Principal Water Engineer

About the Role As a Principal Water Engineer, you’ll be the technical force behind municipal water treatment projects, turning advanced treatment concepts into safe, constructible solutions. You’ll lead process engineering, drive treatment optimization, and guide multidisciplinary teams across the project lifecycle to deliver design and construction-ready solutions that meet safety, reliability, and cost objectives. You’ll mentor the next generation of water engineers and act as the trusted technical voice throughout pursuits, design development, startup and commissioning. What You'll Do

• Provide technical and engineering leadership for Municipal Water treatment design, including selecting and sizing treatment technologies, development and validation of process flow diagrams and mass balances.
• Serve as technical authority as the “go to” expert for treatment process decisions, approve critical design deliverables and technical calculations.
• Mentor Senior and mid-level engineers within the team.
• Establish and enforce Kiewit’s water design standards and best practices.
• Ensure designs are constructible, cost effective and aligned with field execution. This includes participating in model reviews, constructability workshops and value engineering, as well as supporting procurement of major equipment packages.
• Lead proposals and pursuits, shaping technical strategy for major water pursuits. Develop process narratives, basis of design documents and proposal content, and support client interviews and presentations.
• Oversee project delivery through managing multi-disciplinary design teams, while ensuring quality control across all engineering deliverables for your project.
• Support permitting, startup, commissioning and operator training.
• Communicate/present industry trends, competitive situations or technology/regulatory issues.
• Actively participate in professional organizations. Be a practice leader for Kiewit in the Water market. What We're Looking For
• Bachelor's degree or higher in Chemical, Mechanical, or Civil/Environmental Engineering or related engineering discipline.
• Minimum of 15 years’ experience in process development, conceptual and detailed design with a background in the municipal and/or Industrial water market.
• Professional Engineer (PE) registration preferred.
• Understanding of federal, state and local regulations and requirements related to water characterization, treatment and discharge.
• Experience as process design engineering lead on design-build projects is preferred.
• Must be willing and available to accommodate intermittent travel (20-30% maximum expected) if located at one of our main office facilities. If working remotely, travel may be up to 50% but would be scheduled travel.
• Preferred experience utilizing AFT Fathom or AFT Arrow hydraulic simulation software (or equivalent) and/or experience with process modeling and simulation software applications such as Biowin, GPS-X, Hysys and/or Aspen, WatPro, AqMB, SIMBA etc. Nice to Have
• Preferred experience with AFT Fathom/Arrow and/or process modeling tools such as Biowin, GPS-X, Hysys, Aspen, WatPro, AqMB, SIMBA. Compensation & Benefits
• Relocation assistance available to office locations.
• Role based in Lenexa, KS; Lone Tree, CO; Houston, TX; or Dallas/Fort Worth, TX, with remote options for uniquely qualified candidates.