Water Quality Engineer

Arcadis; Boca Raton (FL); On-site; USD 85,000 - 115,000; Full time

Job summary

Arcadis is seeking a motivated Water Quality Engineer to join our Boca Raton, FL team, supporting planning, design, and delivery of municipal water and wastewater infrastructure projects.

You will collaborate with multidisciplinary teams, engage with clients, and advance projects focused on water treatment, conveyance, regulatory compliance, and asset management.

Qualifications

• Minimum 4 years of relevant experience.
• Bachelor's degree in Civil, Environmental, Mechanical or a related field.
• EIT Certification or Professional Engineering (PE) License.

Responsibilities

• Perform engineering evaluations, feasibility studies, master plans, and design for water and wastewater projects.
• Support drinking water and wastewater treatment projects through process evaluations and regulatory compliance assessments.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams and help develop scopes, schedules, and budgets.
• Assist with permitting, regulatory coordination, construction administration, and startup activities.
• Participate in client meetings, workshops, and travel for site visits.

Skills

Project leadership

Client management

Communication

Technical analysis

Education

Bachelor's degree in Civil, Environmental, Mechanical or related field

EIT Certification or PE License

Tools

AutoCAD

Revit

Job description

Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets.

We are more than 34,000 people, in over 30 countries, dedicated to improving quality of life. Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds, together we can solve the world’s most complex challenges and deliver more impact together.

Role description:

Arcadis is seeking a motivated and technically strong Water Quality Engineer to join our growing team in Boca Raton, Florida. This position is ideal for an engineer who is interested in supporting and technical projects that address water quality, treatment, conveyance, reuse, resilience, and regulatory compliance challenges for municipal and utility clients.

Collaborating with our experienced Water Professionals, you will support and drive development of projects, interact and work with clients, and develop your technical capabilities. Arcadis provides multiple onboarding and development programs created for our young professionals that support professional growth and help drive creativeness, innovation, and greater integration within our local, national, and global teams.

Role accountabilities:

In this role, you will support the planning, design, and delivery of municipal water and wastewater infrastructure projects. Working closely with multidisciplinary teams and clients, you will contribute to a variety of engineering assignments from initial studies and design through construction support. This position offers the opportunity to be involved in treatment, conveyance, regulatory compliance, asset management, and emerging contaminants projects while helping deliver innovative solutions for our clients.

• Perform engineering evaluations, feasibility studies, master plans, alternatives analyses, and preliminary and final design for water and wastewater infrastructure projects, including the preparation of technical reports, design calculations, plans, specifications, and construction cost estimates.
• Support drinking water and wastewater treatment projects through process evaluations, optimization studies, PFAS investigations and treatment solutions, pilot testing, regulatory compliance assessments, and implementation planning.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary project teams and support project managers in developing scopes, schedules, budgets, and project deliverables while contributing to successful project execution.
• Assist with permitting, regulatory coordination, construction administration, and startup activities, including shop drawing reviews, RFI responses, site visits, and commissioning support.
• Participate in client meetings, workshops, business development efforts, proposal preparation, and periodic travel for project site visits, conferences, and client engagements.

Qualifications & Experience:

Required Qualifications

• Minimum 4 years of relevant experience
• Bachelor's degree in Civil, Environmental, Mechanical or a related field of study.
• EIT Certification or Professional Engineering (PE) License

Key Skills/Attributes

• Prior experience/training with AutoCAD and/or Revit.
• Project leadership experience including managing overall project delivery expectations, prioritizing tasks, and mentoring.
• Client management skills, including preparation and development of proposals and client relationship building.
• Excellent communication skills both verbal and written.

Preferred Qualifications

Preferred qualifications include five or more years of relevant experience, preferably within a consulting engineering firm, municipal utility, or public sector environment. Experience with PFAS characterization, treatment technologies, regulatory compliance, and risk mitigation strategies related to drinking water, wastewater, residuals, and biosolids management programs is highly desirable. Candidates with construction observation experience and a demonstrated understanding of project delivery and field activities are preferred. A Master of Science or Master of Engineering degree in Civil, Environmental, Mechanical, Chemical Engineering, or a related field is also preferred.

Why Arcadis?

We can only achieve our goals when everyone is empowered to be their best. We believe everyone's contribution matters. It’s why we are pioneering a skills-based approach, where you can harness your unique experience and expertise to carve your career path and maximize the impact we can make together.

You’ll do meaningful work, and no matter what role, you’ll be helping to deliver sustainable solutions for a more prosperous planet. Make your mark, on your career, your colleagues, your clients, your life and the world around you.

Together, we can create a lasting legacy.

Join Arcadis. Create a Legacy.

Our Commitment to Equality, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging

We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day. 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 employer. 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, disability, veteran status, or any other basis prohibited by law.

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 $85,000 - $115,000/year. Actual salaries will vary and are based on several factors, such as experience, education, budget, internal equity, project and location.

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