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About This Position

Austin Water has been committed to providing safe, reliable, high‑quality, and affordable water services to our customers for over 100 years. We serve more than 1,000,000 people across the Austin metropolitan area, covering more than 548 square miles. Austin Water is recognized for its sustainability, advanced treatment technology, and environmental innovation.

Join our highly supportive and technical team as a Drinking Water Process Engineer at the Ullrich Water Treatment Plant! Ullrich is Austin Water’s largest and most complex drinking water treatment facility, and this role carries significant operational responsibility in a fast‑paced, high‑visibility environment. Whether you bring several years of industry experience or are earlier in your career, we welcome engineers who are committed, curious, and motivated to help safeguard Austin’s drinking water supply.

As a Drinking Water Process Engineer, you will play a critical role in optimizing treatment performance; supporting reliable, efficient operations; and ensuring compliance with all state and federal regulatory requirements. You will work directly with operations and maintenance staff in the field, provide analytical and technical guidance, support capital improvement projects, and help lead innovation, sustainability, and resiliency initiatives at the facility.

• Approves, processes, and seals plans, specifications, construction documents by applying engineering standardization of practices and principles of complex calculations for applied discipline within Local and State regulatory requirements.
• Manages routine, non‑priority engineering projects or programs, requiring technical proficiency as well as coordinative and administrative responsibility.
• Identifies, evaluates, and provides improvement recommendations with preliminary and final designs and design criteria for assigned programs or projects. Assists in the preparation of preliminary and long‑range plans, schedules, estimates, budgets, detailed final plans, specifications, special conditions, and agreements. Provides technical assistance with project progress from design through completion.
• Develops cost estimates, tracks expenditures, prepares feasibility reports and studies for projects. Prepares and assists with preliminary contract documents, specifications, and plans. Prepares final plans for review of specifications, special conditions, and agreements and coordinates and oversees technical work of contractors, affected public agencies, and utilities. Writes technical specifications for construction contracts.
• Reviews plans and approves permits by applying complex engineering standardization of practices and principles for applied discipline within Local and State regulatory requirements.
• Inspects and monitors projects for legal compliance by reviewing work completed by contractors and ensuring compliance to specifications by completing complex calculations that are used to analyze preliminary results of a project.
• Develops, negotiates, and monitors contracts by reviewing and writing contract change orders in the area of technical expertise and may negotiate and recommend financial arrangements for changes to contract.
• Conducts field inspections of work done by contractors to ensure compliance with plans and specifications. Drafts and recommends approval of contract change orders.
• Researches and performs statistical analysis for validation of reports and publication of results in various communication formats.
• Develops standard policies and ordinances for various contracts and/or projects and operating procedures. May provide analysis and recommendation of performance of various personnel assigned by contract or projects.

• Knowledge of diversified, fundamental scientific and civil engineering concepts, phenomena, and relationships, and utilizes such changes in solution of theoretical or practical civil engineering problems.
• Knowledge of advanced mathematical techniques such as trigonometry, calculus, and coordinate geometry.
• Knowledge of modern methods, materials, and…