Senior Environmental/Water Engineer

Job Title - Senior Environmental/Water Engineer
Duration - 09+ Months
Full time Office Project
Location: Houston , TX

 

Job Summary:

Client is seeking a Senior Environmental/Water Engineer to join the engineering department within the Manufacturing and Technology Business Unit (M&T). Assigned to projects to independently develop and review environmental engineering deliverables and separate water treatment deliverables. Environmental work includes environmental basis documents, permit support, discharge criteria, and compliance-related design inputs. Water treatment includes water balances, design criteria, system schematics, equipment specifications, technical requisitions, and bid packages review.

 

Major Responsibilities:

Environmental:

• Plan, execute, and review environmental engineering deliverables for technical accuracy, completeness, and compliance with project and regulatory requirements.
• Develop environmental basis documents, permit support inputs, compliance matrices, discharge criteria summaries, and environmental design inputs for project execution.
• Coordinate with permitting, environmental, engineering, construction, client, and other stakeholders to resolve environmental interfaces, risks, and compliance-related impacts.

Water:

• Plan, execute, and review water treatment deliverables, including water balances, design criteria, system schematics, equipment lists, specifications, and technical requisitions.
• Coordinate water treatment scope with process, mechanical, civil, electrical, I&C, procurement, suppliers, construction, commissioning, validation, and client representatives.
• Provide technical guidance on treatment technology selection, RO pretreatment protection, reject stream interfaces, supplier input needs, and execution impacts.

 

Education and Experience Requirements:

• Requires bachelor’s or higher degree in chemical, environmental, mechanical, or related engineering discipline from an accredited university (or international equivalent) and 8+ years of relevant experience or 12+ years of relevant work experience.
• Minimum 5 years of engineering experience in either environmental engineering or water treatment.
• Professional Engineering license, or ability to obtain registration is preferred.

 

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Strong communication, prioritization, problem-solving, and influencing skills across clients, suppliers, equipment vendors, matrixed engineering teams, and global shared-work teams.

Environmental:

• Strong understanding of environmental engineering principles, permitting support, discharge criteria, waste and wastewater interfaces, regulatory compliance documentation, and environmental design inputs.
• Ability to develop and review environmental deliverables, including basis documents, permit support inputs, compliance matrices, discharge criteria summaries, and interface documentation.
• Familiarity with environmental regulations, client standards, project specifications, and cross-discipline interfaces across design, procurement, construction, commissioning, and startup.

Water:

• Strong understanding of water treatment principles, source water characterization, pretreatment equipment, RO feed requirements, water balances, utility interfaces, and reject stream management.
• Ability to develop and review water treatment deliverables, including calculations, schematics, specifications, requisition packages, supplier data reviews, and design interface documents.
• Familiarity with water treatment system expectations, client standards, applicable codes and standards, and process, mechanical, civil, electrical, I&C, and facilities interfaces.

 

At SPECTRAFORCE, we are committed to maintaining a workplace that ensures fair compensation and wage transparency in adherence with all applicable state and local laws. This position's pay range is $59.35/hr – $68.18/hr.