Senior Water/Wastewater Engineer

Dudek
paid time off, profit sharing
United States, California, Oakland
1630 San Pablo Avenue (Show on map)
Apr 06, 2025
Who We Are Dudek is a leading environmental, planning, and engineering firm that help public and private clients plan, design, and build projects that improve communities' built and natural infrastructure. Founded in 1980, Dudek has grown steadily to more than 800 professionals across the U.S. and received the Top Workplace Award for 2024. As a 100% employee-owned company, Dudek's culture rewards smart, productive team members with ownership, professional development, and financial benefits. We seek creative, pragmatic problem-solvers working at the intersection of science, engineering, regulations, and multiple stakeholders' interest to help clients achieve project goals. We encourage collaboration, sustainability, and innovation. At Dudek, we abide by shared values: Trust: We trust each other to use good judgment. Respect: We act professionally and treat each other fairly. Teamwork: We come together, share openly, and apply diverse perspectives. Fun: We take our work seriously...not ourselves. Well-Being: We care about each other's health, safety, and total wellness. Our culture is the foundation of who we are and how we work. We empower our employee-owners to invest in our local communities and themselves through initiatives that make Dudek a great place to work! Our cultural programs include: DuGreen: Our sustainability initiative, which works to improve our environmental footprint DuGood: Our philanthropic initiative, which seeks to support the communities in which we live and work through fundraising challenges, office-based giving and opportunity to take a paid volunteer day each year. eDUcate: Our educational outreach program where we aim to foster interest in our work and careers in the environmental and engineering field by participating in educational events in our communities. DuWell: Our wellness initiative, aimed at providing education on wellness, benefit resources, and preventive care. At Dudek, we recognize that different perspectives, inclusivity, trust and belonging build a stronger culture and add value to our firm. Dudek's Employee Resource (ERGs) operate as diversity champions within Dudek and create a safe space for underrepresented employees and their allies to support, collaborate, network, and brainstorm ways to make Dudek's work community more inclusive. We proudly support our 4 Employee Resource Groups (ERG's): Women at Dudek Members of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer (LGBTQ+) community Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) employees Disabled employees (all disabilities, seen / unseen) Learn more about our culture. About The Job Dudek is currently seeking a full-time Senior Engineer in our Engineering Practice group with specialized experience in wastewater treatment plant planning, design, and rehabilitation. This position provides technical design as part of our overall practice group, which provides full service planning and engineering consulting services for a wide range of water, sewer, recycled water and stormwater infrastructure projects. With over 900 wastewater treatment plants in California alone, processing approximately 4 billion gallons of wastewater daily, the need for engineering consulting on process efficiency, reliability, expansion and rehabilitation could not be greater. This hybrid environment role at Dudek provides for the diversity to support teams across the state while balancing work and personal life. As a senior engineer, you will have the opportunity to: Both lead and support the planning and design of treatment plant capital improvement projects. Be or become the subject matter expert in the areas of conventional wastewater treatment using process such as activated sludge, fixed-film processes, biological nutrient removal, chemical/physical primary treatment, membrane bio-reactors, tertiary filtration, disinfection, and biosolids processing. Provide engineering support services during the construction phases of improvement projects. Be part of a growing consultant team focused on providing much needed support of rehabilitation and improvements to critical and aging infrastructure. Learn more about the projects you will have the opportunity to shape. Who You Are To thrive at Dudek, you should be comfortable with accountability, collaboration, flexibility while being a resourceful and independent thinker. We look for curious, solution-focused people who can adapt quickly to an ever-changing industry. There is no single way to solve a problem, so we encourage innovation. To thrive at Dudek, you should be comfortable with freedom and accountability. We value collaborative, resourceful, and independent thinkers. We look for curious, solution-focused people who are able to adapt quickly to an ever-changing industry. There is no single way to solve a problem, so we support your creative approaches to solve problems. Our staff who find career growth, satisfaction, and long-tenured success at Dudek in a Senior Engineer role are typically people who: * are seeking a more broad, diversified role that includes early career exposure to business development and client relations. * are self-starters and team players with the mentality to get tasks done and