Senior Drinking Water Treatment Engineer

StantecMinneapolis, MN

About The Position

We are hiring a Drinking Water Treatment Engineer to support a variety of municipal drinking water treatment projects in Minnesota and the upper Midwest. The role may include a variety of technical engineering/design tasks as well as business development tasks depending on the experience and interests of the selected candidate.

Requirements

  • Experienced in organizing, planning, and executing drinking water treatment process designs from pursuit through closeout, involving internal personnel, subconsultants, and vendors.
  • Strong verbal and written communication skills.
  • Passion for team building and collaboration.
  • Efficient technical leadership of assigned tasks on multiple concurrent projects.
  • Understand client expectations, budgeting, proposal writing, and producing high quality deliverables.
  • Demonstrated experience, managing, or participating in market and strategic client relationship development campaigns.
  • Demonstrated technical expertise in planning, design, and construction in three or more of the following Water Treatment areas: Integrated water master planning, Conventional water treatment applications, Water supply and storage infrastructure (wells, pump/booster stations, reservoirs, elevated storage), Hydraulic system design and analysis, Advanced treatment, Disinfection systems, Emerging contaminants (Per and Poly Fluoroalkyl Substances).
  • Minimum Bachelor’s degree in a scientific, engineering, or related technical discipline.
  • Minimum 10 years’ relevant professional experience, with at least 3 years of experience managing and/or coordinating water treatment infrastructure piloting, planning, design, and construction projects.
  • Licensed Professional Engineer in the State of Minnesota or ability to achieve within one year of hire.

Responsibilities

  • Become engaged in active project delivery in a client-facing role in the municipal Water and utilities markets in the Midwest United States.
  • Support and lead planning and design phase efforts for drinking water treatment facilities.
  • Support and lead construction administration efforts on active projects including site visits, submittal reviews, and contractor/client interaction.
  • Provide mentorship and leadership for junior staff and also effectively manage multi-disciplined building services teams.
  • Engage in work that spans local, regional and national geographies.
  • Support Stantec’s reputation for innovation and research through participation in conferences, professional associations, and academic partnerships.
  • Support the development of innovative technical solutions for drinking water projects.
  • Prepare scopes of work, budgets, and schedules for projects.
  • Plan, schedule, conduct, or coordinate detailed phases of engineering work.
  • Maintain and enhance our reputation with clients, approval agencies and industry professionals as an outstanding service provider.
  • Maintain consistently high standards of delivery, quality, flexibility, and innovation.
  • Work in a manner to protect the health and safety of Stantec employees, clients, and the public by following company health, safety and security guidelines and policies.
  • Lead people by coaching and mentoring to achieve business and performance goals.
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