Engineering Services Investigator

Date Opened:
Thursday, January 29, 2026 12:00 AMClose Date:
Thursday, February 12, 2026 12:00 AM Department:
Charlotte Water Department Salary: $25.04 - $31.30 Commensurate with Experience
** Welcome to the City of Charlotte
** Charlotte is America’s Queen City, opening her arms to a diverse and inclusive community of residents, businesses and visitors alike. Here you will find a safe, family-oriented city where people work together to help everyone thrive. The mission of the City of Charlotte is to deliver quality public services and promote the safety, health, and quality of life for all residents.

Our guiding principles include:
* Attracting and retaining a skilled and diverse workforce
* Valuing teamwork, openness, accountability, productivity, and employee development
* Providing all customers with courteous, responsive, accessible, and seamless quality services
* Taking initiative to identify, analyze, and solve problems
* Collaborating with stakeholders to make informed decisions
** SUMMARY
* * Charlotte’s local government, with more than 9,000 employees and a total budget of $3.65 billion budget, works hard to ensure that the community will be a winning city for everyone – a truly remarkable place to live, work, learn and play.
Charlotte Water is an enterprise department of the City of Charlotte and one of the largest public water and sewer service providers in the southeast with over 330,000 customer accounts and over 1100 employees. Our service area includes the City of Charlotte, Mecklenburg County and the towns of Huntersville, Cornelius, Davidson, Mint Hill, Matthews and Pineville. Charlotte Water’s FY 26 budget is $651 million and a five-year capital program of $2.2.28 billion.

We enjoy the highest credit ratings from Moody’s and S&P Global as a result of sound financial planning and management and strong support from our City Council. We value competent, skilled candidates with a customer service focus to work in a team environment.##
** SALARY:
**** The salary for this position is $28.17-$31.29 per hour, Commensurate with Experience.**## ##

JOB SUMMARY:

This position coordinates the daily operations of the assigned area or program and completes administrative tasks to support the biosolids and residuals program. Work involves performing agricultural field inspections for compliance with land application permitting requirements and contractual obligations at different sites in North Carolina and South Carolina. The position performs biosolid storage pad inspections to monitor land application contractors' housekeeping practices at Charlotte Water facilities, and coordinates with EMD operations and technical staff on special biosolids and residuals management-related projects.

This position serves as an International Organization for Standardization (ISO) 14001 internal auditor.## ##
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* ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS:

*** Coordinate closely with internal team members including biosolids staff, treatment plant engineering, treatment plant operations, water quality, continuous improvement, and administrative staff.
* Maintains and holds land application certification licensure in North and South Carolina. Serves as a designated backup ORC for Charlotte Water's biosolids land application program. Coordinate closely with external team members including customers and contractors.
* Assist the Utilities Residuals Coordinator with administrative tasks and responding to non-urgent and urgent issues at the water and wastewater treatment facilities, at land application sites, and along routes to landfills or land application sites.
* Travel and perform duties at land application sites in various counties in North Carolina and South Carolina, typically within a 100-mile radius of Charlotte, NC.
* Assist with preparation of regulatory-required annual reports and permit renewals.
* Stay abreast of current wastewater and biosolids related policies and ordinances at the local, state, and federal levels.
* Assists and works directly with customers, contractors, public agencies, and general public on related program requests, inquiries, and instructions.
* Completes administrative tasks to support the biosolids program…