Project Engineer

Aqua, an Essential Utilities company, employs people in a variety of roles within our eight-state footprint, ranging from field workers and customer service representatives who are on the front lines working with customers, to scientists and engineers who help ensure we’re delivering reliable water and wastewater services to our communities.  If you’re looking for a rewarding career helping improve our environment and protect our natural resources, we encourage you to join our team!

About Essential Utilities

Essential Utilities, Inc. delivers safe, clean, reliable services that improve quality of life for individuals, families, and entire communities.

Operating as the Aqua (water and wastewater services) and the Peoples and Delta (natural gas) brands, Essential serves approximately 5.5 million people across 10 states. We are committed to sustainable growth, operational excellence, a superior customer experience, and premier employer status - including a competitive and comprehensive benefits package as well as a commitment to career growth opportunities.

We are advocates for the communities we serve and are dedicated stewards of natural lands, protecting more than 7,600 acres of forests and other habitats throughout our footprint.

Our company is one of the most significant publicly traded water, wastewater service and natural gas providers in the U.S. 

• Prepares and/or assists in the preparation of studies and reports to guide company management in planning for future systems needs and improvements.  Activities include developing cost estimates for capital budget planning and projects including modeling alternative evaluations, e.g. estimates costs, schedules, community impact and risks across projects in various municipalities throughout the service area.
• Drives and coordinates the long-term capital plan for the assigned division/system. Coordinates monthly capital meetings with operational personnel, tracking capital and reporting to senior management on capital.
• Coordinates and manages consultant engineers to ensure project objectives, goals, and deadlines are achieved.
• Models and reviews all waterline and sewer projects.  Designs assigned aspects of projects i.e. tanks, boosters, lift stations, WTP projects, WWTP projects, regulating vaults, etc.) as needed.
• Uses the company applications such as Powerplant and SAP to create and manage capital projects.  Updates, maintains, and researches information in a variety of company databases including the financial information system and capital budget system for project authorization and tracking.  Ensures new equipment is logged into the appropriate maintenance system.
• Prepares and/or supervises the permit applications for selected projects and ensure all required permits are obtained with necessary approvals.
• Prepares contract bid documents, plans and technical specifications for capital projects and conducts the bid process.  Negotiates and prepares property easements and oversees the preparation of property descriptions, survey and legal recording as required.
• Coordinates and manages approved construction projects including high level design, schedule and budget.  Enforces contract requirements and performs construction administration on assigned projects.
• Assists in the preparation of year-end and ongoing financial accounting and record preparations including the processing of invoices. Completes all necessary paperwork needed for accounting to close the project.
• Conducts field investigations to gather information for project design.  Participates in due diligence visits of potential acquisitions to develop capital investment plans.
• Assists with other tasks or projects as assigned.

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential function(s).

QUALIFICATIONS (Required Experience, Education, Licenses, and Certifications)

• Bachelor’s degree in Civil/Environmental Engineering or related engineering field required; Master’s degree preferred.
• Engineer in Training (E.I.T.) or ability to achieve within 12 months of hire
• 0 -4 years of professional experience in Water or Wastewater and exposure to annual budgets. GIS interest and experience would be considered a plus.
• Experience conducting field t