Environmental Engineer

Miningamigos; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 64,000 - 105,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision

401(k) employer match

Paid time off and holidays

Job summary

Brown and Caldwell’s Chicago office invites an Environmental Engineer with 0–5 years of experience to contribute to studies, strategic plans, and design projects focused on drinking water, solids, and energy. You will support municipal clients across Illinois and southern Wisconsin and collaborate on regional projects, delivering sustainable water solutions with experienced leaders.

You will join a non-hierarchical, collaborative environment with support from project managers.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in environmental engineering or related field is required.

Responsibilities

• Perform technical analyses and support the identification of potential solutions to sustainable water and wastewater management.
• Prepare and review detailed reports pertaining to Environmental Engineering.
• Plan and design effective environmental protection systems to safeguard and enhance public and ecosystem health.
• Prepare comprehensive, facility, and strategic resource management plans or similar.
• Analyze scientific data and conduct quality control checks to provide plans and recommendations that conform to environmental regulations.
• Provide technical support for environmental projects, including modeling of wastewater and drinking water systems, vendor outreach, and permitting support.
• Flexibility to adapt and execute various additional assignments based on evolving needs.

Skills

Environmental engineering basics

Problem solving

Data analysis

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor's degree in environmental engineering or related field

Master's degree in environmental engineering or related field

Job description

Our Chicago, Illinois office has an opening for a self-motivated engineer with 0 to 5 years of experience to work on studies, strategic plans, and design projects related to drinking water and solids and energy projects. The primary focus of this position is to serve municipal clients throughout Illinois and southern Wisconsin, with additional opportunities to collaborate on projects across Brown and Caldwell. In this position, you will help support and deliver exceptional service to our well‑established wastewater/biosolids clients, while also supporting the development of new relationships in the region. This role offers the chance to work alongside experienced industry leaders, engage directly with clients, and play a key role in delivering innovative and sustainable water solutions for our communities.

When you join Brown and Caldwell, you will find that we offer a non‑hierarchical and collaborative work environment intended to support you in doing your best work. You will be trusted and supported to produce quality work by our project managers and technical staff and given the flexibility to manage your work efforts to achieve project objectives. The work we do is interesting, challenging, and impactful for the communities we live in.

Job Summary

The Environmental Engineer role will support a broad range of tasks related to the analysis, planning, and development of solutions that promote environmental protection, water use sustainability, and responsible water resource management. Working under the close supervision of a professional engineer, this role will contribute to technical work that improves environmental and public health outcomes across natural and engineered systems. This engineering position will address environmental and public health protection, mitigation and prevention degradation of water, soils, air quality, and habitats. This role may work in one or more diverse areas including water and wastewater treatment and conveyance, stormwater management, solid waste management, hazardous waste management and related areas. This role may conduct analysis, planning, modeling and design of treatment systems, providing results, recommendations, plan sets, or other engineering deliverables.

Responsibilities

• Perform technical analyses and support the identification of potential solutions to sustainable water and wastewater management.
• Prepare and review detailed reports pertaining to Environmental Engineering.
• Plan and design effective environmental protection systems to safeguard and enhance public and ecosystem health.
• Prepare comprehensive, facility, and strategic resource management plans or similar.
• Analyze scientific data and conduct quality control checks to provide plans and recommendations that conform to environmental regulations.
• Provide technical support for environmental projects. Areas of technical support could include modeling of wastewater and drinking water treatment and delivery systems, vendor outreach to support planning and design, technical analysis to support permitting and regulatory approvals, among others.
• Flexibility to adapt and execute various additional assignments based on evolving needs.

Skills and Competencies

• Basic competency in relevant environmental engineering principles and techniques.
• Possesses foundational problem‑solving skills.
• Ability to analyze and interpret scientific data with attention to detail.
• Excellent communication skills for preparation of reports and presentation of findings.

Experience

• Typically, a minimum of 0‑2 years related work experience in Environmental Engineering or related field.
• Encouraged to certify in the SMS framework in the first six months of being in the role.

Education

• A bachelor’s degree in environmental engineering or related field is required.

Preferred Skills and Experience

• Masters in environmental engineering or related field, or above.
• 2‑5 years experience in solids management or resource recovery.
• 2‑5 years experience in planning, design, and construction of wastewater projects, including experience in hydraulic and pumping calculations, mass balance analysis, specification writing, or vendor coordination.

Salary Range: The anticipated starting pay range for this position is based on the employee’s primary work location and may be more or less depending upon skills, experience, and education. These ranges may be modified in the future.

Location A: $64,000 - $87,000
Location B: $71,000 - $96,000
Location C: $77,000 - $105,000

You can view which BC location applies to you here. If you have any questions, please speak with your Recruiter.

Benefits and Other Compensation: We provide a comprehensive benefits package that promotes employee health, performance, and success which includes medical, dental, vision, short and long‑term disability, life insurance, an employee assistance program, paid time off and parental leave, paid holidays, 401(k) retirement savings plan with employer match, performance‑based bonus eligibility, employee referral bonuses, tuition reimbursement, pet insurance and long‑term care insurance. Click here to see our full list of benefits.

This position is subject to a pre‑employment background check and a pre‑employment drug test.

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