Senior Operations Specialist (Water)
About the role
HDR is seeking an energetic, hardworking problem solver to become a full-time Senior Operations Specialist to work on both municipal and industrial water treatment facilities. This position offers the opportunity to work on a variety of new and innovative projects, providing a career path with more growth than typical utility organizations.
Responsibilities
- Support HDR project leaders on water treatment projects requiring input from Operations Specialists.
- Review drawings for operability review and HazOps analysis with an eye for successful operation of various treatment processes.
- Manage operations and maintenance projects with both municipal and industrial clients, including client interfacing, regulatory reporting, and personnel, subcontractor, and maintenance management.
- Develop startup and commissioning plans and host workshops to ensure these plans work for each specific plant.
- Perform startup and commissioning of new water treatment facilities, working alongside contractors and engineers to ensure the new equipment functions correctly before handing it over to the operations and maintenance staff.
- Provide formal and informal training to help clients’ treatment plants operate as well as they can.
- Test facilities to ensure they are ready for startup and after startup, meet the capacity requirements of the design.
- Perform condition assessment and asset management tasks on water and wastewater facilities, using state-of-the-art evaluation tools.
- Conduct operational or maintenance troubleshooting and evaluations on municipal and industrial water facilities.
- Work on a variety of projects in the southern portion of the central United States, with the potential to work across several sites nationwide.
Qualifications
- Minimum 10 years field experience in troubleshooting mechanical, electrical, and instrumentation equipment at water treatment facilities and/or resolving water treatment process problems.
- Additional construction experience is a plus.
- A high-level water treatment operator license or professional engineering license.
- Experience interpreting engineering plans and specifications.
- Knowledge of Microsoft Office products and computerized maintenance and management systems.
- A strong attitude and commitment to being an active participant in our employee-owned culture.
Benefits
At HDR, we offer a comprehensive benefits package that promotes employee ownership, health, performance, and success, including medical, dental, vision, short and long-term disability, life insurance, an employee assistance program, paid time off, parental leave, paid holidays, a retirement savings plan with employer match, employee referral bonuses, and tuition reimbursement.
Pay
The expected compensation range for this position is $71,960 - 128,500 depending upon skills, experience, education, and geographical location.
Schedule
This position is full-time.
Employee Status
This position is regular.
Business Class
The business class for this position is WW Treatment and Effluent Mgmt.
Job Posting
The job posting ends on December 31, 2025.
Company Information
HDR is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer. We consider all qualified applicants, regardless of criminal histories, arrest and conviction records.