Entry Level Water Engineer
Arcadis
About the Role
Arcadis is seeking an Entry-Level Water Engineer to join their team in Plantation, FL. This role offers valuable hands-on experience in water engineering, allowing for skill development and contribution to meaningful projects focused on protecting natural environments and water resources.
Key Responsibilities
- Evaluate, plan, design, and support the management of projects related to water/wastewater/stormwater treatment and conveyance, including pipelines and pumping facilities.
- Identify and advance green infrastructure and other nature-based solutions for stormwater quality and quantity.
- Assess, develop, and support the management of sustainability and resilience projects.
- Exercise judgment on work details and make preliminary selections and adaptations of engineering alternatives.
- Perform fieldwork activities: site visits, construction inspection, sampling, water quality analyses, asset inventory, flow monitoring set-up and monitoring, and technology evaluations.
- Support Asset Management projects: perform data analytics, operational and organizational assessments, condition assessments, and overall performance evaluations of water/wastewater/stormwater facilities.
- Prepare reports, presentations, and other audio-visual materials.
- Participate in client meetings.
- Use digital tools for customer experience, team and client collaboration, and project delivery, including configuration and deployment of SharePoint, GIS, BIM, Power BI, and Augmented Reality.
- Design and manage databases and cloud-based computing services.
Requirements & Tech Stack
- Ability to exercise judgment on work details and make preliminary selections and adaptations of engineering alternatives.
- Perform fieldwork activities.
- Support Asset Management projects.
- Prepare reports, presentations, and other audio-visual materials.
- Participate in client meetings.
- Utilize digital tools for customer experience, collaboration, and project delivery.
- SharePoint, GIS, BIM, Power BI, Augmented Reality.
- Database and cloud-based computing services.
- Potential for local and regional travel.
- Unrestricted availability to travel as needed.
- Enthusiasm for on-site field work at construction sites.
- Expected ratio: 75% office, 25% field.
Qualifications
- BS in Civil or Environmental Engineering or a closely related field of study.
- Strong attention to detail, organization skills, and work ethic.
- Exceptional analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Self-motivated and team-oriented, with the ability to work successfully both independently and within a team.
- Strong technical writing ability and educational background.
- Ability to balance and address new challenges as they arise.
- Knowledge of engineering concepts, theories, and practices related to water/wastewater/stormwater.
- Excellent technical aptitude with a familiarity/experience with CAD, AutoCAD, Revit, Bluebeam.
- Must have a driver's license and ability to get to remote job sites for work.
Preferred Qualifications
- EIT or ability to obtain EIT shortly after starting at Arcadis.
- Prior work/internship experience at a design or consulting engineering firm or municipal work environment.
- Experience using AutoCAD and Revit, ArcGIS.