Staff Water Engineer
About The Position
Arcadis is seeking a Staff Water Engineer to support and grow its Water team in East Windsor, New Jersey. The role delivers design work for water and wastewater clients in New York and across North America, including projects involving treatment, conveyance pipelines, and pumping facilities. The engineer evaluates, plans, designs, and supports management of projects; exercises judgment on work details; makes preliminary selections and adaptations of engineering alternatives; and prepares technical reports with guidance from senior team members. The position also includes occasional fieldwork and support of professional engineering services during construction. Working with guidance from senior engineers, the Staff Water Engineer manages assigned tasks as a project resource and completes activities to meet budget, schedule, quality, and client expectations. The role conducts investigations and analyses, develops technical solutions, prepares accurate documentation compliant with Arcadis requirements and applicable standards, contributes to resolving technical issues, and collaborates across disciplines to support the integrity of project designs and solutions.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in an appropriate area of engineering.
- Four years of engineering experience and a PE license.
- Knowledge of relevant national standards and codes of practice.
- Ability to provide technical guidance and work independently.
- Advanced research, data-gathering, technical-writing, and analysis skills.
- Developing technical, project-management, relationship-management, sector-expertise, and commercial-awareness skills.
- Detail-oriented, with excellent interpersonal, problem-solving, time-management, and communication skills.
- Valid driver’s license and ability to commute to project sites.
Responsibilities
- Evaluate, plan, design, and support management of water and wastewater treatment and conveyance projects, including pipelines, treatment facilities, and pumping facilities.
- Exercise judgment on work details and make preliminary selections and adaptations of engineering alternatives.
- Complete technical reports with guidance from senior team members.
- Conduct occasional field activities, including site visits, construction inspection, sampling, water quality analyses, asset inventory, flow-monitoring setup and monitoring, technology evaluations, and gathering plant operations information.
- Support process troubleshooting and optimization.
- Provide professional engineering services during construction, including construction observation, review of submittals and shop drawings, responses to requests for information (RFIs), and permit closeouts.
- Manage assigned tasks as a project resource and complete activities to meet budget, timeframe, quality, and client-expectation objectives.
- Carry out investigations and analyses to support development of technical solutions.
- Prepare accurate documentation and reports in compliance with Arcadis requirements and relevant national standards and codes of practice.
- Liaise with project managers, team leaders, clients, and interdisciplinary colleagues to ensure effective communication on project matters.
- Contribute to resolution of technical issues and provide technical guidance to other team members.
- Collaborate with other design disciplines to ensure the integrity of the overall design or solution.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision benefits.
- Employee assistance program (EAP).
- 401(k).
- Short-term disability (STD) and long-term disability (LTD) coverage.
- AD&D and life insurance.
- Paid parental leave.
- Reward and recognition program.
- Optional wellbeing benefits.
- Adoption assistance.
- Tuition reimbursement.
- Nine paid holidays.
- 15 days of PTO accrued per year.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
