Principal Engineer

Join our Hazen team and make the world a better place providing exceptional client service in all things water^® and superior technical solutions for our clients. Hazen is an innovative and cutting-edge company with minimal bureaucracy where employees thrive. 

Hazen has outstanding opportunities for motivated, talented people that enjoy teamwork and collaboration, client service, and solving our clients’ most difficult challenges.

Job Description

As a Principal Engineer you will apply your unique skills and insights as part of teams. 

The position includes delivering public sector water and wastewater facilities planning and design projects. In your role you will support projects as a critical part of the design team, a design lead, a task manager, and/or a project manager. You will prepare facility assessment and design reports, perform design calculations, perform process and/or hydraulic modeling, select and size equipment, prepare design documents and construction documents, support construction phase services both in office and in the field. Field work and site visits from planning through construction may require occasional travel. You will support and mentor junior engineers and will be supported by multiple senior mentors on projects and local and regional office leadership.

Qualifications and Skills

      Required

• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• PE license (Virginia, or ability to be licensed in Virginia via comity)
• Minimum of 1 year following PE licensure of documented design experience for water/wastewater facilities projects
• Experience working on and collaborating with multidisciplinary teams 
• Experience supervising, coordinating and reviewing work by junior and technical staff
• Ability to estimate workload and develop schedules
• Proficient in standard software platforms (e.g., Microsoft Office Suite, etc.)
• Strong organizational skills

      Preferred

• Experience serving as Project Manager for water/wastewater facility projects
• Experience supporting proposal preparation and participating in interviews
• Experience communicating and coordinating with clients
• Experience mentoring junior and technical staff
• Experience delivering water and/or wastewater facility projects from preliminary design through construction
• Familiarity with CADD, GIS, Revit, and/or other software

Education

      Required

• Bachelor of Science degree in Civil, Environmental, Chemical, or Mechanical Engineering

      Preferred

• Master of Science degree in Civil Engineering, Environmental Engineering or Construction Management