Job Description

Overview

We are seeking a Senior Utility and Permit Coordinator (Water Infrastructure) to join our team in Orlando, FL office.

The Senior Utility and Permit Coordinator will be responsible for leading utility coordination, permitting support, stakeholder engagement, and constructability review efforts for large-scale water, wastewater, and utility pipeline projects. This position serves as a critical link between project owners, engineering consultants, regulatory agencies, utility providers, municipalities, construction teams, and community stakeholders throughout project planning, design, permitting, and construction phases.

This position is intended to follow a hybrid work schedule of remote and office work.  For the next three years, it is anticipated that a minimum of 80% of the work will be in and around Winter Haven, Florida with the remainder being in the Orlando, Florida office.

Your role 

• Lead utility coordination efforts with municipalities, utility owners, transportation agencies, and other project stakeholders.
• Review survey data, utility records, and Subsurface Utility Engineering (SUE) investigations to support project planning.
• Coordinate closely with engineering, survey, SUE, environmental, and construction teams throughout project development.
• Identify, evaluate, and resolve utility conflicts affecting pipeline design and construction.
• Manage permitting activities and serve as the primary liaison with local, state, and federal regulatory agencies.
• Facilitate coordination meetings and negotiate agreements with utilities, municipalities, and regulatory agencies.
• Develop and maintain utility conflict tracking logs, permit status reports, and risk registers.
• Perform constructability reviews of pipeline plans, specifications, and contract documents.
• Evaluate proposed construction sequencing, maintenance of service requirements, access constraints, and utility impacts.
• Provide critical and constructive feedback to engineering teams to improve design quality, constructability, and permitting success.
• Support development of permit applications and coordinate responses to agency review comments.
• Represent the project in meetings with municipal staff, elected officials, regulators, and utility providers.
• Prepare and deliver presentations to community groups, property owners, public officials, and other stakeholders.
• Assist construction teams in resolving field utility conflicts, permit compliance issues, and stakeholder concerns during project execution.
• Promote collaboration, consensus-building, and proactive communication among project owners, engineers, contractors, permitting agencies, and the public.
• Maintain meticulous records of utility coordination activities, permit applications, agency correspondence, meeting minutes, utility conflict resolutions, and stakeholder commitments to ensure accurate documentation and project accountability.
• Proactively track critical milestones, identify potential delays, and coordinate with project and construction teams to maintain project delivery objectives.

About you

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Public Administration, Planning, Environmental Sciences, or related field; equivalent experience may be considered.
• Minimum 10 years of experience involving utility coordination, permitting, design, construction, or construction oversight of pipeline infrastructure projects.
• Demonstrated experience with large-diameter water, wastewater, reclaimed water, or utility transmission pipeline projects.
• Experience working directly with municipalities, transportation agencies, permitting authorities, and utility providers.
• Experience reviewing engineering plans, specifications, and construction documents.
• Proven experience conducting public meetings, stakeholder workshops, and executive-level presentations.
• Proven record of utilizing strategic thinking and conflict resolution skills to build consensus among diverse stakeholder groups and produce quality deliverables.
• Strong understanding of utility coordination processes and SUE practices.
• Requires demonstrated knowledge and hands-on expertise in pipeline design and construction practices and the ability to apply that expertise to efficiently coordinate with engineering and construction teams.
• Ability to attend office meetings, field investigations, construction sites, utility coordination meetings, and public workshops. 
• Has strong technical communication skills with both internal teams and external clients, sound judgment in negotiating, communicating and ensuring compliance with regulatory and utility standards. 
• Understands and can communicate risks associated with the progressive design build processes.  Communicates risks and initiates team involvement in mitigating risks to ensure quality, drive decision making, and create positive results for both the Client and the team.
• Excellent written, verbal, facilitation, and negotiation skills.

Rewards & benefits 

At AtkinsRéalis, our values—Safety, Integrity, Collaboration, Innovation, and Excellence—are more than just words. They are the foundation of who we are and how we work. These principles shape our culture, guide our decisions, and inspire us to create an environment where every team member feels empowered to grow, succeed, and make a meaningful impact. 

Depending on your employment status, AtkinsRéalis benefits may include medical, dental, vision, company-paid life and short- and long-term disability benefits, employer-matched 401(k) with 100% vesting, employee stock purchase plan, Paid Time Off, leaves of absences options, flexible work options, recognition and employee satisfaction programs, employee assistance program, and voluntary benefits. You can review our comprehensive benefits page here.  

About AtkinsRéalis 

We're AtkinsRéalis, a world-class engineering services and nuclear organization. We connect people, data and technology to transform the world's infrastructure and energy systems. Together, with our industry partners and clients, and our global team of consultants, designers, engineers and project managers, we can change the world. We're committed to leading our clients across our various end markets to engineer a better future for our planet and its people. 

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Additional information 

Expected compensation range is between $130,000 - $150,000 annually OR $62.00 - $72.00 hourly depending on skills, experience, and geographical location.

Are you ready to expand your career with us? Apply today and help us shape something extraordinary.

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