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Brown And Caldwell

Process Mechanical Engineer

Brown And Caldwell, Seattle, WA


Brown and Caldwell is currently seeking a self-motivated water and wastewater treatment engineer specializing in process mechanical design to join our Washington, Oregon, Hawaii, or Vancouver (BC) office. Remote work allowed.

This is a great opportunity to work for an environmentally focused engineering consulting firm. The successful candidate will work on various water/wastewater projects for municipal, industrial, and federal clients. We offer a collaborative, multi-discipline environment to develop innovative, cost-effective designs for new facilities, expansions, upgrades and retrofits.

When you join Brown and Caldwell you will enjoy a unique and welcoming culture centered on balance and belonging and supported by an entirely employee-owned firm. You will find that we offer a non-hierarchical, collaborative, and supportive environment, allowing you to learn, grow your career, choose your path, and have fun while doing your best work. You will be trusted to do the right thing by our leaders and clients and given the flexibility to manage your own schedule to achieve this. The work we do is interesting, challenging, and wide-ranging in nature, and so is our client base.

Responsibilities:

  • Support projects local to your office, with possibility of expanding onto Brown and Caldwell's western business region.

  • Execute engineering work on water and environmental projects including wastewater treatment, water treatment, advanced treatment, and pumping and conveyance
  • Work on engineering designs preparing drawings, specifications, P&IDs, calculations, technical reports, and equipment selection for a variety of water or wastewater projects

  • Lead design tasks as a process mechanical task lead on small to midsize projects with support from Brown and Caldwell's subject matter experts.

  • Work with drafters and designers and coordinate with other disciplines to complete construction documents
  • Assist or lead the preparation and writing of technical memoranda, reports, and electronic deliverables
  • Assist or lead studies or alternatives analyses
  • Perform office services during construction on projects you designed, including submittal reviews, responses to requests for information, and other construction related office engineering work
  • Check performance and/or conformity with design drawings and specifications through field inspection and testing during construction of your projects
  • Duties may also include occasional field activities such as site investigations, data collection, compilation, analysis, and documentation; these activities may require occasional travel to project sites that are not local to your home office
  • Regularly seek out guidance and implement feedback received from senior engineering staff


Minimum Qualifications:

  • B.S. degree in Environmental, Mechanical, Civil, or Chemical Engineering; M.S. degree preferred
  • P.E. certification/registration in Mechanical, Environmental, or Civil in good standing, or ability to obtain in the near future
  • Minimum 5 years of relevant experience required
  • Experience designing water and wastewater projects and preparing construction documents including drawings, P&IDs, specifications, control narratives, technical memoranda, etc.
  • Experience writing and editing equipment and piping specifications
  • Strong aptitude for researching and solving technical problems
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills
  • Demonstrated ability to use standard computer programs such as Microsoft Word, Excel, Access, Outlook, and PowerPoint required.
  • Experience performing engineering calculations using computer software (Excel, Mathcad, etc.)
  • Valid driver's license and good driving record required.


Required Skills and Experience:

  • 6 to 10 years of increasing responsibility in related experience preferred.
  • Experience with AFT Arrow and AFT Fathom is preferred.
  • Experience with ProjectWise Explorer, BIM 360 and Bluebeam is desired.
  • Experience with Autodesk Construction Cloud is a plus.
  • Field/construction experience a plus.
  • GIS experience a plus


Salary Range:

Location A: $70,000 - $95,000

Location B: $77,000 - $105,000

You can view which BC location applies to you here. If you have any questions, please speak with your Recruiter.

Benefits and Other Compensation: We provide a comprehensive benefits package that promotes employee health, performance, and success which includes medical, dental, vision, short and long-term disability, life insurance, an employee assistance program, paid time off and parental leave, paid holidays, 401(k) retirement savings plan with employer match, performance-based bonus eligibility, employee referral bonuses, tuition reimbursement, pet insurance and long-term care insurance. Click here to see our full list of benefits.

About Brown and Caldwell

Headquartered in Walnut Creek, California, Brown and Caldwell is a full-service environmental engineering and construction services firm with 50 offices and over 2,100 professionals across North America and the Pacific. For more than 75 years, we have created leading-edge environmental solutions for municipalities, private industry, and government agencies. We strive to be the company of choice-to our clients, who benefit from our passion for delivering exceptional quality, and to our employees, present and future, who share our commitment to client service, collaboration, and innovation. Join us, and you will find a home where you can do your best work, reach new levels of expertise, and enjoy exceptional development opportunities. For more information, visit www.brownandcaldwell.com.

This position is subject to a pre-employment background check and a pre-employment drug test.

Notice to Third Party Agencies: Brown and Caldwell does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruiters or employment agencies. In the event a recruiter or agency submits a resume or candidate without a previously signed agreement and approved engagement request with Brown and Caldwell, Brown and Caldwell reserves the right to pursue and hire those candidate(s) without any financial obligation to the recruiter or agency.

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The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor's legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)