Water Utility Engineer

Job Description

We've assisted many clients throughout Arizona with state-of-the-art designs and regulatory compliance efforts at multiple water and wastewater treatment facilities. We maintain a high level of understanding of the challenges faced by our utility clients and keep abreast of the latest technologies being used in the industry to address these issues. Our highly respected teams of engineers, surveyors, landscape architects, and planners are committed to innovation, sustainability, and reliability that results in the efficient use of the earth's most valuable resource, water.

We have an exciting opportunity for an engineer to join our utility engineering team in our Fort Lauderdale or West Palm Beach office. Our utility engineering team provides assistance with planning, design, and construction for water and wastewater treatment, distribution, collection, and transmission infrastructure projects. We are seeking an experienced, motivated, and talented Engineer to support our utility engineering team.

Responsibilities:

• Perform engineering services, including technical evaluation and design focused on water and wastewater treatment, distribution, collection, and transmission.
• Prepare technical reports, plans, specifications, cost estimates, permit submittals for regulatory compliance and bid packages.
• Perform periodic construction observations of water and wastewater utilities projects.
• Provide technical support services for regulatory compliance by public water and wastewater utilities.
• Responsibilities include: conduct engineering evaluations using water quality data, prepare various reports and technical memoranda, assist with design drawing development, prepare technical specifications, and prepare permit submittals for regulatory compliance.
• Manage various tasks on several concurrent projects and must be able to follow these tasks through to completion within the allocated period of time and the monetary budget assigned.

Qualifications:

• BS in Civil, Chemical, Mechanical or Environmental Engineering 3-10 years of directly relevant experience in water and wastewater treatment, chemistry and process evaluations.
• Application of engineering principles including critical thinking, analysis, and innovative techniques
• Technically competent, a team player and strong verbal and written communications skills.
• Must be self-motivated and work independently to complete work assignments.
• Must be proficient in MS Word and Excel
• Have proficient knowledge of conventional and advanced treatment processes, water chemistry and modeling in water and wastewater utility design and good understanding of current rules and regulations associated with water and wastewater design elements.
• Requires a valid driver's license

Required Education:

• Bachelor's degree in Civil, Chemical or Environmental Engineering
• 3-5 years experience

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master's degree in Civil, Chemical or Environmental Engineering with focus on water and wastewater engineering
• Florida Professional Engineer (PE) registration, ability to acquire a Florida PE license quickly via reciprocity, or an Engineering Intern (EI) ready to take the PE licensure test
• Experience with water reclamation
• Experience with water quality and hydraulic modeling
• Proficient with 3D AutoCad

Licenses & Certifications:

• Required - Arizona Engineer Intern (EI)

My name is Charity Piazza and I am recruiting for this position. Feel free to call me directly at .

All qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, age, color, sex (including pregnancy), religion, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, military status, genetic information, or any other status protected by applicable laws or regulations. GPAC (Growing People and Companies) is an award-winning search firm specializing in placing quality professionals within multiple industries across the United States since 1990. We are extremely competitive, client-focused and realize that our value is in our ability to deliver the right solutions at the right time.