Qualifications
- Skilled leader and team player capable of building relationships both internally and externally
- Skilled communicator in both oral and written communications
- Skilled at building consensus and cooperation with staff at all skill levels
- Ability to check the work of others for accuracy and completeness and manage time to meet project budget and schedule
- Experienced with the use of hydrologic and hydraulic network modeling and design software, which may include AutoCAD Civil3D, InfoWORKS, PondKing, StormCAD, WaterCAD, Biowin, GPS-X, Visual MINTEQ and HADES, in accordance with expertise
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Civil, Mechanical, Process, Chemical, or Civil/Environmental Engineering from an accredited institution
- Minimum of 5 years of professional experience in water / wastewater treatment design projects
- Illinois Professional Engineering (PE) License
- Typical office environment working with computers and working at a desk for long periods of time
Responsibilities
- Oversee and manage multiple projects, primarily in the Municipal Water/Wastewater/utilities markets in Illinois
- Responsible for large projects of high complexity
- Serves as Engineer-of-Record
- Provides technical leadership for civil related projects, including the management of existing client relationships and bringing in new clients
- Performs on technically complex projects and acts as a technical resource by providing guidance to other team members
- Supervises the work of other engineers, including setting the priorities for their scope of work, their budgets and their schedules for completing the work in conjunction with Project Manager(s)
- May perform or assist Project Manager and/or Project Technical Lead with managing and monitoring financial performance of project budgets
- Review and conduct alternative analyses to support business case evaluations for making project decisions
- Evaluate, select, specify all civil engineered systems or products for a project
- Manage and lead others while working on projects and developing design; assigns, reviews and evaluates work for technical accuracy and completeness; advises on technical problems
- Lead project coordination meetings with internal team members and/or external consultants, owner and contractor, sub-contractors, and vendors
- Lead in client project requirement meetings, value analysis, and cost estimating
- Lead the preparation and coordination of project specifications with construction documents
- Participate in constructability reviews
- Conduct quality assurance and quality control on own projects and projects of peers
- Lead the development of new standards and specifications for the discipline
- Serve as the Project's point of contact with clients, agencies and others to obtain and determine project requirements and approvals
- Remain current on regulatory policy and rule changes and may establish working relationships with regulatory officials
- Engage in leadership in Professional organizations that align with expertise; write technical papers and delivers technical presentations for conference and symposia events
- Develop project scope, budgets, and design approach for all size projects, and support marketing and business development professionals in positioning for potential projects, writing technical portions of proposals, participating in client interviews and supporting negotiations for project contracts
- Assist and/or lead the development of proposals and contract negotiation
- Field work may include exposure to the elements including inclement weather
Benefits
- Benefits Summary: Full-time and part-time employees have access to medical, dental, and vision plans, a wellness program, health saving accounts, flexible spending accounts, 401(k) plan, employee stock purchase program, life and accidental death & dismemberment (AD&D) insurance, short-term/long-term disability plans, emergency travel benefits, tuition reimbursement, professional membership fee coverage and paid family leave
- Employees will receive fifteen paid holidays in each calendar year
- In addition, employees will be eligible to accrue vacation between 10 and 20 days per year and eligible for paid sick leave (and if more generous, in accordance with state and local law)
- Temporary employees have access to 401(k) plans, employee stock purchase program, and paid leave, in accordance with state and local law
