Water & Wastewater Engineer (Industrial Effluent)

The Water/Wastewater Engineer ensures that industrial effluent treatment plants run reliably, efficiently, and in full regulatory compliance. You’ll design, operate, and tune pre-treatment, DAF, and biological systems so that every sample routine or surprise stands up to NEMA and utility scrutiny. The work is hands-on: stable flows, correct dosing, healthy biology, and predictable sludge handling.

Day to day, you’ll interpret lab results, adjust aeration and chemical regimes, and optimize energy use across pumps, blowers, and mixers. You’ll keep critical equipment service-ready, maintain spare part strategies, and coordinate with vendors for calibrations, media, membranes, or chemical supply. Sludge dewatering and compliant disposal will fall squarely within your remit, supported by tight documentation and clear operating logs.

You’ll also maintain inspection readiness permits, sampling records, trend charts, and process KPIs that show control rather than reaction. Your role balances cost and performance, constantly reducing chemical consumption per cubic metre treated while protecting uptime and effluent quality.

This position fits an engineer with 4–6 years in effluent treatment systems and strong fundamentals in process control, dosing, and biological operations. High performers typically progress to Senior Wastewater Engineer, then Utilities Manager, and ultimately Sustainability/ESG Technical Lead as part of the ideal growth pathway.