Responsibilities

• Serve as a senior advisor to executive leadership, shaping the firm's narrative and ensuring all messaging aligns with the long-term strategic plan.
• Collaborate to expand and improve company-wide communications across all fronts including digital, social, printed, video and spoken/podcast.
• Understand how AI is impacting all communications and adapting to the changing landscape.
• Lead, develop, and support a growing communications team of 25+ professionals, ensuring alignment with strategic goals, high performance, and consistent delivery across all communication channels.
• Direct media strategy and cultivate senior-level relationships to elevate the firm's visibility in priority markets.
• Develop marketing messages for key project pursuits and coordinate those messages in social media.
• Develop firm-wide internal communication frameworks that build alignment and trust among 2,400+ employees across multiple regions and countries.
• Updating and improving our internal communications.
• Prepare high-level materials for leaders, including speeches, town hall presentations, and thought leadership content.
• Develop social media plans for senior staff on LinkedIn and other social media sites.

Benefits

• Comprehensive health benefits (medical, dental, vision, and prescription plans)
• Pre-tax flexible spending plans for medical, dependent care, and transportation
• Short and long-term disability, and employer paid life insurance
• Paid holidays, floating holidays, and paid time off (PTO)
• Employer-contributed 401(k) plan and additional financial planning support
• Professional growth opportunities, including tuition reimbursement, in-house training, and incentives for professional registration and professional organization memberships

Preferred

• Bachelor’s or Advanced degree in Communications, Journalism, Marketing, Public Relations, or related field.
• 15+ years of progressively responsible communications experience, including leadership roles within engineering, infrastructure, construction, or similar industries.
• Experience leading communications strategy for large, complex, and geographically distributed organizations.
• Proven ability to advise and collaborate with executive leadership.
• Must be capable of working with external partners (clients) to provide communications services.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Strong understanding of digital, social, and internal communications platforms.
• Experience/expertise with AI‑enabled communications tools and emerging trends.
• Ability to work effectively across teams, disciplines, and regions.

About Hazen and Sawyer

• Since 1951, Hazen and Sawyer has focused on two things: providing safe drinking water and controlling water pollution.
• Our range of services encompasses the planning, design, and construction management of water and wastewater-related projects – from clean water treatment, storage, and distribution to wastewater and stormwater collection, treatment, and reuse.
• Our focus brings us exceptional challenges – such as the largest drinking water UV disinfection installation in the world, upgrade of major wastewater treatment plants to reduce nutrient discharges to sensitive receiving waters, and recharging vital drinking water aquifers with highly-treated wastewater effluent, renewing a valuable resource.
• Our focus also makes us home to many of the world’s most knowledgeable and experienced environ