Environmental Engineer - Water Services Group

Job Description

In this role, you will contribute to the design, implementation, and optimization of water and wastewater treatment solutions that help safeguard our natural resources and ensure sustainable water management practices. With a solid foundation in environmental engineering principles, you will collaborate on a variety of challenging projects aimed at improving water quality, enhancing system efficiency, and addressing regulatory compliance.

• Create basic to moderate complexity water and wastewater treatment facilities, water and sewer systems, pipelines, pump stations, remediation sites, solid waste facilities, etc. engineering designs to meet client project requirements.
• Review draft designs and reports for compliance with federal, state, and local regulations, ensuring firm policies and practices are followed.
• Perform site reviews and studies as needed to ensure designs are aligned with location specifications and update design requirements as necessary.
• Perform water quality analyses and modeling.
• Contribute to the firm’s Technical Knowledge Management by developing white papers and technical design documentation of new or special case designs and studies, and submit technical papers and designs for publishing to technical journals.
• Collaborate with sales staff to create proposals in response to current and potential client requests for proposal (RFPs) and review draft proposals for adherence to firm, industry, state, local, and federal regulations and best practices.
• Meet with current and potential future clients to review their current and future design needs, and attend conferences, symposia, etc. to improve the visibility of the firm’s products and services in collaboration with applicable sales staff.
• Provide technical guidance and training to more junior staff, mentor them, and develop them for future growth within the discipline and firm; may supervise the work of junior engineers on project work.

• Bachelor’s degree in Civil, Environmental, or Chemical Engineering or related discipline.
• Certification as an Engineer in Training (EIT) or passing the Fundamentals of Engineering (FE) exam within 18 months of hire or promotion.
• Five years of related experience.
• Domestic and/or international travel may be required (approximately 10%).
• Equivalent additional directly related experience will be considered in lieu of a degree.

• Expert knowledge of computer-aided design and drafting (CADD) 3D and 4D software and practices.
• Expert knowledge of engineering principles of design.
• Expert knowledge of Microsoft business software (Excel, Word, etc.).
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

CDM Smith is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, pregnancy related conditions, childbirth and related medical conditions, sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression), national origin, age, marital status, disability, veteran status, citizenship status, genetic information or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

Minimum: $90,438 – Maximum: $149,219