Director, Municipal
wsbHouston (TX)
About the role
Forge ahead with WSB. WSB is seeking a Municipal Director to join our growing team in Texas. This is an exciting role for someone looking to grow their career with a growing company. This role provides an amazing opportunity to join a dynamic company working on groundbreaking projects across the US. WSB was founded on the understanding that culture drives results, and we've dedicated ourselves to the value of strong relationships, collaboration, and forward-thinking ideas. We inspire each other to discover thoughtful and creative solutions that look beyond the needs of today to the opportunities of tomorrow. We invite you to forge ahead with us. The Director of Municipal Services provides strategic, operational, and technical leadership for our Municipal Engineering practice. In this role, you will oversee multidisciplinary teams and ensure strong performance, collaboration, and delivery excellence. This role translates organizational growth strategies into actionable plans, manages financial and operational outcomes, and ensures the organization is appropriately resourced and aligned to meet project, client, and business development priorities. Serving as a trusted advisor to municipal clients, regulatory agencies, and internal leadership, the Director provides senior oversight of complex infrastructure programs while balancing risk, cost, schedule, quality, and regulatory compliance across diverse systems. The Director leads complex projects and key client relationships while planning 1–3 months ahead to support workforce needs, project delivery, and business development priorities.
What You Will Do:
- Lead a team that includes mid-level leaders, first-level leaders, and/or individual contributors.
- Lead the scaling of regional, functional, and/or client operations.
- Translates overall growth strategy into specific team goals and annual operational plans.
- Secure needed resources and budget for the team.
- Manage high-level policies and builds a collaborative culture.
- Oversee financial performance of the Municipal group and responsible for revenue targets.
- Coach, develop, and mentor staff.
- Manage staff performance, set individual performance goals, conduct performance reviews, and oversee performance improvement plans.
- Responsible for workforce planning, hiring and compensation administration of staff in assigned group.
- May manage all aspects of multi-discipline projects and clients from the proposal process to project closeout
- Work directly with municipal client staff to deliver CIP programs and or projects, potentially on-site in a staff augmentation setting
- Client Relations: Establishing and maintaining relationships with municipal clients, understanding their needs, and ensuring project requirements are met
- Budgeting and Resource Management: Developing project budgets, allocating resources effectively, and monitoring expenditures to ensure cost control
- Risk Assessment and Mitigation: Identifying potential risks and challenges, developing risk mitigation strategies, and resolving issues that may arise during project execution.
- Contract Management: Overseeing contract negotiations, reviewing contractor performance, and ensuring compliance with contractual agreements
- Understanding of alternative funding sources for municipal projects, and ability to secure funding
- What You Will Bring
- Bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering from an accredited school
- Registration as a professional engineer (or the ability to obtain registration within six months)8+ years municipal engineering experience, or direct experience working for a municipality
- Experience working with the City of Houston is preferred
- Our preferred candidate would have experience in managing a variety of multi-disciplinary projects, clients, and staff in central Texas
- A history of developing and maintaining strong client relationships
- The ability and desire to develop an understanding of, or even anticipate the client's needs
Who We Are:
WSB is a design and consulting firm specializing in Transportation, Community Planning, Environmental, Energy, Municipal, and Construction services. We provide solutions for the places, spaces and systems that support our lives. We offer services in more than 50 complementary areas across the nation. Full time WSB employees qualify for competitive compensation and benefits package, including medical insurance, dental insurance, vision insurance, life insurance, company paid short-and long-term disability, 401K with match, paid time off, paid holidays, tuition reimbursement, and opportunities for professional growth and development. Part time employees can participate in the 401K plan and applicable earned paid leave. As an EEO/Affirmative Action Employer, all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran or disability status. WSB strives to ensure that its careers website is accessible to all. If you need assistance completing your online application, please email an Equal Opportunity Employer, WSB is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans. If you need a reasonable accommodation to assist with your job search or application for employment, please e-mail us at In your e-mail, please include a description of the specific accommodation you are requesting as well as the job title and requisition number of the position for which you are applying.
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