Engineer Senior

Date Opened: Wednesday, December 18, 2024 12:00 AM

Close Date: Monday, January 13, 2025 12:00 AM

Department: Charlotte Water Department

Salary: $85,237.21 - $106,546.52 Commensurate with Experience

SUMMARY

Charlotte’s local government, with more than 7,000 employees and a $2.39 billion budget, works hard to ensure that the community will be a winning city for everyone – a truly remarkable place to live, work, learn and play.

Charlotte Water is an enterprise department of the City of Charlotte and one of the largest public water and sewer service providers in the southeast with 300,000 customer accounts and over 1000 employees. Our service area includes the City of Charlotte, Mecklenburg County and the towns of Huntersville, Cornelius, Davidson, Mint Hill, Matthews and Pineville. Charlotte Water’s FY 23 budget is $535M and a five-year capital program of $2.5 billion. We enjoy the highest credit ratings from all three major credit rating agencies as a result of sound financial planning and management and strong support from our City Council. We value competent, skilled candidates with a customer service focus to work in a team environment.

SALARY: $95,892.00 - $106,546.00 Commensurate with Experience

JOB SUMMARY

The Senior Engineer’s work involves infrastructure rehabilitation and upgrade planning, project analysis for improvement in overall efficiency of treatment plant operations and supporting the Division’s efforts to meet compliance obligations. This position provides a high degree of internal/external consulting for City projects and operations as a subject-matter expert in a specialized field.  Work involves some project management functions with emphasis on providing guidance and support to projects in planning, design, and regulatory oversight.  This position provides technical assistance and serves as a lead or supervisor over technical staff.

ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS:        

• Contributes to the development and implementation of MOPO plans for construction and rehabilitation projects in order to protect the operational reliability of the treatment plants.
• Helps develop and maintain the list of needed or potential infrastructure projects for the division by identifying rehab project resources and estimated project costs.
• Participates on project teams by reviewing preliminary plans and designs and providing technical and professional assistance. 
• Reviews work of architects, engineers, and other project service providers to ensure regulatory compliance, future access for rehabilitation and repair projects is maintained, and division standards are incorporated.
• Conducts or supervises engineering studies to support division planning and to improve overall efficiency in treatment plant operation.
• Leads and mentors engineering and technical staff; may supervise the work of professional, technical, and administrative staff.
• Communicates with engineering project managers, consultants, vendors, contractors, and other interested parties in order to obtain input, provide feedback, exchange information, and report project status.
• Performs administrative tasks, such as developing scopes of work for service providers and consultants and processing invoices.
• Assists with or coordinates emergency response measures related to overflows, spills, or equipment failure.
• Participates in special projects including wastewater equipment/chemical/process pilots.

• Supports the division’s environmental management program by performing work with a focus on environmental protection, customer service, and continual improvement, and leading corrective action investigations, efforts to meet division objectives, and continuous improvement projects.

• Coordinates closely with internal team members including engineering staff, treatment plant operations and maintenance professionals, biosolids program team members, water quality scientists, continuous improvement professionals, and administrative staff.
• Travel to and perform duties as necessary at wastewater treatment plants and other City facilities throughout Mecklenburg County.
• Provides professional and technical instruction, guidance, and information to consultants, contractors, engineers, City officials, and the public regarding planning, design, regulatory issues, engineering principles, and standard practices; serves as subject matter expert.
• Leads and mentors engineering and technical staff; may supervise the work of professional, technical, and administrative staff.
• Provides technical expertise in the development and implementation of policy and standards regarding engineering principles and practices for public and private development within the City.
• Identifies project