Wastewater Process Engineer

About the position

As an employee-owned company, our people are Black & Veatch. We put them at the center of everything we do and empower them to grow, explore new possibilities and use their diverse talents and perspectives to solve humanity's biggest challenges in an ever-evolving world. With over 100 years of innovation in sustainable infrastructure and our expertise in engineering, procurement, consulting and construction, together we are building a world of difference. In this role, you will have the opportunity to function in a lead wastewater process engineer role as a technical specialist in the areas of conventional wastewater treatment, using processes such as physical/chemical primary treatment, conventional activated sludge, biological nutrient removal, fixed-film processes, membrane bio-reactors (MBR), sidestream treatment, tertiary filtration, and disinfection. You will provide technical guidance over a process team, supervise engineering staff on projects, and collaborate with multi-disciplinary design teams to implement complex treatment solutions.

Responsibilities

• Prepares a variety of complex engineering deliverables, including process models, process/mass balance calculations, design criteria/basis of design memoranda, process flow diagrams, P&IDs, tradeoff studies, and master planning studies.
• Typically supports multiple projects simultaneously with complex technical challenges.
• Serves as a technical specialist with knowledge and skillset providing guidance to project teams in conventional and/or emerging wastewater treatment systems.
• Performs complex research, including applied research activities involving bench, pilot, and full-scale testing to select or assess performance of treatment processes and incorporating the data into process models.
• Develops recommendations for appropriate treatment processes, equipment and/or materials selection.
• Oversees collection, assimilation, analysis, and management of data for process modeling and design work.
• Prepares process models and carries out complex engineering calculations following standard methods and principles.
• Responsible for assisting with identification of key client interests and drivers for ongoing projects and new business prospects.
• Communicates client interests and drivers to project team members and develops creative solutions and approaches to accommodate our clients' goals and objectives.
• Provides support to business development or pursuit activities, including involvement in pre-positioning meetings, proposal development, client interviews, identification of winning sales messages.
• Attends and presents on state-of-the-art wastewater treatment projects and thought leadership ideas at local, regional and national conferences.
• Actively fosters knowledge management and provides mentoring to junior engineers.
• May assist with performance management process, mentoring, recognition, and any performance improvement actions required for junior engineers.
• Participate in coaching opportunities, career development planning, learning/training, and development of junior staff.
• Provides guidance and direction on department design guides, standards, systems, and applicable engineering codes related to water quality and treatment.
• Assists in developing, maintaining and updating engineering standards.
• Provides technical guidance to others regarding projects and disciplines.
• Independently applies knowledge and complies with Black & Veatch quality program relative to assigned tasks.
• May be responsible for ensuring compliance with Black & Veatch quality program.
• Provides related guidance and direction to others.
• Supports continuous improvement and change management efforts.
• Actively coordinates with all other internal/external team members on moderately complex projects.
• Implements resource management strategy.
• Manages engineering resources for small groups.
• Ensures policies, procedures, and processes are effectively implemented and communicated for workgroup.
• Ensures adherence to corporate and division programs.
• May approve expense reports.

Requirements

• Requires a bachelor's degree in engineering from either a recognized accredited program in their home country or the country in which the professional is practicing.
• Minimum of 8 years related work experience.
• Professional engineering license from any of the states in the USA or ability to obtain one within 2 years of employment required.

Nice-to-haves

• Advanced degree (Master's or Doctoral) in civil, environmental, or chemical engineering preferred.
• 10 years of experience in wastewater water treatment with at least 5 years in water quality and treatment.
• Advanced knowledge of process design for treatment of municipal wastewater, engineering design principles and applicable design guides and standards related to assigned engineering discipline.
• Experience with using modern process simulators such as BioWin, GPS-X, Sumo, and/or Simba#.
• Established leadership skills with deep understanding of consulting, project execution, client services, and business development.
• Effective written and oral communications, Drive for Results, Priority Setting, Planning, Delegation, Directing Others, Conflict Management, Informing, Listening, Dealing with Ambiguity, And Building Effective Teams.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation.
• 401K match and benefits that start day 1.
• Flexible work schedules.
• Paid vacation and holiday time.
• Sick time and dependent sick time.
• Company matched 401k plan.
• Adoption reimbursement.
• Vendor discounts.
• Employment referral program.
• AD&D insurance.
• Pre-taxed accounts.
• Voluntary legal plan.
• B&V Credit Union.
• Performance-based bonus program.