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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.

Skills and Abilities:

• Detail oriented with knowledge of relevant national standards and codes of practice.
• Ability to provide technical guidance.
• Advanced research, data gathering, technical writing and analysis skills.
• Developing skills including technical, project management, relationship management, sector expertise and commercial awareness.
• Work independently.
• Excellent interpersonal, problem solving, time management and communication skills.

Qualifications & Experience:

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in an appropriate area of engineering,
• Valid driver's license with the ability to commute to project sites.
• Minimum 5 years' of experience in engineering AND EIT Certification 

Preferred Skills:

• PE License in California 
• Master's Degree in Engineering
• 8 years of water/reuse industry-related experience

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 which is why we take equality and inclusion seriously and hold ourselves to account for our actions. 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 and affirmative action employer. Women, minorities, people with disabilities and veterans are strongly encouraged to apply. 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 $105,494 - $158,242. Actual salaries will vary and are based on several factors, such as experience, education, budget, internal equity, project and location.

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