Principal Engineer Water

Overview

Lead drinking water treatment design, evaluation, and optimization projects.

Key Responsibilities

• water treatment
• quality control
• technical leadership
• project management
• stakeholder liaison
• innovation

Tasks

-Manage water treatment process and water quality evaluations; provide stakeholders with accurate and relevant information and key recommendations. -Provide technical leadership for drinking water treatment and distribution system water quality projects, using appropriate engineering methodology to give assurance that intended outcomes are identified and achieved. -Manage a team to undertake technical work following relevant design standards and codes, and to high-quality levels. -Ensure technical excellence and best practice in the delivery of project outputs. -Work closely with teams to deliver solutions for optimized water treatment and distribution system water quality. -Manage and liaise with equipment suppliers, contractors and sub-contractors working in an integrated team. -Adhere to quality assurance standards in design. -Prepare technical memos, scopes of work, and assist with the preparation of bid proposals. -Leading, mentoring, and supporting the technical development of junior staff. -Maintain external accreditations and in-depth understanding of current and emerging regulations and industry best practices through continuing professional development, attending conferences, and reading specialist media. -Act as subject matter expert in an area of technology, policy, regulation, or operational management for the team. -Distribution system water quality troubleshooting to address issues such as disinfection byproducts, nitrification, or lead and copper corrosion. -Manage and coordinate multiple projects as part of a multidisciplinary design approach. -Successfully manage time and budgets to key project milestones and programs. -Liaise with customers, internal and external stakeholders to ensure successful project delivery. -Leadership in compiling quality deliverables for drinking water treatment facility and distribution system water quality assessment, identification of alternatives, bench and pilot scale tests, and preliminary and detailed design. -Growing and nurturing external relationships and build and maintain strong networks with key clients, business partners and competitors. -Identification, evaluation, and implementation of suitable innovative or novel approaches to water treatment process optimization and control, corrosion control strategies, and disinfection byproduct mitigation strategies. -Provide specialist advice on the interpretation of treatment process water quality data, resolving complex or contentious technical queries and issues and enabling others to take appropriate actions.

Requirements

• pe license
• engineering degree
• 15+ years
• water chemistry
• membrane filtration
• advanced oxidation

What You Bring

-Water treatment chemistry, including coagulation, oxidation and disinfection -Bachelor's degree in engineering. Master’s degree preferred. -Sound knowledge of alternative process technologies, strategies, and configurations. -In-depth understanding and knowledge of current drinking water quality regulations as well as developing regulations. -Significant experience in water utility infrastructure projects. -In-depth understanding of water chemistry, including lead and copper corrosion chemistry and disinfection byproducts mitigation. -Significant experience in managing project teams of multiple concurrent projects. -You will ideally have extensive experience mentoring and supervising the work of others. -Experience in startup and monitoring of treatment processes and facilities. -Membrane filtration technologies, including UF, MF, NF and RO systems -Demonstrated ability to develop technical skills amongst junior staff. -15+ years’ experience in drinking water quality and treatment process evaluation, design and optimization. -Quality assurance following the relevant company Check, Review and Approve processes and QA management requirements. -Proficiency in developing bench and pilot scale testing protocol to select appropriate process strategies and formulate suitable basis of design for implementation. -Residuals treatment approaches, such as thickening and dewatering -Advanced oxidation techniques such as UV AOP, Ozone and Ozone AOP -Conventional and high-rate clarification technologies such as DAF, ballasted flocculation, plate settlers, tube settlers and traditional sedimentation -Present at industry association conferences and author publications. -Ability to network within a regional and global organization. -Demonstrated innovation and creative thinking. -Disinfection methods, including both chemical and UV processes, and disinfection byproduct reduction strategies -Professional engineering license (PE) in any State with eligibility for reciprocal licensing in New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania.

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Benefits

-Conventional filtration facilities, including dual media filtration, GAC filtration and slow sand filtration

About Mott Macdonald

-Delivering complex projects that require both technical expertise and strategic vision. -Design of major infrastructure and transport systems. -Specializing in sustainable solutions to address challenges and capitalize on opportunities. -History built on innovation and forward-thinking engineering, consistently delivering impactful results.

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