Careers

Description:

Duties Include

• Working with water systems to help them achieve and maintain regulatory compliance.
• Applying engineering expertise to review plans, specifications, design reports, project documents, construction documents, individual water system plans, and coordinated water system plans submitted by Professional Engineers. 
• Meeting with water system representatives on site to review their operations and inspect key facilities.  
• Helping water systems prepare for and respond to drinking water emergencies.
• Helping the water system identify existing and potential sources of contamination and opportunities for improvement.  
• Working with the water purveyor and other drinking water partners to ensure consumers are notified of health risks and know how to protect themselves.

What we’re looking for  
Our ideal candidate has a driving passion for the work, brings humility to their job and interactions, and understands how their actions affect others. They see the needs and objectives of others and take them into account while achieving their objectives, and they adapt their approach and expectations accordingly. Our ideal candidate demonstrates resilience to model outward behaviors including seeing people like ourselves whose goals, objectives, needs, and challenges matter.  
 
Required Qualifications (Education and Experience) 

• Licensure as a Professional Engineer (PE) in the state of Washington or ability to obtain licensure through comity within six months from date of hire in one of the following engineering fields: sanitary, civil, geotechnical, water resource, environmental, chemical, mechanical, or related field.

AND

• One (1) or more years of experience working in the field of environmental engineering or public health administration with state and federal drinking water regulations as a water utility employee, consultant, or working for a state or county drinking water program.

Desired Qualifications 

• A Bachelor’s degree or above with major study in one of the following engineering fields:  sanitary water resource, civil, geotechnical, environmental, chemical, mechanical, or related field  
• Three (3) or more years of experience working in the field of environmental engineering or public health administration with state and federal drinking water regulations as a water utility employee, consultant, or working for a state or county drinking water program.
• One (1) or more years of experience designing, operating, or working with surface water treatment plants.