Lead Process Engineer - Water Market

Requisition : 182706

Job Level: Senior Level

Home District/Group: Kiewit Industrial & Water Engineering

Department: Design Engineering

Market: Water/Wastewater

Employment Type: Full Time

We are hiring Lead Process Engineers to drive the technical development, design integration, and execution of municipal and industrial water and wastewater treatment projects across North America. In this role, you will serve as the process discipline lead on pursuits and projects, guide treatment process selection, develop process design packages, and coordinate with mechanical, civil, structural, electrical, and construction teams to deliver safe, cost-effective, and constructible solutions.

This position is suited to an engineer with 10 or more years of municipal and industrial water and wastewater treatment experience who thrives in a design-build/EPC environment, enjoys solving complex treatment challenges, and translates process engineering into practical, field-ready designs.

Our Process team supports water and wastewater treatment work across the business. Projects may use chemical, physical, and/or biological treatment technologies, including coagulation and flocculation, filtration, UF/RO, chemical precipitation of metals, chemical oxidation and reduction, oil/water separation, and biological or biosolids treatment such as thermal hydrolysis and advanced anaerobic digestion. Work spans municipal and industrial water, petroleum and oil and gas, chemical, power, renewable gas, and data center markets.

This is an opportunity to lead teams and projects and contribute to our growing Water/Wastewater division.

The Kiewit Water Engineering team, which includes process, mechanical, piping, electrical, instrumentation and control, structural, and civil disciplines, is a multi-faceted division of Kiewit with best-in-class technical expertise focused on collaborative Design-Build (progressive and/or fixed price) and EPC delivery models for complex water projects. The team brings project solutions to life across North America in the following areas:

• Water Treatment
• Potable Municipal and Groundwater Desalination
• Advanced Water Reuse
• Groundwater Remediation
• Storm water Recycling
• Industrial Water Treatment
• Wastewater Treatment
• Biosolids Treatment
• Pipelines and Conveyance

Clients are turning to Kiewit during all stages of design-build projects to lead and manage multi-disciplined design teams to work together to improve schedule, track design progress, control costs and minimize risk. We are a high performing team of engineers and designers that leads the water engineering process and collaborates with Kiewit’s construction teams to approach construction-driven engineering with a focus on safe, cost effective, and innovative designs, all working to develop the best possible delivery of water facility projects to our clients.

This role can be based out of one of our major office locations:
Lenexa, Kansas, Lone Tree, Colorado office, Dallas/Fortworth Texas, Houston, Texas. We do provide relocation assistance to Lenexa Kansas only. Remote locations may be considered for Senior level candidates with 15 plus years experience that have subject matter expertise in both Municipal and Industrial Water/WW industries in which we work.

• Provide technical and engineering leadership for industrial water and wastewater facility design, including treatment process evaluation, selection, and optimization. Evaluate full-scale plant operations, pilot studies, and bench studies as required, and identify and evaluate process lifecycle costs.
• Oversee and participate in engineering reports, drawings, and specifications for complex water/wastewater projects, including PFDs, P&IDs, process simulations, datasheets, and engineering calculations such as hydraulics and equipment sizing.
• Perform process systems and hydraulics modeling and scenario studies.
• Resolve technical issues associated with design, construction, equipment, and operations.
• Work with multidisciplinary engineering teams within budget and schedule to execute project design and engineering.
• Interface with clients and partner engineers to support project and business development, deliver project work, and develop long-term relationships. Attend client development activities and functions.
• Coordinate multiple projects simultaneously.
• Provide consultation in specialized areas related to treatment plant planning and design.
• Communicate and present industry trends,…