Senior Project Engineer (Water/Wastewater)

About the role

This isn’t just a job, it's a chance to lead change, drive progress, and leave a lasting legacy. In the role of Senior Project Engineer (Water/Wastewater), we'll count on you to:

Responsibilities

• Independently create detailed designs, plans, specifications for water facilities and infrastructure projects
• Manage and coordinate multi-discipline teams from separate locations to produce high level, high quality deliverables
• Guide the planning and execution of complex and multi-disciplinary studies, simulations, and plans for water infrastructure projects
• Take responsibility for engineering/process design, project coordination, determining and writing engineering specifications, planning work, establishing appropriate design methods, report preparation and coordination, equipment sizing and selection, and working directly with our Clients to provide an outstanding delivery experience
• Establish new quality standards and value engineering solutions
• Conduct quality control reviews of deliverables
• Serve as a technical expert with recognized authority in area of one water systems and water infrastructure
• Serve as a project manager on water projects as needed
• Perform other duties as needed

Requirements

• Preference is given to candidates local to the New England area
• Bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering or equivalent field
• A minimum of 10 years experience with water infrastructure and water related facilities or systems
• Requires professional engineering license recognized by the licensing board for the location of the position offered.
• Example: Professional Engineer (PE or P.Eng) license
• Ability to make independent decisions and be accountable for the results
• Strong technical background and experience in guiding and formulating one water solutions and managing multi-disciplinary, geographically diverse teams
• Microsoft Office, digital delivery and design platforms, numerical modeling and simulation platforms, workflow augmentation and quality facilitation platforms
• Project Engineering and Project Management experience is necessary
• An attitude and commitment to being an active participant of our employee-owned culture is a must

Qualifications

• Preferred Qualifications: Preference is given to candidates local to the New England area
• Required Qualifications: Bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering or equivalent field
• A minimum of 10 years experience with water infrastructure and water related facilities or systems
• Requires professional engineering license recognized by the licensing board for the location of the position offered.
• Example: Professional Engineer (PE or P.Eng) license
• Ability to make independent decisions and be accountable for the results
• Strong technical background and experience in guiding and formulating one water solutions and managing multi-disciplinary, geographically diverse teams
• Microsoft Office, digital delivery and design platforms, numerical modeling and simulation platforms, workflow augmentation and quality facilitation platforms
• Project Engineering and Project Management experience is necessary
• An attitude and commitment to being an active participant of our employee-owned culture is a must

Benefits

• We provide a comprehensive benefits package that promotes employee ownership, employee health, performance, and success, which includes medical, dental, vision, short and long-term disability, life insurance, an employee assistance program, paid time away, parental leave, paid holidays, a retirement savings plan with employer match, employee referral bonus and tuition reimbursement.

Pay

• The expected compensation range for this position depends upon skills, experience, education and geographical location.

Schedule

• Full-time

Employee Status

• Regular

Business Class

• Water Treatment

Primary Location

• United States-Massachusetts-Boston

Other Locations

• United States-New Hampshire-Bedford
• United States-Maine-Portland
• United States-Connecticut-Rocky Hill
• United States-Rhode Island-Providence

Job Posting

• Jul 7, 2026

Company Information

• We are an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer (https://www.hdrinc.com/equal-employment-opportunity-employer).
• We consider all qualified applicants, regardless of criminal histories, arrest and conviction records.