Project Water Engineer

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Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets. We are more than 36,000 people in over 70 countries, dedicated to improving quality of life.

Arcadis is searching for a Project Water Engineer to support and grow our Water team in southern California (Los Angeles, CA; Irvine, CA). This candidate will use their expertise and technical knowledge to deliver design work for water, wastewater, and reuse clients in California and across North America.

As a Project Water Engineer you will evaluate, plan, design, and support the management of projects for drinking water, wastewater, and reuse treatment and conveyance (pipelines, treatment, and pumping facilities). You will exercise judgment on work details, make preliminary selections and adaptations of engineering alternatives, and complete technical and report writing with guidance from senior team members.

You will perform fieldwork activities such as site visits, construction inspection, sampling, water quality analyses, asset inventory, flow monitoring set‑up, technology evaluations, and plant operations information, process troubleshooting and optimization. You will support professional engineering services during construction, including construction observation, review of shop drawings, responses to RFI’s, and permit closeouts.

Managing tasks as a project resource, completing allocated activities to meet budget, timeframe and quality objectives and meeting or exceeding client expectations will be expected. You will carry out investigations and analyses to support the development of technical solutions, prepare documentation and reports ensuring accuracy and compliance with Arcadis requirements and relevant national standards and codes of practice.

You will liaise with project managers, team leaders and clients to ensure effective communication on project matters. Contribution to the resolution of technical issues on projects and providing technical guidance to other team members will be crucial. You will also collaborate with other design disciplines to ensure the integrity of the overall design or solution, review completed engineering work to ensure it meets specified standards, and further develop understanding of the services delivered by Arcadis, the clients’ business and the industry sector.

• Detail oriented with knowledge of relevant national standards and codes of practice.
• Ability to provide technical guidance.
• Advanced research, data gathering, technical writing and analysis skills.
• Developing skills including technical, project management, relationship management, sector expertise and commercial awareness.
• Work independently.
• Excellent interpersonal, problem solving, time management and communication skills.

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in an appropriate area of engineering.
• Valid driver’s license with the ability to commute to project sites.
• Minimum 5 years’ experience in engineering and EIT certification.

• PE License in California.
• Master’s Degree in Engineering.
• 8 years of water/reuse industry‑related experience.

Arcadis offers benefits for full time and part time positions. These benefits include medical, dental, and vision, EAP, 401K, STD, LTD, AD&D, life insurance, paid parental leave, reward & recognition program and optional benefits including wellbeing benefits, adoption assistance and tuition reimbursement. We offer nine paid holidays and 15 days PTO that accrue per year. The salary range for this position is $92,530 – $152,675.

Actual salaries will vary based on experience, education, budget, internal equity, project and location.

We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day which is why we take equality and inclusion seriously and hold ourselves to account for our actions. Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people. We are an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer.

Women, minorities, people with disabilities and veterans are strongly encouraged to apply. We are dedicated to a policy of non‑discrimination in employment on any basis including race, creed, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, citizenship status, veteran status or any other basis prohibited by law.