A professional who directs and coordinates activities of workers engaged in installation, maintenance, repair, expansion, and relocation of water distribution and sewage facilities. Responsibilities include:

• Analyzes trends, such as population and industrial growth of area being served to determine adequacy of current facilities and to project community demands for future facilities.
• Develops plans to meet and serve expanding community needs, such as increasing capacity of water storage and filtration facilities, or arranging new sources of water supply.
• Plans methods and sequence of operations to facilitate additions, deletions and modifications to the system.
• Directs activities of subordinate personnel who oversee installation, maintenance, and repair of water distribution and sewage facilities.
• Inspects field projects to confirm conformance to specifications.
• Confers with administrative and technical personnel and personnel of other utilities to coordinate departmental activities.
• Evaluates new developments in materials, tools, and equipment to recommend or deny purchase.
• Prepares budget estimates based on anticipated needs of department.
• For classification of workers concerned only with water supply see supervisor, waterworks; for those concerned only with sewage disposal see supervisor, sewer system.