Florida Water Treatment Leader

About the role

The Water Treatment Leader role leads complex environmental engineering work involving the planning, analysis, and design of solutions that support environmental protection, water sustainability, and public health outcomes. Operating with minimal supervision, this role applies advanced technical expertise to solve complex problems without clearly defined solutions across natural and engineered systems. This position addresses environmental and public health protection, mitigation, and prevention of degradation of water, soils, air quality, and habitats. This role may lead technical efforts across water and wastewater treatment and conveyance, stormwater management, solid and hazardous waste management, and related practice areas. This role is responsible for delivering high-quality engineering analyses, designs, and recommendations with significant project impact. This candidate will help lead strategic drinking water projects to support respective teams in pursuits, execution, design and construction. This individual will also support the growth of the Drinking Water Practice at Brown and Caldwell by serving in capacities such as Client Service Manager for key clients.

Responsibilities

• Lead and execute complex technical analyses and engineering design efforts.
• Prepare, review, and approve advanced technical reports and engineering deliverables.
• Develop and design environmental protection systems and infrastructure for complex projects.
• Lead development of facility, watershed, or strategic resource management plans.
• Ensure technical quality, regulatory compliance, and integration of multidisciplinary inputs.
• Provide technical leadership during permitting, regulatory coordination, and vendor engagement.
• Flexibility to adapt and execute various additional assignments based on evolving needs.
• Mentorship: Provide mentorship, guidance, support, and knowledge-sharing to help less experienced team members develop their skills and grow within their roles.

Requirements

• Typically, a minimum of 10 years of related work experience in Environmental Engineering or related field.
• PE license required and ability to acquire licensure in multiple states is required.

Skills And Competencies

• Advanced expertise in environmental engineering principles, practices, and regulations.
• Strong judgment in applying engineering standards and best practices.
• Effective leadership and communication skills within technical teams.

Education

• A bachelor’s degree in environmental engineering or related field is required.
• PE license required and ability to acquire licensure in multiple states is required.

Preferred Experience

• Master’s degree in Engineering (Civil, Mechanical, Chemical, Biological, or Environmental).
• Minimum of 10 years of related professional experience as a water treatment design Engineer.
• Minimum of 5 years’ experience in project management and client service management.
• Experience in project and sub-consultant management.
• Strong leadership skills and high emotional intelligence.
• Strong verbal/written communication skills and ability to work well independently, and in both in-person and remote team environments.
• Experience in Design-Build project delivery.
• Be willing and able to travel, up to 30% of the time.

Pay

The anticipated starting pay range for this position is based on the employee’s primary work location and may be more or less depending upon skills, experience, and education. These ranges may be modified in the future.

Benefits

We provide a comprehensive benefits package that promotes employee health, performance, and success which includes medical, dental, vision, short and long-term disability, life insurance, an employee assistance program, paid time off and parental leave, paid holidays, 401(k) retirement savings plan with employer match, performance-based bonus eligibility, employee referral bonuses, tuition reimbursement, pet insurance and long-term care insurance. Click here to see our full list of benefits.

About Brown And Caldwell

Headquartered in Walnut Creek, California, Brown and Caldwell is a full-service environmental engineering and construction firm with 50 offices and 2,100 professionals across North America and the Pacific. For more than 75 years, we have created leading-edge environmental solutions for municipalities, private industry, and government agencies. We strive to be the company of choice—to our clients, who benefit from our passion for delivering exceptional quality, and to our employees, present and future, who share our commitment to client service, collaboration, and innovation. Join us, and you will find a home where you can do your best work, reach new levels of expertise, and enjoy exceptional development opportunities.