Senior Water/Wastewater Engineer - Stanley Consultants

Job Title - Senior Water/Wastewater Engineer

Location - Chicago, Illinois

Job Type – Hybrid, Onsite

About Stanley Consultants

Improving Lives Since 1913. Stanley Consultants has been helping clients solve essential and complex energy and infrastructure challenges for over 110 years, successfully completing more than 50,000 engagements in 120 countries and all 50 states and U.S. territories. Values-based and purpose-driven, Stanley is an employee-owned company of engineers, scientists, technologists, innovators and client-service experts who are recognized for their commitment and passion to make a difference. The company garnered a recent Top Workplaces USA Today ranking and followed it with recognitions for outstanding compensation and benefits and work-life flexibility. For more information on Stanley Consultants, please visit https://www.stanleyconsultants.com

Stanley Consultants is seeking a Senior Water Engineer / Project Manager for our Chicago, IL office to lead and deliver water projects in Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, and Wisconsin. This position is responsible for technical planning, design, construction, and project management of drinking water source, distribution, storage, and water treatment projects.

The Senior Water Engineer / Project Manager will have a Midwestern US network of drinking water connections and regional expertise in one or more of the following:

• Water distribution, transmission, and storage
• Water/Wastewater treatment
• Wastewater conveyance and peak weather flow infrastructure
• Water Reuse
• Pump Stations
• Hydraulic modeling
• Asset management
• Risk and resiliency consulting and design
• Smart water system planning, design, and implementation
  
  

What You Will Be Doing:

• Leading team delivery of drinking water projects including evaluation and detailed design of intake structures, surface and ground water treatment plants, water reuse systems, storage, pumping, and transmission and distribution projects
• Preparing master planning reports and documentation required for grants and loans
• Self-motivated subject matter expert; demonstrated through participating in local professional organizations, preparing, and presenting market specific papers and presentations
• Ability to articulate and operate within the One Water paradigm
• Integration of smart water systems, process automation, and machine learning into overall water production and distribution design
• Use AutoCAD, Civil 3D, MicroStation and other applicable engineering design tools
• Work in collaboration with other disciplines (civil, mechanical, electrical, I&C, structural, and CAD) in producing plans and specifications
• Assisting in marketing business opportunities with key clients and development of responses to RFP/RFQs
• Providing marketing, technical leadership, and support during the procurement and execution of projects
• Developing and maintaining long-term relationships with clients
• Assisting clients with permitting, property acquisition, and stakeholder involvement
• Successfully collaborate with multi-disciplinary design teams
• Consistently managing and delivering projects on time and within budget
• Desire and ability to manage and mentor staff
  
  

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor of Science (BS) degree in either Civil Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, or Environmental Engineering
• At least 10 years of relevant experience
• Professional Engineer (PE) license; Illinois PE preferred or must be able to obtain within 6 months of hire date
• Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, and/or Wisconsin network of water/wastewater connections
• Regional expertise in one or more areas of water supply, treatment, storage, and/or distribution technical expertise
• Active participation in professional organizations
• Strong verbal, computer, and organizational skills
• Excellent technical writing skills
• Strong client relationship skills
• Excellent design team leadership skills
  
  

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master of Science (MS0 or PhD degree in either Civil Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, or Environmental Engineering.
  
  

Stanley Consultants is an engineering consulting firm with over a century of success in the Water Market. Our data driven “smart water” future builds on our heritage and the skill and enthusiasm of the next generation of water professionals. Join a team where your ingenuity, creative thinking, and passion for the water industry will be collaboratively paired with seasoned engineers to address increasing client needs as they respond to megatrends like aging infrastructure, funding constraints, and the impacts of an increasingly variable climate.

With Stanley Consultants, you will enjoy a modern workplace culture that includes competitive compensation, flexibility, work-life balance, life-long learning, and inclusivity. Our employee-owned corporate culture emphasizes the well-being of every employee (member) and extensively employs technology to foster continuing education. Our leadership’s commitment is to inspire enthusiastic work, tempered to prevent burn-out, and to provide a corporate culture through which recognition, compensation, and advancement are the natural products of energetic responsiveness, teamwork, and innovation.

Stanley’s Approach to Flexibility

While some members choose to work out of their local office on a full-time basis, we offer a hybrid schedule for eligible positions consisting of two days a week in the office, two days a week remotely, and Friday being a flexible day that can be worked either in the office or at home. Eligible roles can also offer a compressed workweek schedule. Members who participate will be assigned a 9/80 work schedule, meaning every other Friday off!

What we offer:

• Member-Owned. Member-ownership is at the heart of our culture, aligning client satisfaction, company performance, and personal reward
• Work-Life Balance. We realize there’s more to life than just work
• Paid Time Away. Stanley Consultants offers numerous paid holidays, generous paid time off (PTO), parental leave, and professional development leave
• Health Portfolio. We provide a comprehensive portfolio of health services 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
• Click Here: A Great Place To Work

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