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Black & Veatch · 1 week ago

Senior Wastewater Process Engineer

Atlanta, GA

Full-time

Hybrid

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

11+ years exp

Black & Veatch is an employee-owned company that focuses on sustainable infrastructure and engineering solutions. As a Senior Wastewater Process Engineer, you will lead a team in developing complex wastewater treatment solutions, providing technical guidance, and ensuring compliance with engineering standards.

ConstructionConsultingIndustrial EngineeringInfrastructure

No H1B

Responsibilities

Function in a lead wastewater process engineer role as a technical specialist in the areas of conventional wastewater treatment

Use 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

Provide technical guidance over a process team, supervise engineering staff on projects, and collaborate with multi-disciplinary design teams to implement complex treatment solutions

Provides guidance and direction on department design guides, standards, systems, applicable engineering codes and Black and Veatch policies

Assists in developing, maintaining and updating engineering standards

Provides technical guidance to others regarding projects and disciplines

Independently applies knowledge and complies with Black and Veatch quality program relative to assigned tasks

May be responsible for ensuring compliance with Black and Veatch quality program

Provides related guidance and direction to others

Supports continuous improvement and change management efforts

Prepares a variety of complex engineering deliverables for larger or multiple projects

Performs complex research and develops recommendations for equipment and/or materials selection

Oversees collection, assimilation, and management of data for engineering work

Prepares complex engineering calculations following standard methods and principles

Manages assigned budget, schedule, and quality requirements

Independently applies advanced engineering techniques and analysis problems and methods

Reviews lower level engineering work or assignments

Is responsible for one or more of the following: leading larger production teams; coordinating multiple discipline activity; and serving as the responsible charge for a project

Actively coordinates with all other internal/external team members on moderately complex projects

Responsible for assisting with identification of key client interests and drivers on moderately complex projects and may determine the key clients in some instances

Communicates client interests and drivers to project team members and develops approaches to accommodate these concerns in the performance of the work on moderately complex projects

May offer other services to the clients

Typically provides support to business development or pursuit activities

Serves as a technical specialist and has knowledge and skill set to provide consultation and guidance to project teams in a particular practice area

Typically supports multiple projects on the complex technical challenges

Actively fosters knowledge management and provides mentoring

Develops and applies advanced engineering concepts and approaches to unique engineering problems

Typically assists with performance management process, mentoring, recognition, and any corrective actions required

May participate in career planning, and learning and development

Implements resource management strategy

Manages engineering resources for small groups of a single discipline

Administrative responsibilities may include office administration

Ensures policies, procedures, and processes are effectively implemented and communicated for workgroup

Ensures adherence to corporate and division programs

May approve timesheets and expense reports

Qualification

Wastewater treatmentProcess designEngineering standardsProcess simulatorsLeadership skillsTeam buildingEffective communicationConflict management

Required

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 11 years related work experience

All applicants must be able to complete pre-employment onboarding requirements (if selected) which may include any/all of the following: criminal/civil background check, drug screen, and motor vehicle records search, in compliance with any applicable laws and regulations

Provides guidance and direction on department design guides, standards, systems, applicable engineering codes and Black and Veatch policies

Assists in developing, maintaining and updating engineering standards

Provides technical guidance to others regarding projects and disciplines

Independently applies knowledge and complies with Black and Veatch quality program relative to assigned tasks

May be responsible for ensuring compliance with Black and Veatch quality program

Provides related guidance and direction to others

Supports continuous improvement and change management efforts

Prepares a variety of complex engineering deliverables for larger or multiple projects

Performs complex research and develops recommendations for equipment and/or materials selection

Oversees collection, assimilation, and management of data for engineering work

Prepares complex engineering calculations following standard methods and principles

Manages assigned budget, schedule, and quality requirements

Independently applies advanced engineering techniques and analysis problems and methods

Reviews lower level engineering work or assignments

Is responsible for one or more of the following: leading larger production teams; coordinating multiple discipline activity; and serving as the responsible charge for a project

Actively coordinates with all other internal/external team members on moderately complex projects

Responsible for assisting with identification of key client interests and drivers on moderately complex projects and may determine the key clients in some instances

Communicates client interests and drivers to project team members and develops approaches to accommodate these concerns in the performance of the work on moderately complex projects

May offer other services to the clients

Typically provides support to business development or pursuit activities

Serves as a technical specialist and has knowledge and skill set to provide consultation and guidance to project teams in a particular practice area

Typically supports multiple projects on the complex technical challenges

Actively fosters knowledge management and provides mentoring

Develops and applies advanced engineering concepts and approaches to unique engineering problems

Typically assists with performance management process, mentoring, recognition, and any corrective actions required

May participate in career planning, and learning and development

Implements resource management strategy

Manages engineering resources for small groups of a single discipline

Administrative responsibilities may include office administration

Ensures policies, procedures, and processes are effectively implemented and communicated for workgroup

Ensures adherence to corporate and division programs

May approve timesheets and expense reports

Preferred

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 (water quality analysis, treatment evaluations, process design, regulatory compliance assessments, etc.)

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