensure safe, efficient, and regulatory-compliant delivery of water services to the community.

What are water services?

Water services refer to the processes and systems involved in providing clean and safe water to homes, businesses, and industries, as well as the treatment and disposal of wastewater. This includes water supply, water treatment, distribution, wastewater collection, and sewage treatment. Professionals in water services ensure that communities have access to potable water and that environmental standards for water quality are maintained. These services are essential for public health, sanitation, and environmental protection.

What are some common challenges faced by professionals in Water Services, and how can they be addressed?

Professionals in Water Services often encounter challenges such as maintaining aging infrastructure, ensuring regulatory compliance, and responding to emergencies like water main breaks or contamination incidents. Addressing these issues requires a proactive approach, including regular system inspections, ongoing staff training, and strong communication with local authorities and the public. Collaborating with engineers, technicians, and environmental specialists helps ensure that water quality and supply remain reliable and safe for the community.

What is the difference between Water Services vs Water Treatment Plant Operator?

AspectWater ServicesWater Treatment Plant Operator
CertificationsWater distribution licenses, state certificationsWater treatment operator licenses, state certifications
Work EnvironmentMunicipal water systems, distribution networksWater treatment facilities, treatment plants
Employer & IndustryMunicipalities, public utilitiesWater treatment plants, public utilities
Job FocusDistribution, maintenance of water supplyWater purification, treatment process management

Water Services primarily involves maintaining and distributing potable water through municipal systems, focusing on distribution networks and customer service. Water Treatment Plant Operators concentrate on operating and managing water treatment facilities to ensure safe, clean water. While both roles require similar certifications and work within the water industry, their daily tasks and environments differ, with Water Services centered on distribution and Water Treatment Plant Operators on water purification processes.

What cities are hiring for Water Services jobs? Cities with the most Water Services job openings:
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What states have the most Water Services jobs? States with the most job openings for Water Services jobs include:
Infographic showing various Water Services job openings in the United States as of May 2026, with employment types broken down into 2% As Needed, 96% Full Time, 1% Part Time, and 1% Temporary. Highlights an 95% Physical, 2% Hybrid, and 3% Remote job distribution, with an average salary of $86,796 per year, or $41.7 per hour.
Client Manager - Water Services

Client Manager - Water Services

Woodard & Curran

Canton, MA โ€ข On-site, Remote

Full-time

Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, Retirement, PTO

Posted 7 days ago


Job description

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.ย 


What's in it for you?

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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 publicsector 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 longterm partnerships.

You'll collaborate with colleagues who have deep municipal water expertise, established publicsector 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 New England.

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 designbuild and designbuildoperate projects. This creates a direct connection to the realworld 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 wellbeing.

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, solutionoriented approaches.

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Who are we looking for:

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We are looking for a motivated, people-focused municipal water professional who wants to lead, grow, and build something meaningful in the Northeast. 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.

Why this role could be your next move

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, realworld 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 highperforming teams, and help communities across the Northeast 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.

Travel: up to 20% within the New England and Mid-Atlantic region.

Candidate Location: Open to remote work locations; preferred New England.

What will you be doing at Woodard & Curran?ย 

Woodard & Curran's growth is driven by technical excellence and strong client partnerships. As a Client Manager, you will play a critical role in ensuring the team's technical capabilities remain at the forefront of client and business engagements, effectively showcasing our innovative project delivery methods. This highly visible position-both within the firm and in the broader industry-focuses on working with large, complex municipalities to identify and address unmet needs through a thoughtful, solution-oriented approach and a commitment to generating fresh, forward-thinking ideas.

