Environmental Engineer

Brown and Caldwell•Chicago, IL

6d•$64,000 - $105,000•Onsite

About The Position

Our Chicago, Illinois office has an opening for a self-motivated engineer with 0 to 5 years of experience to work on studies, strategic plans, and design projects related to drinking water and solids and energy projects. The primary focus of this position is to serve municipal clients throughout Illinois and southern Wisconsin, with additional opportunities to collaborate on projects across Brown and Caldwell. In this position, you will help support and deliver exceptional service to our well-established wastewater/biosolids clients, while also supporting the development of new relationships in the region. This role offers the chance to work alongside experienced industry leaders, engage directly with clients, and play a key role in delivering innovative and sustainable water solutions for our communities. When you join Brown and Caldwell, you will find that we offer a non-hierarchical and collaborative work environment intended to support you in doing your best work. You will be trusted and supported to produce quality work by our project managers and technical staff and given the flexibility to manage your work efforts to achieve project objectives. The work we do is interesting, challenging, and impactful for the communities we live in. JOB SUMMARY The Environmental Engineer role will support a broad range of tasks related to the analysis, planning, and development of solutions that promote environmental protection, water use sustainability, and responsible water resource management. Working under the close supervision of a professional engineer, this role will contribute to technical work that improves environmental and public health outcomes across natural and engineered systems. This engineering position will address environmental and public health protection, mitigation and prevention degradation of water, soils, air quality, and habitats. This role may work in one or more diverse areas including water and wastewater treatment and conveyance, stormwater management, solid waste management, hazardous waste management and related areas. This role may conduct analysis, planning, modeling and design of treatment systems, providing results, recommendations, plan sets, or other engineering deliverables.

Requirements

Basic competency in relevant environmental engineering principles and techniques.
Possesses foundational problem-solving skills.
Ability to analyze and interpret scientific data with attention to detail.
Excellent communication skills for preparation of reports and presentation of findings.
Typically, a minimum of 0-2 years related work experience in Environmental Engineering or related field.
Encouraged to certify in the SMS framework in the first six months of being in the role.
A bachelor’s degree in environmental engineering or related field is required.

Nice To Haves

Masters in environmental engineering or related field, or above.
2-5 years experience in solids management or resource recovery
2-5 years experience in planning, design, and construction of wastewater projects, including experience in hydraulic and pumping calculations, mass balance analysis, specification writing, or vendor coordination.

Responsibilities

Perform technical analyses and support the identification of potential solutions to sustainable water and wastewater management.
Prepare and review detailed reports pertaining to Environmental Engineering.
Plan and design effective environmental protection systems to safeguard and enhance public and ecosystem health.
Prepare comprehensive, facility, and strategic resource management plans or similar
Analyze scientific data and conduct quality control checks to provide plans and recommendations that conform to environmental regulations
Provide technical support for environmental projects. Areas of technical support could include modeling of wastewater and drinking water treatment and delivery systems, vendor outreach to support planning and design, technical analysis to support permitting and regulatory approvals, among others.
Flexibility to adapt and execute various additional assignments based on evolving needs.