Sr. Engineer - Water Infrastructure

Dudek LLC; San Diego (CA); On-site; USD 105,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player seeks a Senior Engineer to provide innovative planning and design support for water and wastewater projects. This role involves leading a multidisciplinary team to enhance community infrastructure through effective project management and engineering solutions. The ideal candidate will thrive in a collaborative environment, leveraging their expertise to drive impactful projects. With a commitment to sustainability and community engagement, this position offers a unique opportunity to contribute to meaningful initiatives while enjoying a supportive workplace culture that prioritizes professional growth and employee well-being.

Benefits

Medical, Dental, and Vision Coverage

Employee Stock Ownership Program

Generous Paid Time Off (PTO)

Discretionary Bonuses

Dog Friendly Offices

Flexible Work-Life Balance

Yearly Merit Review

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in water and wastewater infrastructure.
• Registered Professional Engineer in California.

Responsibilities

• Lead planning and analysis of water and wastewater facilities.
• Design water treatment processes and facilities.
• Coordinate work within a multidisciplinary team.

Skills

Water Resources Engineering

Civil Engineering

Project Management

Analytical Skills

Communication Skills

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Civil Engineering

Professional Engineer License

Tools

AutoCAD

ArcGIS

Microsoft Office

Job description

Who We Are
Dudek is a leading environmental, planning, and engineering firm that help public and private clients plan, design, and build projects that improve communities’ built and natural infrastructure. Founded in 1980, Dudek has grown steadily to more than 800 professionals across the U.S. and received the Top Workplace Award for 2024.

As a 100% employee-owned company, Dudek’s culture rewards smart, productive team members with ownership, professional development, and financial benefits. We seek creative, pragmatic problem-solvers working at the intersection of science, engineering, regulations, and multiple stakeholders’ interest to help clients achieve project goals.
We encourage collaboration, sustainability, and innovation.

At Dudek, we abide by shared values:
Trust: We trust each other to use good judgment.
Respect: We act professionally and treat each other fairly.
Teamwork: We come together, share openly, and apply diverse perspectives.
Fun: We take our work seriously…not ourselves.
Well-Being: We care about each other’s health, safety, and total wellness.

Our culture is the foundation of who we are and how we work. We empower our employee-owners to invest in our local communities and themselves through initiatives that make Dudek a great place to work! Our cultural programs include:

• DuGreen: Our sustainability initiative, which works to improve our environmental footprint
• DuGood: Our philanthropic initiative, which seeks to support the communities in which we live and work through fundraising challenges, office-based giving and opportunity to take a paid volunteer day each year.
• eDUcate: Our educational outreach program where we aim to foster interest in our work and careers in the environmental and engineering field by participating in educational events in our communities.
• DuWell: Our wellness initiative, aimed at providing education on wellness, benefit resources, and preventive care.

At Dudek, we recognize that different perspectives, inclusivity, trust and belonging build a stronger culture and add value to our firm. Dudek's Employee Resource (ERGs) operate as diversity champions within Dudek and create a safe space for underrepresented employees and their allies to support, collaborate, network, and brainstorm ways to make Dudek’s work community more inclusive. We proudly support our 4 Employee Resource Groups (ERGs):

• Women at Dudek
• Members of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer (LGBTQ+) community
• Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) employees
• Disabled employees (all disabilities, seen / unseen)

Learn more about our culture.

About The Job
Dudek is currently seeking a full-time Senior Engineer in our Engineering Division. This position provides planning and design support as part of a project team for water, wastewater, and recycled water projects, predominantly focused on infrastructure related planning, and design. The ideal candidate would be a registered professional engineer with 5 plus years of experience in water and wastewater infrastructure related civil engineering.This position will be based out of San Diego County.
Water resources professionals at Dudek work on innovative and relevant projects, frequently in a cross-discipline environment.Dudek offers a broad opportunity for personal growth based on an individual’s own performance and initiative.

Proposed salary range: $105,000 to $150,000 annually*

*Final agreed upon compensation will be based on a variety of factors including but not limited to an individual’s related experience, education, certification, skills, and work location.

Learn more about the projects you will have the opportunity to shape.

Who You Are
To thrive at Dudek, you should be comfortable with accountability, collaboration, flexibility while being a resourceful and independent thinker. We look for curious, solution-focused people who can adapt quickly to an ever-changing industry. There is no single way to solve a problem, so we encourage innovation.

Duties and Responsibilities (may include some or all of the below):

• Leading the planning and analysis of water, wastewater and/or recycled water processes and facilities, including capacity analysis, facility plans, alternatives analysis, condition assessment, process evaluations, risk assessment, operations, and maintenance assessments.
• Leading the design of water, wastewater and/or conveyance and treatment processes and facilities, open channel hydraulics, pump stations, reservoirs / storage facilities, treatment equipment (i.e., screens, clarifiers, blowers, dewatering equipment, filters, among others), including development of project plans, specification packages, calculations packages, and construction cost estimates.
• Working in a multidisciplinary team coordinating and delegating work between the project manager, project engineers, and subconultants.
• Support in the development and training of project engineers.
• Working within a project budget and schedule in coordination with the project manager.
• Capability to work in the field, including construction observation, inspections, field measurements, and monitoring equipment setup, as necessary.
• Leading others in providing engineering services during construction, including reviewing contractor RFIs, submittals, change order requests, among others.
• Potential for limited travel within San Diego, Orange County, Riverside, San Bernardino, Los Angeles, Ventura, Imperial, and Santa Barbara counties.
• Technical document preparation.

* As a federal contractor, successful candidates are required to pass the following pre-employment requirements prior to beginning employment: pre - employment drug test and background check.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Civil, Environmental, Mechanical Engineering or a similar discipline.
• 5 plus years engineering experience in planning and design of mechanical and treatment related projects.
• Professional Civil and/or Mechanical Engineer licensed in the State of California.
• Skilled in the use of Microsoft office (Word and Excel), have excellent writing, organizational, communication and interpersonal skills.
• Skilled in the use of design software including ArcGIS and AutoCAD.

The ideal candidate will contribute to and gain experience from Dudek’s qualified team to respond to request for proposals, deliver quality work, build relationships and engage in professional growth opportunities.

Physical Requirements
Working Conditions:

• This job operates in a remote or office-based environment and this role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, printers, etc.
• This job requires occasional project site visits-based outdoors which can include excessive noise, uneven walking surfaces, extreme weather, moving vehicles and equipment.

Physical Requirements: The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met in order to successfully perform the essential functions of the job.

• This job requires working on a computer, sitting or standing for long periods of time in an office or remote office setting.
• This job requires attending meetings, both in person and virtually as well as speaking on the phone with peers, clients, etc. Speaking, hearing and listening are required.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.

*Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Perks of Being a Dudekian
At Dudek we will provide you with a competitive salary in an environment that promotes growth, career development, and a flexible work–life balance. Dudek offers an array of benefits, from medical, dental, and vision coverage, to the discretionary bonuses, based on firmwide, divisional, and individual performance.

We also offer a yearly merit review, an employee stock ownership program, and dog friendly offices! To honor our key value of well-being, Dudek provides generous Paid Time Off (PTO) packages for both salaried and hourly employees. If you’re tired of an overly bureaucratic decision-making process and want to be part of a work culture that puts its employees first, speak with your recruiter to learn more about the great perks of being a Dudekian.

Dudek is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national or ethnic origin, age, disability, protected veteran status, or other characteristics protected by applicable law.

Dudek is a U.S.-based employer. All positions are based in the U.S. and require U.S. work authorization.