Remediation Project Engineer

Woodard & Curran is an employee-owned engineering, science, and operations firm dedicated to clean water, a safe environment, healthy communities, and happy people. We foster an inclusive, collaborative culture that supports professional growth, flexibility, and meaningful work, empowering our employees to make a lasting impact on our clients, communities, and the planet.

What's in it for you:

This position offers the chance to drive and grow remediation engineering services for a well-established, privately held, national environmental engineering and science firm. You'll collaborate with some of the industry's leading technical experts to provide innovative solutions on various complex projects. The role also includes increased leadership opportunities through higher visibility in the marketplace, client interactions, account development, and speaking engagements and publication opportunities. Additionally, it offers a flexible work environment, competitive benefits, strong bonus potential, stock ownership opportunities, and relocation assistance.

Offering Flexible Hybrid Work Schedule: 2 - 3 Days from office

Available Office Locations: Middletown, CT

Travel: up to 25% average throughout New England

Who are we looking for?

Woodard & Curran has an opportunity for a mid-level project engineer who can support and manage a diverse range of challenging and engaging remediation projects. The selected candidate will be a key contributor to an integrated and multi-disciplinary team that provides high-quality remediation and consulting services to our industrial, commercial, and municipal clients. The selected candidate will report directly to Project Managers in our National Environmental Remediation Practice and work directly with a diverse and talented group of engineers and scientists. The ideal candidate is a mid-level engineer with strong technical experience delivering high-quality remediation and consulting services to projects located across the firm's geography and core markets. The successful candidate will be an energetic, motivated, growth-oriented professional who can work independently and lead multi-disciplined project teams.

To name a few, these projects may include:

• Designing and implementing in situ and ex situ remediation technologies and performance monitoring programs.
• Leading field activities for pre-design investigations to advance remediation programs at complex remediation sites.
• Evaluating treatability test and field pilot study results to support teams in selecting, designing, and constructing full-scale remediation activities.
• Designing and optimizing the operations and performance of groundwater pump-and-treat remediation systems.

What will you be doing at Woodard & Curran?

• Conducting corrective measures/feasibility studies
• Developing detailed remedial designs including preparation of construction drawings, technical plans, engineering cost estimates, and specifications
• Evaluating remediation construction bids
• Estimating costs and developing and managing the scope, schedule, and budget for various project tasks
• Designing in situ and ex situ soil, sediment, and groundwater remedies
• Preparing technical reports in compliance with applicable environmental regulations
• Selecting, coordinating, and managing subcontractors
• Evaluating and mitigating vapor intrusion sites
• Managing remedial construction activities
• Managing and evaluating environmental data
• Remediating and/or redeveloping Brownfields sites
• Collaborating with project staff, clients, and regulatory agencies

What will you need to succeed?

• 5-10 years of professional experience with an environmental/engineering consulting firm.
• Bachelor's degree in Engineering from an accredited program.  Master's degree desirable.
• Registered Professional Engineer (PE) or Engineer-In-Training (EIT) is strongly preferred.
• Strong commitment to health, safety, and safe work practices mandatory.
• Demonstrated experience developing project scopes, cost estimates, and technical proposals, as well as implementing construction and remediation programs.
• Technical experience in the design and implementation of site remediation programs, including feasibility evaluations, remedy selection and optimization, design, operation, and lifecycle management of remedial treatment systems, in situ and ex situ treatment system technologies, site civil engineering and stormwater management design, and local/state/federal permitting.
• Remedial project management experience (scope, schedule, budget, risk, and resources).
• Experience managing remediation contractors and construction activities in the field.
• Excellent technical writing, communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively within multidisciplinary teams.
• Ability to mentor, coach, and develop junior staff.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office applications, including Word and Excel. Experience with ArcGIS, AutoCAD, stormwater modeling software, contaminant fate and transport modeling software, Python/R, and/or database software is preferred.
• A desire and drive to deliver innovative and effective services and to grow professionally and personally in an employee-focused, supportive work environment.
• 40-hour OSHA HAZWOPER and 10-hour OSHA Construction training is a plus.

$90,000 - $110,000 a year

The anticipated compensation range for this position is based on several factors, including the candidate's qualifications, experience, education, skills, and primary work location. Final compensation will be determined based on these factors and adjusted, where applicable, by a geographic differential. Geographic differentials are percentage-based adjustments that reflect variations in labor market costs across locations. As a result, the compensation range for this position may vary depending on where the successful candidate is located and performs their work. The examples below illustrate how compensation for this role may differ across geographic markets. #LI-TB1

Jared Port & Scott Soricelli

Middleton, CT - more office based, 25% - not a field role - more focused in the office, combo of both.

Expectation - not a full time in the field type of person, routinely every week, but will be times they will need to travel to sites to kick work off, do planning exercises, field oversight activities, etc. Modeling after Chris Williams. EIT or PE preferred.

Showcasing that they are working or thinking about PE - career goal. 5-10 years of experience needed.

Technical experience - design - need experience site remediation, optimization, (3-4 of those skills would be best)

Office 365, well rounded individual with some technical components, strong communication skills, fit in nicely with any team.

HEC-RAS - would like to see some form of the technologies listed.

GIS OR CAD - one of the other (both would be great.)

Middletown office - flexible work arrangements, they do a lot of team building, together days, quarterly office meetings, lunch meetings, Real expectation is first few months in office full time to acclimate and then migrate to more of a hybrid set-up.

Ian Adomeit, Keri Lauer, Kim Reinauert, Cayla Whiteside

Keri with Ian- Kim & Cayla Whiteside

Expanding the radius to 50 miles

Overall approach Jared, Ian and Adam in Middletown have very strong remediation skillsets. Applying civil engineering to projects, trying to build off of their strong skillset in the technical focus area. Build a team around them. Ian Adomeit is good searching on - maybe a little more experienced. Leverage Jared and Ian's expertise - provide coaching, project engineering level and staff level site civil focused.

Jared will be the People Leader

Look at the emails Jared sent with some candidate suggestions.

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