Senior Engineer - Process

About the Position

Join the Clean Water Services Research and Innovation team as a process engineer. You will serve our four Water Resource Recovery Facilities and:

• Guide process decisions through all phases of design, startup, operation, and optimization.
• Advise facility planning efforts to ensure treatment capacity needs are met and current and future permit requirements are considered.
• Develop creative, practical approaches to improve treatment reliability, optimize process performance and address future treatment concerns.

As a member of the Research & Innovation team, you will work with a group of highly motivated engineers and scientists to solve problems. You will also work closely across departments including engineering, operations, regulatory affairs, and the water quality laboratory. This is a unique opportunity to work inside an industry leading Water Resource Recovery Utility.

We have one process engineer position available. We have opened the recruitment at both the senior and principal engineer levels and will move forward with the most qualified candidate. Our human resources personnel will evaluate how your work experience and education meets the minimum qualifications for the position. Please ensure your application materials clearly demonstrate work experience and education that meets the stated guidelines.

Please also answer the supplemental question and highlight how you relate to the essential functions and desired qualifications.

If you do not meet the minimum qualifications of the principal process engineer position, you will not be considered for other positions unless you have applied for them. Therefore, if you are uncertain which position to apply for, we encourage you to apply for both.

R&I is a multi-disciplinary team of engineers and scientists with a broad focus both inside and outside the resource recovery facilities. Our process engineers run pilot treatment systems to set process design criteria and execute applied research projects in diverse areas from digital twin development to anaerobic digestion stability. Our wider R&I team applies watershed, river, and collection system models to support decision-making, evaluates impacts of emerging contaminants, and applies molecular techniques to monitor watershed health.

We collaborate closely with work groups across CWS to provide expertise and innovative problem solving to improve utility operations and protect the Tualatin River watershed.

The Senior Engineer – Process posting will remain open until filled.

Evaluates the effectiveness and efficiency of all treatment processes and develops and recommends policies, procedures, and methods to optimize overall plant performance. Serves as a technical resource for operations and engineering studies; conducts process studies and evaluations of processes, and techniques used in wastewater treatment processes and energy and nutrient recovery. (The essential functions listed below are not intended to reflect all duties that may be assigned to this classification.

Clean Water Services (CWS) may augment duties and/or essential functions at its discretion. Additionally, some incumbents may not perform all Essential Functions.)

• Troubleshoots complex process problems to ensure that processes, systems, and/or facility modifications enhance the facility's operation.
• Provides complex design support for technical and contractual requirements; reviews operations processes and plant designs through initial data gathering, analysis of existing systems, initial process design, desktop analysis, lab and pilot scale testing, plan reviews, startup troubleshooting, and long-term optimization; reviews or approves changes to design and contract provisions.
• Provides technical and analytical advice on complex physical, biological, and chemical processes in order to maximize wastewater plant operation efficiency and meet permit requirements; analyzes laboratory and other reports including process efficiency data; identifies causes and remedies of non-routine events; recommends process control strategies and…