Senior Process Design Engineer; Technical Lead

Position: Senior Process Design Engineer (Technical Lead)
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Federal Way, WA, USAPay: USD 140000 - 200000 (Salary)
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Technical Professional - Engineers

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Salary Founded in 1919, KJ has always looked to the future. With a talented team of professionals and a culture of continuous improvement, we deliver exceptional engineering and environmental consulting services today, with a focus on innovation and sustainability. Using new advanced analytics, technology, and tools, KJ improves designs, reduces risk, and finds better ways to deliver projects. KJ is at the forefront of developing sustainable solutions for clients, including green infrastructure design, strategies to reduce energy use and environmental impacts, and award-winning water reuse projects.

We are known for our dedication to industry-leading client service and tailored solutions. Kennedy Jenks is seeking a Senior Process Design Engineer in Washington to lead complex industrial water and wastewater process design work, guide multidisciplinary delivery teams, and help clients develop practical, sustainable, and efficient solutions across diverse market sectors.

This role offers the opportunity to shape process design strategy, support delivery from planning through startup, and contribute to the growth of KJ’s industrial water and wastewater practice. As an employee-owned firm, KJ offers you the opportunity to make a meaningful impact on our projects, our clients, and the future of our company. What You’ll Do As a Senior Process Design Engineer (Technical Lead), you’ll contribute across technical leadership, project delivery, client engagement, and collaboration.

Lead process design strategy:
Serve as Project Technical Lead on complex industrial engineering projects, including wastewater, facilities engineering, and metals finishing work. Develop and test technical solutions:
Establish process design approaches, develop process flow diagrams, guide water and mass balances, and direct bench and pilot testing for complex treatment systems. Evaluate alternatives:
Prepare options analyses and detailed process design recommendations that balance performance, cost, constructability, and sustainability. Coordinate project delivery:
Align technical disciplines, project teams, and client priorities from planning and design through construction, commissioning, and startup. Support project development and client relationships:
Support scope, schedule, fee development, negotiation, staffing, and service expansion opportunities with existing clients. Collaborate across KJ:
Partner with multidisciplinary teams and travel to client sites, project locations, and KJ offices as needed. What Makes This Role Different Technical influence:
Shape solutions for complex industrial water and wastewater challenges where strong process design decisions improve efficiency, reliability, and long-term client outcomes. Full lifecycle impact:
Influence projects from early planning and alternatives analysis through design, construction, commissioning, and startup, creating continuity between strategy and execution. Practice growth:
Support client relationships, strengthen KJ’s industrial water and wastewater capabilities, and contribute to sustainable, high-impact project delivery. What You Bring Technical leadership and process knowledge:
Ability to guide process design decisions, advise project teams, and apply industrial water and wastewater treatment knowledge to complex technical challenges. Project delivery perspective:
Understanding of how technical decisions support successful delivery across planning, design, construction, commissioning, and startup. Client and team communication:
Ability to collaborate clearly with clients, multidisciplinary teams, and internal stakeholders.…