Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets.
We are more than 36,000 people, in over 70 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 searching for a Project Water Engineer to support and grow our Water team in southern California (Los Angeles, CA; Irvine, CA). This candidate will use their expertise and technical knowledge to deliver design work for water, wastewater, and reuse clients in California and across North America.
We work to protect our natural environment and water resources, while powering our world for future generations. Around the world, we're feeling the effects climate change, rapid urbanization, and loss of biodiversity. The rate at which we're seeing large-scale, unforeseen events such as floods and wildfires, is becoming more frequent. We are here to protect our natural environment and water resources, while powering our world for future generations.
Role accountabilities:
As a Project Water Engineer you will evaluate, plan, design, and support management of projects for drinking water, wastewater, and reuse treatment and conveyance (pipelines, treatment, and pumping facilities). You will need to exercise judgement on details of work and in making preliminary selections and adaptations of engineering alternatives. Completing technical and report writing with guidance from more senior team members will be a key part in your role.
You will perform fieldwork activities such as site visits, construction inspection, sampling, water quality analyses, asset inventory, flow monitoring set-up and monitoring, technology evaluations, and plant operations information, process troubleshooting and optimization. You will support professional engineering services during construction including construction observation, review of shop drawings, responses to request for information (RFI's), and permit closeouts.
Managing tasks as a project resource, completing allocated activities to meet budget, timeframe and quality objectives and meeting or exceeding client expectations will be expected in your position. You will need to carry out investigations and analyses to support the development of technical solutions, as well as prepare documentation and reports ensuring accuracy and compliance with Arcadis requirements and relevant national standards and codes of practice.
You will liaise with project managers/team leaders and clients to ensure effective communication on project matters. Contribution to the resolution of technical issues on projects and providing technical guidance to other team members will be crucial. You will also collaborate with other design disciplines to ensure the integrity of the overall design or solution, and review completed engineering work to ensure it meets specified standards. Further development of understanding the services delivered by Arcadis, of the clients' business and the industry sector will be needed to facilitate networking and to develop personal credibility in the industry.
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