Senior Environmental Engineer

Are you ready to take the next step in your career? Are you a Civil/Environmental Engineer who takes pride in delivering exceptional work? Brown and Caldwell is currently looking for a Civil/Environmental Engineer with project management experience in Water and Wastewater Treatment to join our growing team in San Jose, CA. When you join Brown and Caldwell, you will enjoy a unique and welcoming culture.

You will find that we offer a non-hierarchical, collaborative, and supportive environment, allowing you to do your best work. You will be trusted and supported to produce quality work for our external clients and given the flexibility to manage your own schedule to achieve this. The work we do is interesting, challenging, and wide-ranging in nature, and so is our client base.

Our culture promotes career advancement in a collaborative, and supportive environment, allowing you to advance your career while helping others, and having fun in the process!

• Independently perform technical analyses and evaluate sustainable environmental engineering solutions.
• Prepare, review, and finalize technical reports, calculations, and design documentation.
• Design environmental protection systems and infrastructure in accordance with regulatory and project requirement
• Develop facility, watershed, or resource management plans with defined scopes and objectives. Analyze complex data sets and ensure technical accuracy and regulatory compliance of deliverables.
• Provide technical support for permitting, regulatory approvals, and coordination with vendors and stakeholders
• Support project execution through collaboration with multidisciplinary teams.
• Flexibility to adapt and execute various additional assignments based on evolving needs.

• Analyze and recommend improvements to water and wastewater treatment processes
• Perform treatment plant process modeling
• Perform plant and system hydraulic evaluations
• Support the development of strategies for the water and wastewater market sector in Northern California.
• Lead planning efforts in water treatment, wastewater treatment, pumping, storage and conveyance
• Delegate, sequence and oversee the work of technical staff and engineers performing designs of water treatment systems, wastewater treatment systems, pump stations, tanks, reservoirs, or conveyance systems.
• Assist with and lead business development efforts including positioning, pursuits, and Client management services.
• Support BC’s quality control and quality assurance process
• Lead client and internal meetings to advance project work as an effective communicator
• Prepare written reports and technical memorandums to document analyses and recommendations.
• Participate in office work groups and organizations to benefit the company’s knowledge of issues and to understand client needs.
• May provide mentorship, guidance, support, and knowledge-sharing to help less experienced team members develop their skills and grow within their roles.

• Proficient knowledge of environmental engineering principles, methods, and regulatory frameworks.
• Strong analytical and problem ‑ solving capabilities
• Ability to manage assigned tasks independently and meet project deadlines.
• Clear and effective communication skills for technical and non ‑ technical audiences.

• Typically,a minimum of5yearsofrelated workexperiencein
  
  Environmental
  
  Engineeringor related field.
• Experience in preparation ofplans and permit applications for environmental projects.
• Prior experience in guidance and development of less experienced colleagues.
• Typically certified in the SMS Framework, and progressing through the SMS competencies.

• BS. or B.S. degree in civil or environmental engineering with a minimum of 6 years of related experience in the water and wastewater treatment and conveyance field. Engineers with other degrees such as Chemical or Mechanical may be considered if they have strong experience in municipal or industrial water treatment facility planning and design.
• EIT is required and ability to obtain a P.E in the state of California within the next 6 months is preferred
• Experience leading or supporting competitive…