Environmental Engineer

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Would you like to take your wastewater engineering career to the next level? CDM Smith's Bellevue office has an immediate need for an environmental engineer with a strong background in wastewater treatment, conveyance, and pumping system design to support projects in our Water Services Group locally and across the West Coast. This role emphasizes applying wastewater engineering skills to develop planning reports, design calculations, plans, and specifications that meet client requirements.

You'll have the opportunity to learn every day from our highly-skilled technical staff and project managers, participate in our mentoring program, and advance your professional development through our Leadership Academy and extensive training available within CDM Smith University.

This role requires strong wastewater design skills and the ability to communicate and collaborate with local and regional staff across engineering disciplines. You'll lead engineering tasks, coordinate treatment and conveyance designs, and translate technical evaluations into clear, practical recommendations for clients. This position offers increasingly challenging wastewater engineering work, with support to strengthen your technical leadership and grow within our industry.

Your tasks could include:

• With general direction, developing engineering designs and planning reports for wastewater treatment facilities, sewer systems, water reuse facilities, chemical feed systems, pipelines, and pump stations to meet client project requirements
• Evaluating wastewater treatment processes and developing wastewater conveyance, pumping, and associated civil designs and plans
• Reviewing draft designs and reports for compliance with federal, state, and local regulations and signing off on completed designs
• Leading wastewater engineering tasks, performing treatment process and hydraulic design calculations, and preparing design reports, plans, and specifications with oversight by more senior staff and support from junior staff
• Ensuring that firm policies and practices are followed on all designs.
• Performing field activities and site reviews, as needed, to ensure designs are aligned with location specifications
• Providing technical guidance and training to junior staff; mentoring junior staff and developing them for future growth within the discipline and firm
• Delegating to and reviewing work of junior engineers.
• Corresponding/interacting directly with clients and contractors to discuss projects and present engineering designs
• Collaborating with sales staff to create proposals in response to current and potential client requests for proposal
• Review draft proposals for adherence to firm, industry, state, local and federal regulations and best practices
• Meeting with current and potential future clients to review their current and future design needs
• Attending conferences, symposia, etc. to improve the visibility of the firm's products and services in collaboration with applicable sales staff
• Contributes to technical reports and early design documents to support project development.
• Other duties as required

• Expert Knowledge of computer assisted design and drafting (CADD) 3D and 4D software and practices.
• Expert Knowledge of engineer principles of design.
• Expert Knowledge of Microsoft business software (excel, word, etc.).
• Excellent verbal and written communications skills.
• Expert knowledge of federal, state and local regulations

• Bachelor's degree in Civil,…