Senior Drinking Water Treatment Engineer - Hybrid & Growth

Jacobs; Pensacola (FL); Hybrid; USD 151,000 - 195,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work options

Comprehensive benefits

Career development opportunities

Job summary

Jacobs is seeking a Senior Drinking Water Treatment Engineer to join our Florida team. This role allows candidates from across Florida to contribute to water treatment planning, design, and delivery using piloting, modeling, and regulatory expertise.

You will lead technical efforts, mentor engineers, and collaborate across disciplines to deliver safe, reliable drinking water, with hybrid work options and strong career development opportunities.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering; Environmental, Civil, or Mechanical Engineering preferred.
• 10+ years of progressive process engineering and project delivery experience in drinking water treatment.
• Experience with drinking water treatment planning, process evaluations, piloting, modeling, and detailed design.
• Demonstrated understanding of drinking water supply, master planning, and treatment processes and technologies.
• Familiarity with applicable state and federal regulatory frameworks for water treatment.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to explain technical findings and recommendations to clients and project teams.
• Initiative and self-direction, demonstrated through project leadership, professional society involvement, or related activities.
• Current residence in Florida and ability to support projects and clients across the state.

Responsibilities

• Lead or contribute to planning, evaluation, and design for drinking water treatment projects, from early studies through detailed design and delivery.
• Evaluate treatment technologies and alternatives based on source water conditions, treatment goals, regulatory requirements, cost, reliability, and operational needs.
• Develop process designs, calculations, models, technical memoranda, reports, and design criteria.
• Plan and support pilot testing, treatability studies, and process evaluations; interpret results and apply findings to project recommendations.
• Develop and review process flow diagrams, process and instrumentation diagrams, equipment selections, specifications, and construction documents.
• Coordinate with project managers and multidisciplinary teams, including civil, structural, mechanical, electrical, instrumentation and controls, and environmental professionals.
• Provide technical guidance to clients and project teams on drinking water treatment processes, supply considerations, master planning, and applicable regulatory requirements.
• Support project delivery during construction, startup, and commissioning by reviewing submittals, responding to technical questions, and helping resolve process-related issues.
• Build and maintain client relationships, contribute to proposals and interviews, and identify opportunities to support clients’ water programs.
• Mentor and support developing engineers and contribute to technical quality, knowledge sharing, and continuous improvement across the team.

Skills

Project leadership

Communication

Self-direction

Mentoring

Regulatory understanding

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering

Master’s degree in Engineering

Job description

Jacobs is seeking a Senior Drinking Water Treatment Engineer to join our Florida team. This role allows candidates from across Florida to contribute to water treatment planning, design, and delivery using piloting, modeling, and regulatory expertise.

You will lead technical efforts, mentor engineers, and collaborate across disciplines to deliver safe, reliable drinking water, with hybrid work options and strong career development opportunities.