Principal Engineer Water

Description

• Manage water treatment process and water quality evaluations; provide stakeholders with accurate and relevant information and key recommendations.
• Work closely with teams to deliver solutions for optimized water treatment and distribution system water quality.
• Prepare technical memos, scopes of work, and assist with the preparation of bid proposals.
• 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.
• 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.
• Growing and nurturing external relationships and build and maintain strong networks with key clients, business partners and competitors.
• 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.
• Manage and liaise with equipment suppliers, contractors and sub-contractors working in an integrated team.
• Adhere to quality assurance standards in design.
• Manage a team to undertake technical work following relevant design standards and codes, and to high-quality levels.
• 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.
• 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.
• Liaise with customers, internal and external stakeholders to ensure successful project delivery.
• Leading, mentoring, and supporting the technical development of junior staff.
• Ensure technical excellence and best practice in the delivery of project outputs.
• Successfully manage time and budgets to key project milestones and programs.
• Distribution system water quality troubleshooting to address issues such as disinfection byproducts, nitrification, or lead and copper corrosion.
• Act as subject matter expert in an area of technology, policy, regulation, or operational management for the team.
• Manage and coordinate multiple projects as part of a multidisciplinary design approach.

Requirements

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

Benefits

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

Training + Development

Interview process

Visa Sponsorship

Security clearance