Senior Landfill Leachate Treatment Process Engineer

McKim & Creed, Inc.•Sewickley Heights, PA

About The Position

McKim & Creed is seeking a Senior Landfill Leachate Treatment Process Engineer to join their team and help expand their presence in the solid waste market. This role offers an experienced treatment professional the opportunity to work on multiple active landfill leachate treatment projects and contribute to the growth of the company's solid waste and environmental treatment practice. The successful candidate will work closely with a multidisciplinary team to deliver practical solutions for clients facing complex leachate treatment and water quality challenges. This position is ideal for a senior engineer who desires more than a technical role, offering the chance to influence solution development, project delivery, and shape a growing solid waste practice within an established firm.

Requirements

Strong process engineering experience.
Experience solving difficult treatment problems.
Ability to work collaboratively with multidisciplinary teams.
Experience specifically with landfill leachate treatment is strongly preferred, including familiarity with the unique variability, contaminant loading, operational challenges, and regulatory considerations associated with landfill leachate.
Comfortable moving between high-level treatment strategy and detailed process design.
Comfortable working with clients, operators, vendors, and multidisciplinary engineering teams.

Nice To Haves

Experience with industrial wastewater or other high-strength, complex wastewaters may also be relevant.

Responsibilities

Serve as a senior technical resource for landfill leachate treatment projects ranging from process evaluations and treatability studies through detailed design, construction, startup, and optimization.
Immediately contribute to multiple active leachate treatment projects for landfill and solid waste clients.
Develop and evaluate treatment process alternatives based on leachate characteristics, discharge requirements, operational objectives, lifecycle cost, and site constraints.
Lead or support process design activities including basis-of-design development, process calculations, mass balances, process flow diagrams, P&IDs, equipment sizing and selection, specifications, control narratives, and system layouts.
Evaluate and integrate treatment technologies such as biological treatment, membrane systems, reverse osmosis, activated carbon, advanced oxidation, and other physical/chemical treatment processes.
Address challenging constituents including PFAS, metals, ammonia, organics, dissolved solids, and other conventional and emerging contaminants.
Work closely with equipment vendors and technology providers to evaluate, select, and integrate packaged and vendor-supplied treatment systems.
Collaborate with multidisciplinary engineering teams responsible for civil/site, mechanical, structural, electrical, instrumentation, controls, PLC/SCADA, storage, containment, and supporting infrastructure.
Provide technical leadership during equipment procurement, construction, commissioning, startup, troubleshooting, and system optimization.
Develop strong relationships with landfill owners, operators, solid waste companies, technology providers, and other industry partners.
Support proposals, client development, and strategic pursuits as McKim & Creed continues expanding its presence in the solid waste market.
Mentor engineers and help strengthen the technical capabilities of our growing treatment team.