Water Wastewater Treatment Engineer

Duration: Initially 1-year
Location: Spring, TX
Schedule: 5/40

About the role

This opportunity is suited to a senior technical specialist with deep expertise in industrial water treatment, wastewater treatment, and produced water systems. The role offers broad technical scope across operating facilities, capital projects, research, technology development initiatives, and sustainability programs, with a strong focus on operational excellence, treatment strategy, and water reuse. This position will support complex engineering decisions, performance improvement, and sustainable water management across industrial environments.

Responsibilities

• Develop and implement water management solutions for industrial water, wastewater, and produced water treatment.
• Support both operating facilities and capital project execution.
• Lead technical investigations, root cause analysis, treatment chemistry evaluation, and corrective action planning.
• Provide technical oversight across project basis development, system design, startup support, and performance optimization for existing and greenfield facilities.
• Lead multidisciplinary teams and influence technical decisions across organizations.
• Evaluate, develop, and deploy established, emerging, and proprietary water treatment technologies.
• Collaborate with operations, engineering, research, technology, and business teams to achieve economic, sustainability, reliability, and operational objectives.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering, Environmental Engineering, Civil Engineering, or a related engineering discipline.
• Minimum 10 years of experience in industrial water, wastewater, and produced water treatment, water reuse, process engineering, or related fields.
• Demonstrated expertise in developing and implementing water management solutions.
• Experience supporting both operating facilities and capital project execution.
• Experience leading technical investigations, root cause analysis, treatment chemistry evaluation, and corrective action planning.
• Proven ability to lead multidisciplinary teams and influence technical decisions across organizations.

Skills

• Technical leadership in water, wastewater, and produced water treatment strategy development, selection, and implementation.
• Strong knowledge of water sourcing, minimization, reuse, and treatment approaches aligned with economic, sustainability, reliability, and operational objectives.
• Ability to evaluate, develop, and deploy water treatment technologies.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills.
• Ability to collaborate effectively with operations, engineering, research, technology, and business teams.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a collaborative team.
• Ability to maintain a flexible work schedule to support global teams.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in industrial sectors such as energy, chemicals, refining, petrochemicals, mining, manufacturing, or water utilities.