Brown and Caldwell has an exciting opportunity for an experienced Sr. Operations and Engineering Consultant to join our growing SoCal consulting team. The right person for this position will leverage their hands-on experience operating a water or wastewater plant, performing start-up and commissioning activities, writing O&M documents, use of online systems, and developing, implementing, or enhancing maintenance programs. This role will also support our local water and wastewater planning and design teams to develop solutions to meet our client's challenging needs. This is an opportunity to work in a collaborative team environment where personal contributions and teamwork are valued.

Detailed Description:

The ideal candidate for this position will have worked in a dual consulting role to support our SoCal O&M consulting and water/wastewater consulting teams.

As part of the O&M consulting team, the candidate will serve as a certified treatment operator performing day-to-day operations and maintenance activities or an equivalent process engineering role. Experience in developing, implementing, and enhancing a maintenance program is core to success in this position. Although this position is primarily technical in nature, the candidate must also possess appropriate communication skills to facilitate client workshops, mediate differences of opinion, and participate effectively in business development meetings. The ability to provide start-up and commissioning guidance to clients and BC team members are also desired as this is critical to the successful completion of our projects.

The Sr. Operations Consultant is focused on startup, commissioning, and post-commissioning services that we provide and includes, field testing observation and documentation, providing on-station operations assistance to plant operators, preparing and assisting with the training of operators, writing standard operating procedures, writing operations and maintenance manuals, evaluating data, and assisting with process and testing troubleshooting. Attendance at recurring meetings is required, as assigned, to support extended commissioning projects. The role may also assist with operations optimization work, as assigned to develop online tools.

This position requires the candidate to travel locally within SoCal. It also requires the candidate to have the physical ability to access water and wastewater plants, collection systems, pump stations, and on rare occasions confined space locations. Although you will be part of a team, the candidate will work on most projects with no other consulting O&M staff present and therefore requires the candidate to have a lot of self-confidence, work independently, and be comfortable using the technology required to work remotely.

As part of the water/wastewater consulting team, the candidate will lead tasks and direct groups of process mechanical designers. Our ideal candidate will have some experience in design coordination of multidiscipline models and be excited about the prospect of learning to develop plans and sections to communicate engineering design. Project work includes the development of P&IDs, equipment layout, design of process piping and utility systems, development of contract drawings, field investigations, and support during construction.

Desired Skills and Experience:

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering or Science required; Master's preferred
• Minimum of 6 to 8 years of operations and maintenance experience and/or equivalent treatment process experience that includes developing O&M, SOP, and other such writing experience
• Current Wastewater or Water Treatment Operator License a plus
• Experience working in a multi-discipline team environment
• A confident technical writer and demonstrated experience such as O&M manuals, SOPs, etc.
• Confident use of Word, and Excel in day-to-day work, with SharePoint experience a plus.
• Public speaking and training experience, work, conference, or another format.
• Experience in planning and scheduling and knowledge of scheduling software
• Wide breadth of liquid and solids treatment process experience
• Proven ability to develop and facilitate workshops focused on improving maintenance management
• Ability to travel up to 25% in Southern California
• Participation in Project assignments may be subject to a more advanced background security clearance.

Salary Range: The anticipated starting pay range for this position is based on the employee's primary work location and may be more or less depending on skills, experience, and education. These ranges may be modified in the future.

Location B:

Salary $126,000.00 - $172,000.00

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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 to see our full list of benefits.

About Brown and Caldwell

Headquartered in Walnut Creek, CA, Brown and Caldwell is a full-service environmental engineering and construction firm with 52 offices and 1,900 professionals across North America and the Pacific. For more than 70 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

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