Senior Engineer

Remote · Dallas, TXFull-timePosted Aug 4, 2026

Brown and Caldwell (BC) has an exciting opportunity for a Senior Engineer, focused on biosolids thickening, dewatering, and thermal processes to join our Solids & Energy Practice. This position is a strategic hire to build our capacity to deliver and innovate for our clients.

This Senior Engineer role independently performs a wide range of environmental engineering tasks associated with the analysis, planning, and development of solutions that promote environmental protection, water sustainability, and responsible resource management. Working with limited supervision, this role delivers technical work that improves environmental and public health outcomes across natural and engineered systems. This position addresses environmental and public health protection, mitigation, and prevention of degradation of water, soils, air quality, and habitats. This role may support multiple practice areas including water and wastewater treatment and conveyance, stormwater management, solid and hazardous waste management, and related disciplines. This role independently conducts analysis, modeling, and design of systems and produces engineering deliverables including reports, plans, specifications, and recommendations.

While you will have the opportunity to work on other projects and disciplines, this position assumes at least 50% of your time will be devoted to thickening, dewatering, and thermal process projects. This is part of an intentional effort to fast track the growth of thickening, dewatering, and thermal process specialists into the next generation of subject matter experts at BC. This will be accomplished by pairing you on strategic projects/pursuits with BC’s subject matter experts.

In this new role, you will work with and be mentored by strong, nationally recognized, senior technical staff on thickening, dewatering, and thermal process projects across the country. The successful candidate will assist in growing BC’s Solids specialty and lead teams to deliver exceptional service to our municipal and private-sector clients. In this role, you will support business development, lead execution of high-quality solutions, develop talent, and create and enforce standards to drive our technical differentiation from that of our competitors in the technical areas of thickening, dewatering, and conveyance of thickened sludge and dewatered cake.

Remote work from the continental U.S. is allowed; preferred location would be near one of our offices in the Western U.S.

Responsibilities

Develop, maintain, and ensure the consistent application of technical standards, guidelines, and best practices across projects and teams.
Engage on project delivery teams nationally to achieve project goals, ensuring the application of quality standards and best practices to maintain consistency of technical delivery and mitigate risks throughout the project lifecycle.
Build and maintain strong relationships with clients, understanding their needs and developing tailored technical solutions.
Support Practice leader with SMS governance and systems to drive talent development for technical practitioners.
Assist with development of technical training and mentoring programs within the Practice.
Flexibility to adapt and execute various additional assignments based on evolving needs.

Mentorship

May provide mentorship, guidance, support, and knowledge-sharing to help less experienced team members develop their skills and grow within their roles.

Skills and Competencies

Demonstrates a solid understanding of principles and practices within their technical area, with the ability to apply them effectively in various scenarios.
Capable of conveying complex technical information to both technical and non-technical audiences, ensuring clarity and understanding.
Exhibits strong teamwork abilities, fostering collaboration and building cohesive teams to achieve project goals.
Ensures adherence to quality standards and best practices, maintaining consistency and mitigating risks in technical delivery.
Able to deliver compelling technical presentations, effectively communicating ideas and solutions to diverse audiences.
Ability to mentor talent for SMS affiliated with the Practice demonstrating a culture of talent development through the Practice.
Presentation skills with ability to communicate to clients, as well as at conferences and industry association events.

Experience

Typically requires minimum of 5 years in assigned technical area related experience.
Typically will become certified in BC's Subject Matter Specialist (SMS) Framework and progress through the SMS competencies.

Preferred Experience

10 years of increasing responsibility in related thickening/dewatering/thermal process experience.
Demonstrated experience in the planning, design and construction of thickening, dewatering, and/or thermal process projects.
Task lead experience.
Experience designing thickening, dewatering, or thermal process projects and preparing construction documents including drawings, P&IDs, specifications, control narratives, technical memoranda, etc.
Strong written and verbal communication skills with demonstrated ability to conduct effective presentations and prepare written reports and documents.
Strong aptitude for solving technical problems.
Strong project or task management skills.
Proficiency with Microsoft Suite including Word, Outlook, Project, Excel and PowerPoint.

Education

A degree in Engineering, Science, Geology, or a related field with an emphasis related to the technical role required.

Preferred Education

Has achieved or is working towards achieving professional license.

Salary Range: The anticipated starting pay range for this position is based on the employee’s primary work location and may be more or less depending upon skills, experience, and education. These ranges may be modified in the future.

Location A: $129,000 - $177,000
Location B: $142,000 - $194,000
Location C: $155,000 - $212,000

You can view which BC location applies to you here. If you have any questions, please speak with your Recruiter.

Benefits and Other Compensation: We provide a comprehensive benefits package that promotes employee health, performance, and success which includes medical, dental, vision, short and long-term disability, life insurance, an employee assistance program, paid time off and parental leave, paid holidays, 401(k) retirement savings plan with employer match, performance-based bonus eligibility, employee referral bonuses, tuition reimbursement, pet insurance and long-term care insurance. Click here to see our full list of benefits.

About Brown and Caldwell

Headquartered in Walnut Creek, California, Brown and Caldwell is a full-service environmental engineering and construction services firm with 50 offices and over 2,100 professionals across North America and the Pacific. For more than 75 years, we have created leading-edge environmental solutions for municipalities, private industry, and government agencies. We strive to be the company of choice—to our clients, who benefit from our passion for delivering exceptional quality, and to our employees, present and future, who share our commitment to client service, collaboration, and innovation. Join us, and you will find a home where you can do your best work, reach new levels of expertise, and enjoy exceptional development opportunities. For more information, visit www.brownandcaldwell.com

This position is subject to a pre-employment background check and a pre-employment drug test.

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