Acoustics & Noise Control Specialist Details | Black & Veatch Family of Companies

Staff Acoustics & Noise Control Specialist

In this role as an Staff Acoustics & Noise Control Specialist, you will have the opportunity to:

• Work with a dynamic team within an established global infrastructure consulting and engineering company.
• Work with a team of Acoustic & Noise Control specialists to support project owners in identifying and mitigating risk associated with environmental noise and industrial noise control.
• Join Black & Veatch's Environmental practice focused on ensuring environmental stewardship for our clients.

Our Environmental team is a multidisciplinary team of ecologists, engineers, scientists, project managers, and attorneys working together to identify optimum environmental solutions for our clients. We have provided environmental consulting services in support of projects for over 40 years including a diverse and growing mix of infrastructure projects such as power generation (conventional and renewable) and transmission, oil and gas facilities and pipelines, water and wastewater treatment facilities, data centers, and food and beverage industries.

As a full-service environmental consulting practice, services include impact assessment and planning, regulatory compliance and permitting, wetland and floodplain analysis, waterbody and water quality assessment, air quality permitting and management, environmental remediation, site due diligence, environmental noise assessment, pollution prevention planning, and climate action solutions.

Key responsibilities include:

• Leading the production of multiple environmental noise assessments, acoustical design studies, and industrial noise control evaluations of comprehensive scope for infrastructure projects.
• Managing acoustics and noise control work from scope development through final deliverable, including scope, schedule, budget, technical approach, coordination, and quality of assigned work.
• Leading and performing environmental noise studies supporting project siting, permitting, licensing, independent engineering, design, procurement, construction, and commissioning.
• Leading and performing acoustical design and industrial noise control studies. Developing project noise criteria, equipment sound level specifications, mitigation requirements, test protocols, and noise emissions performance testing programs to demonstrate regulatory, contractual, and design compliance while supporting cost-effective facility design.
• Coordinating preparation and delivery of client-ready technical work products and actively collaborating with project managers, proposal managers, chief engineers, design engineers, clients, facility owners, equipment manufacturers, regulators, and other internal and external team members.
• Routinely leading client interactions, technical meetings, and presentations. Communicating client interests and project drivers to the team and developing practical technical approaches that address those concerns.
• Identifying technical, regulatory, commercial, schedule, and execution risks associated with environmental noise and acoustical design; advising project leadership and recommending mitigative or corrective solutions.
• Supporting or leading business development and pursuit activities, including client engagement, development of comprehensive acoustics and noise control scopes, technical approaches, schedules, staffing plans, cost estimates, and proposals. May manage client relationships within the practice area.
• Authoring and presenting technical papers, guidance, or training related to environmental acoustics, industrial noise control, modeling, measurement, mitigation, or regulatory compliance.

Preferred qualifications include:

• Bachelor's or master's degree in engineering, acoustics, physics, environmental science, or a related technical discipline; specialization or advanced training in acoustics and/or noise control preferred.
• A minimum of 5 years of related experience in acoustical consulting, environmental noise assessment, and/or industrial noise control, with demonstrated capability to function as a lead consultant or technical specialist with minimal supervision.
• Demonstrated experience leading multiple noise or acoustics studies of comprehensive scope and managing assigned scope, schedule, budget, resources, technical quality, and client deliverables.
• Demonstrated experience conducting ambient sound surveys, applying environmental noise regulations and criteria, modeling facility noise emissions, evaluating community impacts, and developing practical mitigation recommendations.
• Experience developing acoustical design criteria, equipment sound level specifications, noise control requirements, test protocols, and compliance or performance testing programs for industrial or infrastructure facilities.
• Ability to identify project risks and issues, exercise sound professional judgment, advise project leadership, and develop mitigative or corrective solutions.
• Experience leading client interactions, technical meetings, and presentations, with the…