Civil Engineer - Water

Location:

Virginia Beach, VA, US

Company:
Black & Veatch Family of Companies

Black & Veatch is an employee-owned company that puts its people at the center of everything it does and empowers them to grow, explore new possibilities, and use their diverse talents and perspectives to solve humanity’s biggest challenges. With over 100 years of experience in sustainable infrastructure, we build a world of difference through engineering, procurement, consulting, and construction.

Together, we own our company, our future, and our shared success.

As an employee-owned company, our people are Black & Veatch. We put them at the center of everything we do and empower them to grow, explore new possibilities, and use their diverse talents and perspectives to solve humanity’s biggest challenges in an ever‑evolving world.

At Black & Veatch, you’ll be part of work that matters—designing, creating, and building the infrastructure communities rely on every day, from concept through execution. We care about how the work gets done as much as what we build. Safety is built into every decision, and people look out for each other—speaking up, collaborating, and doing the right thing because it affects real lives.

You’ll work alongside teams solving complex challenges and turning ideas into solutions that perform in the real world—gaining hands‑on experience across projects, technologies, and disciplines.

In this role, you will have the opportunity to:

• Focus on large-scale water and wastewater infrastructure projects, leading significant portions of facilities throughout the cycle of design and construction, and startup phases as a technical specialist or lead.
• Take hands‑on involvement in developing reports or technical memos, completing studies, detailed designs, and specifications, collaborating to complete cost estimates, and preparing contract documents.
• Participate in scheduling, budgeting, and contract administration for infrastructure projects, including involvement in business development and preparation of proposals.
• Coordinate with internal and external team members on moderately complex projects.
• Assist with identification of key client interests and drivers on less complex projects.
• Communicate client interests and drivers to project team members and develop approaches to accommodate these concerns in the performance of the work on less complex projects.

As part of BV Operations, your skills will be aligned to projects that support our three market sectors—Governments & Environment, Energy & Process Industries, and Connectivity & Commercial. In roles such as Engineers, Technicians, and Skilled Specialists you will be engaged with exciting projects across the globe. From small community improvements to grand-scale mega projects, you will be building a world of difference through infrastructure growth and development while learning and focusing on your own individual development.

• Perform design of projects from the conceptual and bid phase through design completion for project needs and requirements set by the project managers based on client needs.
• Assist the Engineering Manager in maintaining project schedules and budgets.
• Assist the Engineering Manager in managing sub‑consultants.
• Under the direction of the Engineering Manager, interface directly with the client or sub‑consultants.
• Support business development by writing technical approaches, scopes of work, and presentations to clients.
• Utilize knowledge of regularly used civil concepts, practices, codes, and procedures within the water engineering industry.
• Apply knowledge to complex projects, finding and developing non‑standard design solutions to better serve clients’ project specifications.
• Provide leadership, guidance, and mentorship to less experienced engineers.
• Be responsible for effective communication with other engineering disciplines and the project team.
• Prepare a variety of complex engineering deliverables.
• Perform complex research and develop recommendations for equipment and/or materials selection.
• Prepare complex engineering calculations following standard methods and principles. Manage assigned…