Project Water Engineer

Role Description

Arcadis is searching for a Project Water Engineer to support and grow our Water team in southern California (Los Angeles, CA; Irvine, CA). This candidate will use their expertise and technical knowledge to deliver design work for water, wastewater, and reuse clients in California and across North America.

As a Project Water Engineer, you will evaluate, plan, design, and support the management of projects for drinking water, wastewater, and reuse treatment and conveyance. You will exercise judgement on details of work and in making preliminary selections and adaptations of engineering alternatives. Completing technical and report writing with guidance from senior team members will be a key part of your role.

You will perform fieldwork activities such as site visits, construction inspection, sampling, water quality analyses, asset inventory, flow monitoring set‑up and monitoring, technology evaluations, plant operations information, process troubleshooting and optimization. You will support professional engineering services during construction including construction observation, review of shop drawings, responses to RFIs, and permit closeouts.

Managing tasks as a project resource, completing allocated activities to meet budget, time‑frame, and quality objectives and meeting or exceeding client expectations will be expected. You will carry out investigations and analyses to support the development of technical solutions, as well as prepare documentation and reports ensuring accuracy and compliance with Arcadis requirements and relevant national standards and codes of practice.

You will liaise with project managers, team leaders and clients to ensure effective communication on project matters. Contribution to the resolution of technical issues on projects and providing technical guidance to other team members will be crucial. You will also collaborate with other design disciplines to ensure the integrity of the overall design or solution, and review completed engineering work to ensure it meets specified standards.

Further development of understanding the services delivered by Arcadis, the clients’ business and the industry sector will be needed to facilitate networking and develop personal credibility in the industry.

• Detail oriented with knowledge of relevant national standards and codes of practice.
• Ability to provide technical guidance.
• Advanced research, data gathering, technical writing and analysis skills.
• Developing skills including technical, project management, relationship management, sector expertise and commercial awareness.
• Work independently.
• Excellent interpersonal, problem solving, time management and communication skills.

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in an appropriate area of engineering.
• Valid driver’s license with the ability to commute to project sites.
• Minimum 5 years’ of experience in engineering AND EIT Certification.

• PE License in California.
• Master’s Degree in Engineering.
• 8 years of water/reuse industry‑related experience.

Arcadis offers benefits for full time and part time positions, including:

• Medical, dental, and vision
• EAP
• 401K
• STD, LTD, AD&D, life insurance
• Paid parental leave
• Reward & recognition program
• Optional wellbeing benefits, adoption assistance and tuition reimbursement
• Nine paid holidays and 15 days PTO that accrue per year

The salary range for this position is $105,494 – $158,242.

We are an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. Women, minorities, people with disabilities and veterans are strongly encouraged to apply. We are dedicated to a policy of non‑discrimination in employment on any basis including race, creed, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, citizenship status, veteran status, or any other basis prohibited by law.