Water/Wastewater Engineer — Lead Projects & Growth

Kimley-Horn; West Palm Beach (FL); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Retirement plan

Health insurance

Paid time off

Financial wellness

Professional development

Family benefits

Job summary

Kimley-Horn’s West Palm Beach, FL office is seeking a Water and/or Wastewater Engineer with 4+ years of experience to join the Water/Wastewater and Utilities team. This on-site role focuses on designing water transmission and distribution systems, pump stations, and treatment facilities while managing projects and mentoring junior staff.

The position offers opportunities to work with municipalities and regulators, maintain budgets, and lead projects with a client-focused, collaborative approach.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of relevant engineering design experience.
• Professional Engineering (P.E.) License (or ability to obtain within 12 months).
• Relevant municipal engineering experience including designing pump stations, pipelines, water/wastewater treatment facilities.
• Experience performing hydraulic modeling (using programs such as WaterGEMS, SewerGEMS, InfoWater, etc.).
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Positive attitude, self-motivated; sense of urgency to produce high quality work.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and meet deadlines.
• Entrepreneurial spirit with the potential/desire to lead a practice and manage clients and a team.

Responsibilities

• Designing water transmission and distribution systems, pumping stations, water treatment systems, wastewater treatment systems, water/wastewater distribution planning, master planning, and treatment plant rehabilitation and expansions.
• Managing project tasks, project design and permitting, construction administration, and providing regular coordination communications with project team.
• Mentorship to staff with less experience.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary team and external clients to contribute to the successful completion of assigned projects.
• Provide quality assurance and quality control to projects and maintain a high degree of quality sets of plans along with checking the work of others.
• Create work plans and adhere to the budget set by the client and performing strong project management knowledge.
• Attend meetings and communicate with clients, government entities, and various regulatory agencies to fulfill any regulations and requirements relating to projects.
• Monitor project progress, budgets, and schedules.

Skills

Water/Wastewater design

Project management

Communication

Leadership

Education

Professional Engineer (P.E.) License

Tools

WaterGEMS

SewerGEMS

InfoWater

Job description

Kimley-Horn’s West Palm Beach, FL office is seeking a Water and/or Wastewater Engineer with 4+ years of experience to join the Water/Wastewater and Utilities team. This on-site role focuses on designing water transmission and distribution systems, pump stations, and treatment facilities while managing projects and mentoring junior staff.

The position offers opportunities to work with municipalities and regulators, maintain budgets, and lead projects with a client-focused, collaborative approach.