What you will be doing at Woodard & Curran:
    • Grow the municipal water practice across drinking water, wastewater, stormwater, and water resources in the Northeast.
    • Serve as a trusted advisor by understanding municipal operational, regulatory, funding, and infrastructure challenges.
    • Identify client needs and proactively develop solutions aligned with capital planning and longterm priorities.
    • Position the firm early for upcoming work through strong client engagement and insight into municipal planning cycles.
    • Lead or support project delivery with a focus on quality, responsiveness, and client service.
    • Collaborate with technical teams to align solutions with client expectations and deliver highquality outcomes.
    • Lead or support proposals and interviews including scopes, budgets, presentations, and positioning strategies.
    • Shape scopes, budgets, and schedules in partnership with clients and internal teams.
    • Develop account plans and growth strategies aligned with client needs and regional goals.
    • Support healthy account management by helping teams stay aligned on budgets, invoicing, communication, and expectations.
    • Strengthening client relationships and creating opportunities for technical teams to engage and grow.
    • Participate in conferences to build relationships and stay current on emerging technologies and market drivers.
    • Coach and develop staff to support technical and professional growth.
    • Contribute to a collaborative team culture focused on client success and highquality delivery.
What you will need to succeed:
    • 10-20 years of municipal water experience - wastewater, stormwater, drinking water, or water resources consulting.
    • Bachelor's degree in environmental or civil engineering from an accredited program.
    • Strong understanding of municipal decision-making including budgets, boards/commissions, capital planning, procurement, regulatory drivers, and funding programs.
    • Ability to understand client needs and project delivery and identify opportunities to add value over time.
    • Credibility with publicsector clients and ability to build relationships with engineers, operators, public works leaders, utility directors, and municipal stakeholders.
    • Technical strength with interest in broader leadership including client strategy, business development, and regional growth.
    • Growth potential without needing an existing book of business but with ambition, emotional intelligence, and initiative.
    • Peoplefocused and collaborative mindset with creativity and energy for solving complex municipal challenges.
    • Enjoyment of team building and mentoring and bringing the right people together to deliver highquality solutions.
    • Growth mindset with desire for autonomy and visibility and a broader platform to shape their career.
    • Experience supporting proposals and client positioning including scopes, budgets, interviews, and presentations.
    • Desire to expand beyond technical execution into client strategy, practice growth, and leadership.
    • Strong communication and problemsolving skills with the ability to collaborate and build effective teams.
    • Motivation to help grow the organization and the ability to inspire, connect, and develop others.
    • Motivation to help grow an organization and the ability to inspire, connect, and develop others.
$130,000 - $225,000 a year

This role has the option for remote work, and the anticipated pay range is flexible, depending on factors such as the employee's primary work location, skills, experience, and education. The following examples illustrate how the pay range for the same role can vary based on different locations.ย 

Group A (ME, VT) = $130,000 - $180,000

Group B (NH, RI, Northampton, MA, CT) = $145,000 - 205,000

Group C (Andover - Canton, MA - NH):ย  = $170,000 - 225,000

This position's anticipated pay range is provided; the final exempt salary or non-exempt hourly pay will depend on experience level and consider a percentage-based geographic differential based on where the final candidate will be working. Geographic differentials recognize and reflect the cost of labor differences between geographic markets.

Mutual Dispute Resolution (MDR)

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

What this means:

  • MDR applies to both you and the Company
  • Most workplace-related disputes are resolved throughย binding arbitration, rather than court proceedings
  • Certain exceptions are outlined in the full agreement

AS PART OF THE APPLICATION PROCESS, YOU'LL BE REQUIRED TO REVIEW AND ACKNOWLEDGE THE MDR.

ย Review the full agreement here:ย Mutual Dispute Resolution Agreement

Employee Support & Benefits

Retirement Savings:

  • 401(k) Pre-tax or Roth Contributions: The company matches 100% of the first 3% of salary contributed

Time away from work:

  • 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

Coverage and support for your needs and well-being:

  • 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.

Workplace Information

E-Verify Participation

Woodard & Curran participates in the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's E-Verify program to confirm the employment eligibility of all newly hired employees. As part of this process, we display the required Notice of E-Verify Participation and Right to Work posters.ย 

View required Right to Work and E-Verify posters here.

Equal Employment Opportunity & Accessibility

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.

View our Equal Employment Opportunity Policy
View the "Workplace Discrimination is Illegal" posterย 

Inclusion & Belonging

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

As an employee-owned company, we are committed to fostering a respectful and inclusive environment where employees can grow, contribute fully, and deliver meaningful impact.

Recruitment Agency Policy

We do not accept unsolicited resumes from recruitment agencies. Submissions without a signed agreement in place will be considered unsolicited and not eligible for referral fees.

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