Careers
Water and resource recovery careers pay competitive, family-sustaining wages at all levels of experience.
Dive Into a Career in the Water Sector
The water sector is changing. You need the right tools to adapt.
Are you looking for a rewarding career with great pay and the chance to give back to your community? A career in water offers the opportunity to deliver, clean, and renew our world’s most essential resource.
Career Center
WEF’s Online Career Center is continually updated with new worldwide employment listings for careers in water and wastewater.
Work for Water
A valuable resource for job seekers, students, and veterans interested in pursuing or advancing careers in the water sector.
Jobs at WEF
WEF is one of the Washington Post’s top 150 workplaces in Washington.
Member Association Jobs
WEF Member Association postings for recruitment of candidates for professional Member Association staff positions.
Water Leadership Institute
The Water Leadership Institute program educates, trains, and provides opportunities that enable developing and emerging leaders to build strong lasting relationships within the water industry.
Where the Water Community Connects
See how WEF connects the people and ideas driving clean water and public health. Membership gives you access to benefits, resources, and a network committed to impact.
Explore All Practice Areas
Biosolids Resource Recovery
Safe and sustainable: Biosolids management transforms wastewater solids into odor-controlled, pathogen-reduced agricultural products, strictly regulated for environmental safety.
Collection Systems and Conveyance
Sanitary sewers safely transport household and commercial wastewater through underground systems, improving public health and meeting modern infrastructure standards.
Government & Regulatory Affairs
Empower water professionals with knowledge and tools to influence public policy-WEF advocacy promotes awareness and engagement on key water issues.
Public Health
The water sector and its systems protect public and ecological health. Using the data that can be collected through smart water technologies provides additional insights to address complex public health issues.
Stormwater & Watershed Management
Take a comprehensive look at how all water resources, including uplands, drainage basins, wetlands, stormwater, surface water, and groundwater interact.
Water & Wastewater Treatment
More than 16,000 publicly owned water resource recovery facilities operate in the United States. Skilled engineers and operators work together to ensure new and updated facilities continue to protect public health and the environment.
Industrial Water Resources
Industries treat and reuse wastewater and process water as well as provide environmentally sustainable wastewater treatment while reducing costs and maintaining value for their businesses.
Operations
From hands-on training and leadership opportunities, such as the WEFTEC Operations Challenge, to online training, such as the Wastewater Treatment Fundamentals series, WEF provides operators with many opportunities to advance on-the-job knowledge and develop their careers.
Utility Management
To respond to myriad daily challenges faced by water and wastewater utility leaders, WEF continuously works with its members and partners to develop various management initiatives, resources, and educational, training, and networking opportunities.