Senior Surface Water Treatment Specialist

Overview

Lead water treatment operations, commissioning, and maintenance for municipal and industrial plants.

Key Responsibilities

• startup commissioning
• facility testing
• troubleshooting
• asset assessment
• drawing review
• client training

Tasks

-Perform startup and commissioning of new water treatment facilities. This work involves you playing a key role in working alongside contractors and engineers to ensure the new equipment functions correctly before handing it over to the operations and maintenance staff. -Perform formal and informal training to help our clients’ treatment plants operate as well as they can operate. -Manage operations and maintenance projects with both municipal and industrial clients. It will involve client interfacing, regulatory reporting, as well as personnel, subcontractor, and maintenance management. -Review drawings for operability review and HazOps analysis with an eye for what it takes to successfully operate a variety of treatment processes successfully. -Support HDR project leaders at the local, state, and regional level on water treatment projects requiring input from Operations Specialists. -Perform operational or maintenance troubleshooting and evaluations on municipal and industrial water facilities. -Participate in the testing of facilities to ensure they are ready for startup and after startup they meet the capacity requirements of the design. -Develop startup and commissioning plans and host workshops to share those ideas with client’s contractors and operators to ensure the plan will work for each specific plant. -Perform condition assessment and asset management tasks on water and wastewater facilities, using state of the art evaluation tools to efficiently capture the information and opinions that you generate.

Requirements

• cmms
• engineering plans
• water license
• engineering degree
• driver's license
• 10+ years

What You Bring

HDR is looking for a motivated, hardworking problem solver to become a full time Senior Surface Water Treatment Specialist to work on both municipal and industrial water treatment facilities. If you are someone who is looking to work on a variety of treatment technologies for multiple treatment plants, then this position will be for you. This individual will work on water treatment projects that can range from small municipalities to some of the most iconic in the United States. Our engineering staff rely heavily upon our Senior Specialist staff to create solutions with better reliability and improved operability for our clients. This job may require 30 to 40% travel, more is possible. Weekend travel is normally not required. -Computerized maintenance and management systems experience required. -Ability to interpret engineering plans and specifications. -High level water treatment operator license or professional engineering license. -Bachelor's degree in engineering -Valid driver’s license due to traveling to client work site locations and HDR offices. -Minimum 10 years field experience in troubleshooting mechanical, electrical, and instrumentation equipment at water treatment facilities and/or resolving water treatment process problems. Additional construction experience is a plus.

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Benefits

Work will involve a base of projects in the southern portion of the central United States but will also include projects in several sites across the country. It provides the opportunity to work on a variety of new and innovative projects and provides a career path that has more growth than typical utility organizations. At HDR, we know work isn’t only about who you work for; it’s also about what you do and how you do it. Led by the strength of our values and a culture shaped by employee ownership, we network with each other, build on each other’s contributions, and collaborate together to make great things possible. When you join HDR, we give you license to do the same. We help you take charge of your career, giving you multiple growth opportunities along the way.

About Hdr

-provides innovative and sustainable solutions for infrastructure, buildings, and the environment. -combines engineering, architecture, and environmental stewardship in a holistic approach. -designing award-winning transit systems, water treatment plants, and energy-efficient buildings. -iconic public buildings and large-scale infrastructure projects.

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