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Job Description
If you’re driven by complex systems, technical ownership, and solving high‑consequence water challenges, CDM Smith offers the platform to lead at scale. Here, technical leadership is core to how we deliver excellence.
Your Technical Impact
As a Project Technical Leader, you will set the technical foundation for multidisciplinary water and wastewater projects—guiding teams from concept through delivery.
You’ll translate program objectives into constructible, compliant designs while advancing best practices, mentoring engineers, and ensuring every solution performs as intended for the communities served.
How You Will Contribute
• Establish Technical Direction: Define and oversee the technical approach for complex municipal water and wastewater projects, ensuring design integrity, regulatory alignment, and delivery excellence.
• Deliver Advanced Facility Designs: Perform and review evaluations and designs for pumping and treatment facilities, including:
o Hydraulic and pump system analyses
o Process piping and equipment layouts
o Tankage, mechanical systems, and equipment sizing and selection
• Optimize System Performance: Develop alternative concepts and resilience‑focused solutions that improve reliability, efficiency, and lifecycle performance.
• Integrate Design Technologies: Partner closely with BIM specialists to coordinate models, resolve conflicts, and produce detailed construction documents.
• Support Contract Delivery: Prepare technical specifications, basis‑of‑design narratives, and front‑end contract documents for publicly bid projects.
• Analyze and Validate: Conduct water quality evaluations, process modeling, and system analyses to support informed engineering decisions.
• Ensure Standards and Compliance: Review technical deliverables for consistency with client requirements, regulatory frameworks, and CDM Smith quality standards.
• Develop Technical Talent: Mentor and train junior engineers, fostering technical growth and reinforcing a culture of rigor and accountability.
• Advance the Profession: Contribute to technical papers, industry publications, and conference presentations that advance firm and industry knowledge.
• Engage Strategically: Support proposal development and collaborate with clients to shape technically sound, forward‑looking solutions.
Why Engineers Choose CDM Smith
• Challenging, High‑Impact Work: Lead large‑scale efforts across Reuse, WTP, WWTP, Conveyance, Sewer, Biosolids, LSL, PFAS, and emerging treatment challenges.
• Technical Growth and Leadership: Expand your influence through mentorship, visible technical leadership roles, and exposure to complex delivery models.
• Culture of Technical Excellence: Work alongside engineers who value precision, innovation, collaboration, and professional integrity.
Your Technical Impact
As a Project Technical Leader, you will set the technical foundation for multidisciplinary water and wastewater projects—guiding teams from concept through delivery.
You’ll translate program objectives into constructible, compliant designs while advancing best practices, mentoring engineers, and ensuring every solution performs as intended for the communities served.
How You Will Contribute
• Establish Technical Direction: Define and oversee the technical approach for complex municipal water and wastewater projects, ensuring design integrity, regulatory alignment, and delivery excellence.
• Deliver Advanced Facility Designs: Perform and review evaluations and designs for pumping and treatment facilities, including:
o Hydraulic and pump system analyses
o Process piping and equipment layouts
o Tankage, mechanical systems, and equipment sizing and selection
• Optimize System Performance: Develop alternative concepts and resilience‑focused solutions that improve reliability, efficiency, and lifecycle performance.
• Integrate Design Technologies: Partner closely with BIM specialists to coordinate models, resolve conflicts, and produce detailed construction documents.
• Support Contract Delivery: Prepare technical specifications, basis‑of‑design narratives, and front‑end contract documents for publicly bid projects.
• Analyze and Validate: Conduct water quality evaluations, process modeling, and system analyses to support informed engineering decisions.
• Ensure Standards and Compliance: Review technical deliverables for consistency with client requirements, regulatory frameworks, and CDM Smith quality standards.
• Develop Technical Talent: Mentor and train junior engineers, fostering technical growth and reinforcing a culture of rigor and accountability.
• Advance the Profession: Contribute to technical papers, industry publications, and conference presentations that advance firm and industry knowledge.
• Engage Strategically: Support proposal development and collaborate with clients to shape technically sound, forward‑looking solutions.
Why Engineers Choose CDM Smith
• Challenging, High‑Impact Work: Lead large‑scale efforts across Reuse, WTP, WWTP, Conveyance, Sewer, Biosolids, LSL, PFAS, and emerging treatment challenges.
• Technical Growth and Leadership: Expand your influence through mentorship, visible technical leadership roles, and exposure to complex delivery models.
• Culture of Technical Excellence: Work alongside engineers who value precision, innovation, collaboration, and professional integrity.