Per-MW pricing, regional variance, and cost drivers for owners scoping hyperscale & AI builds.
Salary benchmarks across the 14 mission-critical disciplines.
Hire Water Treatment Project Managers who deliver WTP and WWTP capital programs — membrane, UV, and ozone process packages, DBO, CMAR, and progressive design-build contracts, SRF-funded schedules, and the startup and performance testing that gets a plant accepted. Delivery history verified by reference.
A structured process for the water treatment hire — where a missed milestone surfaces as a consent-decree deadline, a liquidated-damages clause, or a plant that can’t pass performance testing.
30-minute call. Align on plant type and capacity, process train — membrane, UV, ozone, conventional — delivery model, funding context, and start date.
Within 2 weeks we introduce 3–5 Water Treatment Project Managers with commissioned plants behind them, not adjacent civil backgrounds. References from owners, engineers of record, and operators included.
Every placement carries a replacement guarantee. If the hire doesn’t stick, we replace them — that’s true across every engagement model we offer.
A PM who has delivered a membrane train or a UV disinfection retrofit reads submittals differently than one who has poured structures nearby. We shortlist PMs who have carried process packages — equipment procurement, factory testing, installation, startup — and verify it by reference.
DBO, CMAR, progressive design-build, and hard-bid municipal work run on different rhythms. As part of our water infrastructure recruiting practice, we match candidates to your contract structure and your funding context — SRF and WIFIA schedules included.
Water jobs are won or lost at startup. We ask references how performance testing actually went — functional testing, 7-day and 30-day runs, punch-to-acceptance — so the PM on your shortlist has taken plants through the finish, not just to substantial completion.
Named plants and process scopes carried end to end — membrane, UV, ozone, chemical feed, solids handling — with capacities and contract values.
Direct history in your structure: DBO, CMAR, progressive design-build, or design-bid-build with municipal owners and engineers of record.
SRF and WIFIA documentation rhythms, Davis-Bacon labor compliance on funded work, AIS and Build America, Buy America requirements, and long-lead equipment procurement.
Reference-verified startup programs — functional and performance tests, operator training, O&M turnover — with real acceptance dates.
AWWA standards, Ten States Standards where they govern, state drinking-water and environmental agency requirements, and owner design criteria.
Exposure to PFAS remediation scopes — GAC, ion exchange, RO polishing — and the pilot-to-full-scale path many utilities are now funding.
Funding cycles don’t wait on hiring. Tell us the milestone — we’ll shortlist PMs who have hit that cadence before.
Time to shortlist is typically 2 weeks. Total time to placement is typically 3–4 weeks. Narrow asks — say, progressive design-build history on membrane plants above 20 MGD — can add a week of targeted sourcing.
Direct-hire search is a 20% success fee with no upfront fee on single roles — you pay when the hire starts. For multi-hire programs, embedded recruiting and RPO price as a monthly volume-based fee plus a success fee — typically well below stacked contingency fees at volume. Leadership and executive searches route through executive search.
Most US markets run $120,000–$160,000 base. PMs with alternative-delivery history on large treatment programs — DBO and progressive design-build above $100M — typically run $150,000–$185,000, with program-level roles above that.
A Construction Project Manager owns schedule, budget, and coordination on vertical or commercial work. A Water Treatment Project Manager adds the process layer: equipment packages with factory and site acceptance testing, regulatory acceptance by state drinking-water and environmental agencies, and startup on a plant that has to make water from day one. On treatment work, that layer is the job.
Yes. Every placement carries a replacement guarantee, regardless of engagement model. If a placement doesn’t work out inside the guarantee window, we rerun the search and replace them at no additional placement fee.
Yes. PMs plus superintendents, process engineers, startup managers, and project controls route through embedded recruiting or RPO — one accountable recruiting team across the program.
30-minute scoping conversation. We’ll map your plant type, process train, delivery model, and funding milestones — then start sourcing Water Treatment Project Managers with verified history in them.
