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Principal Engineer - Water/Wastewater

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Stanley Consultants is an award-winning and industry-leading global consulting engineering firm, with an unmatched commitment to culture, values, and ethics. We are dedicated to client experience and solve the most complex challenges to create a sustainable, connected, and enriched world for all. As the world changes, Stanley strategically evolves with it, integrating the latest technology, innovation, and resiliency practices.

With over a century of experience serving the energy, federal government, transportation, and water sectors, we have helped improve lives and shape the infrastructure systems that connect us. As an employee-owned organization with a People First approach, we stand apart from other engineering consulting and services firms. At Stanley, your voice counts, your growth matters, and your success is our success.

Stanley Consultants offers flexible work options, competitive pay and great benefits, a strong sense of community, and the chance to build a meaningful, long-term career!

Job title - Principal Engineer, Water/Wastewater

Location - Remote

Requisition ID - 11420

Stanley Consultants is seeking a Principal Water/Wastewater Engineer to support the continued growth and delivery of municipal and industrial water and wastewater projects throughout the United States.

This remote position will provide technical and project leadership throughout the complete infrastructure lifecycle, including capital planning, engineering design, design-build delivery, construction administration, startup, commissioning, operations, maintenance, and asset optimization. The successful candidate will have experience with municipal and industrial water and wastewater systems, capital improvement programs, treatment-process evaluation, operational performance, regulatory compliance, and owner-side representation.

Although the position is remote, the Principal Water/Wastewater Engineer will be expected to maintain regular communication with clients and project teams, travel to client and project locations, and collaborate effectively across multiple Stanley Consultants offices and disciplines.

What You Will Be Doing:

  • Lead the planning, analysis, design, construction, startup, operation, rehabilitation, and optimization of municipal, federal, and industrial water and wastewater systems.
  • Serve as Project Manager, Technical Lead, Engineer of Record, or Principal-in-Charge, as appropriate for individual assignments.
  • Develop facility master plans, capital improvement recommendations, lifecycle evaluations, budgets, schedules, and implementation strategies.
  • Lead design-build, design-build-operate-maintain, retrofit, rehabilitation, and conventional design-bid-build projects.
  • Perform or direct process analysis, treatment optimization, technology evaluation, chemical trials, equipment selection, and value engineering.
  • Lead projects involving: Municipal, commercial, and industrial water and wastewater systems Wastewater collection, pumping, treatment, and biosolids management Treatment-plant rehabilitation, retrofit, and operational optimization Industrial wastewater characterization, pretreatment, treatment, reuse, and discharge Physical, chemical, and biological treatment processes, controls, and chemical-feed systems Asset management, CMMS, condition assessment, resilience, and capital planning System testing, startup, commissioning, and operational transition Environmental permitting, NPDES compliance, and federal infrastructure contracts High-strength wastewater, water reuse, recovery, and zero-liquid-discharge applications Review project requirements following award and confirm scope, work procedures, schedule, budget, staffing, quality-management requirements, vendor needs, and project risks. Prepare or oversee project work plans, project initiation documents, schedules, budgets, staffing plans, and project closeout activities. Lead preparation and review of calculations, technical reports, plans, specifications, cost estimates, permit applications, and construction documents. Coordinate technical work across civil, mechanical, electrical, instrumentation and controls, structural, architectural, environmental, and CADD disciplines. Provide technical oversight during construction, including submittal and shop-drawing reviews, requests for information, change evaluations, progress meetings, site observations, startup, commissioning, and project closeout. Apply Stanley Consultants’ quality-management procedures and applicable standards, including AWWA, WEF, Ten States Standards, state regulatory requirements, and client-specific design criteria. Project Management Manage project scope, schedule, budget, quality, communications, resources, procurement, and risk. Establish clear assignments, deliverable dates, review responsibilities, and communication protocols for geographically distributed project teams. Monitor project performance and take timely corrective action when scope, schedule, budget, staffing, or quality concerns arise. Maintain consistent communication with clients, project teams, subcontractors, and Stanley Consultants leadership. Support contract negotiations, amendments, scope development, fee preparation, and project financial management. Deliver projects in accordance with client expectations and Stanley Consultants’ project-management and quality requirements.

Qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s degree in Civil, Environmental, Mechanical, or Chemical Engineering from an accredited institution.
  • At least 20 years of progressive experience in water, wastewater, environmental, industrial, or public infrastructure.
  • Professional Engineer license in a U.S. jurisdiction, or ability to obtain one within six months; ability to obtain additional registrations as needed.
  • Experience delivering municipal and industrial water and wastewater projects through planning, design, construction, startup, operations, and rehabilitation.
  • Experience evaluating industrial wastewater characteristics, treatment, discharge, permitting, and water-reuse requirements.
  • Knowledge of industrial treatment technologies, including clarification, filtration, membranes, biological treatment, ion exchange, reverse osmosis, demineralization, and advanced reuse.
  • Ability to integrate water and wastewater systems with industrial processes, utilities, equipment, and site infrastructure.
  • Experience with alternative delivery methods such as design-build, progressive design-build, construction manager at risk, or engineer-procure-construct.
  • Experience collaborating with owners, contractors, vendors, and multidisciplinary teams.
  • Project-management experience overseeing scope, schedule, budget, quality, staffing, communications, and risk.
  • Strong communication and technical-writing skills, with proficiency in Microsoft 365.
  • Ability to work effectively and remotely and travel as needed, including overnight.
  • Participation in AWWA, WEF, or related state and regional organizations is desirable.

Remote-Work Expectations

The position is remote, but success will require active participation with clients and Stanley Consultants teams. The selected candidate will be expected to:

  • Maintain a professional and reliable home-office environment.
  • Be available for client and team meetings during established core working hours.
  • Use Microsoft Teams and other approved collaboration platforms for regular communication.
  • Travel to Stanley Consultants offices when needed for project workshops, training, interviews, and team-development activities.
  • Travel to client facilities and project sites to maintain relationships and support project delivery.
  • Coordinate work across time zones and communicate availability, deadlines, and project risks proactively.
  • Comply with Stanley Consultants’ information-security, records-management, quality-management, and remote-work requirements.

Work-Life Balance We realize there’s more to life than just work. We help you meet the demands of work, family and personal life through several flexible options.

What we offer:

Member-Owned. Member-ownership is at the heart of our culture, aligning client satisfaction, company performance, and personal reward.

Paid Time Away. Stanley Consultants offers numerous paid holidays, generous paid time off (PTO), parental leave, and professional development leave.

Health Insurance. We provide a comprehensive insurance package including medical, dental, vision, FSA, HSA, Doctor On Demand, wellness reimbursement, and mental health resources.

Financial Health. We offer life insurance, short- and long-term disability insurance, identity theft protection, and many other benefits.

Professional Growth. When your skills grow, so do we, which is why we offer tuition assistance, professional society membership, and more.

Financial Rewards. We share our prosperity with members through company stock ownership, a generous 401K match, incentive compensation, and profit-sharing contributions to retirement 401K plans.

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The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)

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