Environmental Services Market Sector Leader

Mannik Smith Group is hiring an Environmental Services Market Sector Leader to drive growth and excellence in environmental services across various business units. This senior role involves leading talent development, expanding the client base, and ensuring project delivery for public and private sector clients. The position is remote and requires strategic leadership to align teams and enhance Waggoner's brand in environmental planning, compliance, and sustainability services.
Environmental Services Market Sector LeaderDepartment: Community InfrastructureEmployment Type: Full TimeLocation: Remote- USAReporting To: Scott PhillipsDescriptionWaggoner Engineering, Inc. is seeking an Environmental Services Market Sector Leader to join our team. The Environmental Services Market Sector Leader is a senior strategic-operations leader responsible for growing the firm in the environmental services market sector across all business units - growing talent, building high-performing teams, expanding the client base, and increasing profitable revenue and backlog in the water market. The role will elevate Waggoner’s brand and thought leadership, lead major client pursuits, and ensure excellent, consistent project delivery. Because the role has limited to no direct reports, success depends on leading through leadership influence - aligning Business Unit Leaders, Area Managers, Discipline Leaders, and Client/Project Teams around clear market priorities, development pathways, and quality outcomes for clients.Sector SummaryResponsible for the strategy, growth, and delivery excellence of Waggoner’s Environmental Services Market across all Business Units, serving public- and private-sector clients with environmental planning, permitting, compliance, site investigation, remediation, natural resource services, and related sustainability/resilience needs. The leader serves as the primary market-facing champion for environmental services, helping clients navigate regulatory complexity, reduce risk, advance development and infrastructure programs, restore or redevelop impacted sites, and strengthen environmental stewardship and community outcomes. This framing aligns with how major engineering and environmental consultancies currently position environmental services: a multidisciplinary platform spanning permitting, remediation, compliance, natural resources, and climate/sustainability solutions.Market Sector ScopePrimary clients: Federal, state, and local government agencies; transportation and utility agencies; port, aviation, and energy entities; industrial and commercial owners/operators; developers; and institutional clients with environmental permitting, compliance, remediation, restoration, or redevelopment needs.Primary services: Environmental planning and permitting; NEPA/environmental documentation and agency coordination; environmental compliance and EHS support; site assessment and due diligence; contaminated site investigation and remediation; brownfields/restoration/redevelopment support; PFAS and other emerging-contaminant services; air quality and waste/resource management; natural and cultural resources support; sustainability, resilience, and climate-related environmental advisory services. These service areas closely reflect current market positioning across leading firms in the sector.Boundary (clarity of leadership): The Environmental Services Market Sector Leader leads environmental work where environmental risk management, permitting, compliance, remediation, restoration, or environmental approvals are the primary driver of the client need or project scope. Environmental work that is integral to industrial facilities and operations - including plant-specific permitting/compliance or environmental services embedded within industrial capital programs - is led in coordination with the Industrial Market Sector Leader. Environmental work embedded within public water, wastewater, stormwater, or watershed utility programs is coordinated with the Water Market Sector Leader. Environmental services supporting transportation approvals, corridor studies, or transportation program delivery are coordinated with the Transportation Market Sector Leader. In all overlap situations, the Environmental Services Market Sector Leader works with the applicable Market Sector Leader and Business Unit leadership to define clear lead/support roles for client management, pursuit leadership, and delivery.Key Responsibilities Market Strategy, Growth, and Thought LeadershipDevelop and execute a multi-year market strategy and annual plan (targets, priority clients, services, staffing,…