keep themselves busy. * have early career interest in learning and gaining exposure to project management both in terms of staffing, financials, and team management as well as technical oversight and managing the completion of project deliverables. Our senior engineers are supported by a team of talented project managers and project engineers, CAD designers, marketing staff, and more. The Dudek culture encourages collaboration to support each other in the successful completion of projects and pursuits for new projects. As an employee-owned corporation, the success of the team as a whole is rewarded through our profit sharing program. Duties and Responsibilities (may include some or all of the below): Serves as a technical specialist with knowledge and skillset providing guidance to project teams in wastewater treatment systems Prepares a variety of complex engineering deliverables, including process models, process/mass balance calculations, design criteria/basis of design memoranda, process flow diagrams, P&IDs, and master planning studies Develops recommendations for appropriate treatment processes, equipment and/or materials selection Oversees collection, analysis, and management of data for process modeling and design work Prepares process models and carries out complex engineering calculations following standard methods and principles Manages assigned budget, schedule, and quality requirements Develops conceptual-level life cycle costs to evaluate treatment options Actively coordinates with internal and external team members for successful project execution Capability to work in the field, including construction observation, inspections, field measurements, and monitoring equipment setup, as necessary. Capability to travel within California including but not limited to meeting with clients, plant site walks, attending conferences and professional organization events, and perform project-related field work, as necessary. Training and delegating tasks as appropriate to team members in order to balance workload and efficiently get project tasks completed. Minimum Requirements: Professional Civil Engineer licensed in the State of California. Bachelor's Degree in Civil, Environmental, or a similar discipline. 8 years engineering experience in related work experience. Skilled in the use of Microsoft office (Word and Excel), have excellent writing, organizational, communication and interpersonal skills. Experience with AutoCAD design software * As a federal contractor, successful candidates are required to pass the following pre-employment requirements prior to beginning employment: pre - employment drug test and background check. Preferred Requirements: 10 years of experience in wastewater treatment with at least 5 years in water quality and treatment (water quality analysis, treatment evaluations, process design, regulatory compliance assessments, etc.). Advanced degree in civil, environmental, or chemical engineering preferred. Advanced knowledge of process design for treatment of municipal wastewater, engineering design principles and applicable design guides and standards related to assigned engineering discipline Effective written and oral communications Physical Requirements Working Conditions: This job operates in a remote or office-based environment and this role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, printers, etc. This job requires occasional project site visits-based outdoors which can include excessive noise, uneven walking surfaces, extreme weather, moving vehicles and equipment. Physical Requirements: The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met in order to successfully perform the essential functions of the job. This job requires working on a computer, sitting or standing for long periods of time in an office or remote office setting. This job requires attending meetings, both in person and virtually as well as speaking on the phone with peers, clients, etc. Speaking, hearing and listening are required. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. Proposed Salary Range: $140,00-200,000/annually* *Final agreed upon compensation will be based on a variety of factors including but not limited to an individual's related experience, education, certifications, skills, and work location. Perks of Being a Dudekian At Dudek we will provide you with a competitive salary in an environment that promotes growth, career development, and a flexible work-life balance. Dudek offers an array of benefits, from medical, dental, and vision coverage, to the discretionary bonuses, based on firmwide, divisional, and individual performance. We also offer a yearly merit review, an employee stock ownership program, and dog friendly offices! To honor our key value of well-being, Dudek provides generous Paid Time Off (PTO) packages for both salaried and hourly employees. If you're tired of an overly bureaucratic decision-making process and want to be part of a work culture that puts its employees first, speak with your recruiter to learn more about the great perks of being a Dudekian. Dudek is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national or ethnic origin, age, disability, protected veteran status, or other characteristics protected by applicable law. Dudek is a U.S.-based employer. All positions are based in the U.S. and require U.S. work authorization.