Lead Electrical Engineer - Water​/Wastewater

Lead Electrical Engineer - Water/Wastewater

Join our team! Our mission is BUILDING COMMUNITIES. IMPROVING LIVES. With a history spanning over 110 years, HR Green has consistently delivered on this mission, establishing ourselves as a trusted partner for our colleagues, clients, and communities alike. Each day, we work to find solutions that inspire our employees and fit our clients' needs to build trust to exceed their expectations.

As a leading player in the industry, we're proud to be ranked No. 168 on Engineering News Record's Top 500 Design Firms list in 2025. Our unwavering dedication to cultivating an exceptional workplace environment has earned us the distinguished honor of being recognized as a Best Place to Work.

We are hiring a Lead Engineer – Electrical on our Water/Wastewater Team! This is a great opportunity for a PE who is interested in working with a dynamic team on a wide range of projects for our Water-Wastewater Team, while mentoring junior team members and ensuring technical success of our projects. You will help find solutions to municipal and industrial water and wastewater challenges.

Projects range from municipal water treatment, wastewater treatment, pumping, conveyance, and private industry work with food and beverage / manufacturing industries. This role will allow you to make significant decisions to treatment systems and infrastructure by designing the electrical systems to support the project design.

• Houston, Texas
• Melbourne, Florida

• As an individual contributor, uses professional judgment to direct and independently complete assigned engineering designs.
• Actively assists the Project Manager, assigns tasks and schedules to Staff Engineers, Project Engineers and non-exempt project team members, answers questions, and monitors progress.
• Completes major design tasks with limited supervision that meet the needs of internal and external customers, primarily design of Water/Wastewater and Utility based projects.
• Checks the accuracy (formal and informal QA/QC) of assigned tasks completed by other engineering and technical staff.
• Makes major design decisions that meet the needs of external customers while coordinating the impact of such decisions on related project efforts.
• Pro-actively identifies technical, schedule or financial issues and seeks resolution from the Project Manager and/or the client, as appropriate to the situation.
• Assists the Client in bidding or contractor selection if authorized by the Project Manager.
• Monitors construction and supervises field personnel assigned to a task, data collection or a specific project.
• Responds to contractor questions and issues and prepares and issues project addenda as needed.
• Recommends and prepares change orders.
• Participates in the creation of engineering services proposals, including the calculation/estimation of time schedules and costs of the proposed work.
• Signs and seals engineering documents as an authorized representative of the company.
• Acts as technical expert on assigned projects when operating as an individual contributor, and acts as Project Manager on projects as assigned.

• Previous water/wastewater experience strongly preferred.
• Must have a bachelor’s or master’s degree in engineering from an accredited four‑year or graduate engineering university in a relevant discipline
• Professionally registered (P.E.) in one or more states in which HR. Green, Inc. conducts business (or have the ability to obtain such registration within six months of employment).
• Possess ten or more years of design/engineering experience and a demonstrated ability to act as an authorized agent of the company to sign engineering documents.
• Possess strong technical verbal and technical writing skills and be able to read technical literature and engineering plans.
• Possess strong analytical and problem‑solving skills and be able to apply professional knowledge to the solution of both routine and non‑routine tasks and engineering activities.
• Proficient knowledge of computer use and office software (Word, Excel, Bluebeam, etc.).
• Working knowledge in office automation, CADD, and engineering automation tools.…