Senior Operations Specialist; Water

Senior Operations Specialist (Water)

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At HDR, our employee-owners are fully engaged in creating a welcoming environment where each of us is valued and respected, a place where everyone is empowered to bring their authentic selves and novel ideas to work every day. We foster a culture of inclusion throughout our company and within our communities, and constantly ask ourselves:
What is our impact on the world?

We believe water is more than a resource, it's a shared responsibility. As part of our Water Business Group, you’ll help shape how communities manage water for generations to come. From delivering safe drinking water and treating wastewater responsibly to developing sustainable water supplies and protecting lives and property through flood control, your work will directly support public health, environmental sustainability, and infrastructure resilience.

HDR is looking for an energetic, hard‑working problem solver to become a full time Senior Operations Specialist to work on both municipal and industrial water treatment facilities. This individual will work on water treatment projects that can range from small municipalities to some of the most iconic in the United States. Our engineering staff rely heavily upon our Operations Specialist staff to create solutions with better reliability and improved operability for our clients.

You will not only be a part of our East Region team, but will be a key member of HDR’s nationwide Operations Team. This team is composed of experienced maintenance and operations experts who coordinate to share best practices, experience, and opportunities to utilize every team member’s unique expertise.

• Support HDR project leaders at the local, state, and regional level on water treatment projects requiring input from Operations Specialists.
• Review drawings for operability review and Haz Ops analysis with an eye for what it takes to successfully operate a variety of treatment processes.
• Manage operations and maintenance projects with both municipal and industrial clients, involving client interfacing, regulatory reporting, and personnel, subcontractor, and maintenance management.
• Develop startup and commissioning plans and host workshops to share those ideas with client’s contractors and operators to ensure the plan will work for each specific plant.
• Perform startup and commissioning of new water treatment facilities, playing a key role alongside contractors and engineers to ensure the new equipment functions correctly before handing it over to the operations and maintenance staff.
• Perform formal and informal training to help our clients’ treatment plants operate as well as they can.
• Participate in testing of facilities to ensure they are ready for startup and after startup they meet the capacity requirements of the design.
• Perform condition assessment and asset management tasks on water and wastewater facilities, using state‑of‑the‑art evaluation tools to efficiently capture the information and opinions you generate.
• Perform operational or maintenance troubleshooting and evaluations on municipal and industrial water facilities.

This job may require 30 to 40% travel; weekend travel is normally not required.

• Minimum 10 years field experience in troubleshooting mechanical, electrical, and instrumentation equipment at water treatment facilities and/or resolving water treatment process problems. Additional construction experience is a plus.
• High level water treatment operator license or professional engineering license.
• Ability to interpret engineering plans and specifications.
• Microsoft Office product and computerized maintenance and management systems experience required.
• An attitude and commitment to being an active participant of our employee‑owned culture is a must.
• Valid driver’s license.

• High School diploma or equivalent.
• Microsoft Office product experience.
• General background‑related experience.
• An attitude and commitment to being an active participant of our employee‑owned culture is a must.

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