Consulting Specialist, Corrosion & Cathodic Protection

Consulting Specialist, Corrosion & Cathodic Protection

Date:

Oct 1, 2026

Location

Tualatin, OR, US

South Jordan, UT, US

Charlotte, NC, US

Atlanta, GA, US

Dallas, TX, US

Greenwood Village, CO, US

Chicago, IL, US

Houston, TX, US

Orlando, FL, US

Ann Arbor, MI, US

San Marcos, CA, US

Burlington, MA, US

Los Angeles, CA, US

Phoenix, AZ, US

Walnut Creek, CA, US

Austin, TX, US

Company:

Black & Veatch Family of Companies

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Company : Black & Veatch Corporation

Req Id : 117430

Opportunity Type : Staff

Relocation eligible : No

Full time/Part time : Full-Time

Project Only Hire : No

Visa Sponsorship Available: No

Why Black & Veatch?

At Black & Veatch, you’ll be part of work that matters—designing, creating, and building the infrastructure communities rely on every day, from concept through execution.

We care about how the work gets done as much as what we build. Safety is built into every decision, and people look out for each other—speaking up, collaborating, and doing the right thing because it affects real lives.

You’ll work alongside teams solving complex challenges and turning ideas into solutions that perform in the real world—gaining hands-on experience across projects, technologies, and disciplines.

Ownership shows up in how we work. We take responsibility for outcomes, follow through on commitments, and take pride in what we deliver. As a 100% employee-owned company, employees share in the long-term success we build together.

With flexible ways of working and meaningful development opportunities, you’ll build a career you can be proud to stand behind.

The Opportunity

Black & Veatch has an exciting opportunity to join our growing national Corrosion and Cathodic Protection practice within the Infrastructure Advisory Technical Delivery team. This role supports a diverse portfolio of projects involving pipelines, tanks, and related infrastructure across water, energy, power generation, and other infrastructure markets.

Within our corrosion practice, we continue to see strong demand for cathodic protection design and corrosion engineering services associated with both new and existing infrastructure.

This position is intended for an experienced cathodic protection professional with a strong background in engineering design. The successful candidate will take a lead role in developing galvanic and impressed current cathodic protection systems, preparing engineering calculations and design documents, evaluating existing systems, and providing technical direction to project teams and junior professionals.

The role also includes field investigations, commissioning, and troubleshooting activities to support design development and verify system performance; however, the primary focus of the position is cathodic protection engineering and design.

This position provides the opportunity to:

• Lead the design of cathodic protection systems for pipelines, tanks, and related metallic infrastructure.
• Develop design criteria, engineering calculations, equipment selections, drawings, specifications, cost estimates, and technical design documentation.
• Evaluate existing cathodic protection systems and develop rehabilitation, replacement, and optimization recommendations.
• Apply field data, soil resistivity information, interference studies, and system performance data to engineering design decisions.
• Lead technical deliverables and communicate design approaches, alternatives, and recommendations directly with clients and multidisciplinary project teams.
• Provide technical review and mentoring to junior engineers and consultants.
• Participate in field investigations, commissioning, and troubleshooting to support design development and verify installed system performance.
• Contribute to project pursuits, scope and fee development, and growth of Black & Veatch’s national corrosion practice.

This is a strong opportunity for an experienced cathodic protection design professional seeking greater technical leadership, project ownership, and involvement in complex infrastructure projects.

The Team

In this role, you will be part of Black & Veatch’s national Corrosion and Cathodic Protection practice within the Infrastructure Advisory Technical Delivery team. The corrosion practice supports clients across water, energy, power generation, and other infrastructure markets through cathodic protection design, corrosion assessments, field investigations, system evaluations, and technical consulting.

Black & Veatch’s Infrastructure Advisory Business provides a portfolio of solutions focused on the asset lifecycle, including Condition Assessment, Asset Management, Operations & Maintenance, Infrastructure Technology, Cybersecurity, Planning, and Transactions.

The Consulting Team is a diverse group of professionals who work across a wide range of technical projects and disciplines, providing opportunities to build a strong technical foundation and develop deeper expertise as they advance in their careers.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead cathodic protection engineering and design tasks for new and existing infrastructure.

• Develop current cathodic protection system designs from concept through final design.

• Perform and review engineering calculations including protected surface area, coating breakdown, current requirements, anode resistance and life, groundbed resistance, rectifier sizing, voltage drop, circuit resistance, and related design calculations.

• Develop technical approaches for anode and groundbed configuration, rectifier and junction box selection, test stations, monitoring provisions, electrical isolation, continuity bonding, and interference mitigation.

• Prepare and review cathodic protection drawings, details, specifications, design criteria, technical memoranda, reports, cost estimates, and other design deliverables.

• Evaluate existing cathodic protection systems and develop rehabilitation, replacement, expansion, or optimization recommendations.

• Interpret soil resistivity, structure-to-electrolyte potential, current requirement, interference, and other field data for use in engineering design and system performance evaluation.

• Perform technical reviews and QA/QC of cathodic protection calculations, drawings, specifications, and reports prepared by other team members.

• Provide technical direction and mentoring to junior engineers, consultants, designers, and field personnel.

• Coordinate with civil, mechanical, electrical, structural, pipeline, and other engineering disciplines to integrate cathodic protection requirements into multidisciplinary designs.

• Lead technical discussions with clients and project teams and clearly explain design basis, alternatives, assumptions, risks, and recommendations.

• Support field investigations, commissioning, performance testing, and troubleshooting of cathodic protection systems when required.

• Manage assigned technical task budgets, schedules, quality requirements, and resource needs.

• Support project scopes, staffing plans, level-of-effort estimates, fee development, and proposal preparation.

• Preferred Qualifications

• AMPP CP3 certification or higher.

• Professional Engineer (PE) license.

• 8-10 years’ experience in the corrosion and cathodic protection consulting environment.

• Master’s degree in engineering or a related technical field.

• Extensive experience with galvanic and impressed current cathodic protection systems, including design development, engineering calculations, construction documents, specifications, and construction support for large-diameter metallic pipelines, water transmission infrastructure, tanks, power generation facilities, and other major infrastructure assets.

• Experience with electrical isolation, interference mitigation, AC/DC stray current considerations, and integration of cathodic protection syste