Senior Process Engineer, Water

Communities everywhere share the need for clean water. And as they work to meet that need, they’re facing new, more complex challenges every day. Our water professionals collaborate to contribute innovative ideas, guided by scientific rigor and a vision for sustainable growth. Every day, we’re helping communities improve, reuse, and protect our world’s most precious resource.

Join our team to deliver transformational projects that will benefit future generations. Grow with us, H2O+U.

Your Opportunity

As a Senior Process Engineer, Water you will serve as a senior technical lead on projects with our Water and Wastewater Technology Practice. You will partner with business development personnel to position and shape projects as well as develop technical approaches for proposals and present technical information to clients in interviews. This role will be focused on winning and delivering work in the North Central Region with an Ohio focus. The Senior Process Engineer will provide technical support to Regional Delivery Leaders and engage as needed in executing and delivering projects within the region. The scope of this execution work will vary by project, but the focus will be on water and wastewater treatment including pilot studies, odor control, PFAS, biosolids, conventional activated sludge process, and promotion of best practices and standards for process design and major process mechanical systems, and QA / QC for design criteria.

Your Key Responsibilities

As a process expert, you provide t echnical leadership on water and wastewater projects, wastewater treatment; primary, secondary, tertiary and biosolids processes, water treatment, advanced wastewater treatment processes including membrane filtration and membrane bioreactors, side stream nutrient removal, and emerging technologies as applicable odor control and residuals handling processes, and industrial wastewater treatment.

You provide technical support to client account managers and Regional Leaders in the identification, positioning and pursuit of strategic clients promoting strategic project opportunities.

You have strong technical skills, project delivery, and leadership experience to a complex array of multi-disciplinary planning, design and construction projects for municipal water and wastewater systems including process engineering, treatment facilities planning and design, and related infrastructure.

You perform engineering analyses, modeling, and calculations and prepare detailed design drawings and specifications.

You’ll interact with clients, Stantec staff, permitting agencies and other consulting firms in the execution of engineering projects.

You engage in active mentorship of peers and young professionals who desire guidance on career development objectives.

The Senior Process Engineer will engage in active membership in state, regional and national professional associations including, Water Environment Federation, International Water Association, Water Reuse Association, and others as appropriate. This engagement entails the delivery of papers, presentations, workshops and webinars at conferences and symposia, participation in technical training workshops and seminars, and involvement in committee leadership as appropriate.

Perform other duties as assigned.

Education and Experience

Bachelor's degree in Civil, Environmental, or Mechanical engineering.

Minimum of 10 years of experience.

Licensed Professional Engineer in Ohio (Civil, Environmental, Mechanical, or other relevant discipline).

Strong technical and engineering skills.

Geographically based in US North Central, or willingness to relocate.

This description is not a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that may be required of the employee and other duties, responsibilities and activities may be assigned or may be changed at any time with or without notice.

Pay Transparency : In compliance with pay transparency laws, pay ranges are provided for positions in locations where required. Please note, the final agreed upon compensation is based on individual education, qualifications, experience, and work location. At Stantec certain roles are bonus eligible. Actual compensation for part-time roles will be pro-rated based on the agreed number of working hours per week.

Benefits Summary : Regular full-time and part-time employees (working at least 20 hours per week) have access to medical, dental, and vision plans, a wellness program, health saving accounts, flexible spending accounts, 401(k) plan, employee stock purchase program, life and accidental death & dismemberment (AD&D) insurance, short-term / long-term disability plans, emergency travel benefits, tuition reimbursement, professional membership fee coverage and paid family leave. Regular full-time and part-time employees will receive ten paid holidays in each calendar year. In addition, employees will be eligible to accrue vacation between 10 and 20 days per year and eligible for paid sick leave (and if more generous, in accordance with state and local law).

Temporary / casual employees have access to 401(k) plans, employee stock purchase program, and paid leave, in accordance with state and local law.

The benefits information listed above may not apply to union positions because benefits for such positions are governed by applicable collective bargaining agreements

Primary Location : United States | OH | Columbus

Organization : BC-1734 Water-US North Central

Employee Status : Regular

Business Justification : Replacement

Travel : Yes

Schedule : Full time

Job Posting : 16 / 06 / 2025 02 : 06 : 51

Req ID : REQ2500027Z

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