Job Description
HBK Engineering is seeking a Chief Engineer. HBK is looking to expand our client base in the Dallas/Fort Worth growing communities. The candidate will lead a team for a growing municipal engineering program in the west northeast DFW metroplex area. This position offers the opportunity to be part of a project team consisting of professional engineers, project engineers and designers who are involved in the design, modification, and analysis of new and existing municipal utility systems.
Since first opening our doors in 1998, HBK Engineering has quickly emerged as a leader in the utility infrastructure space through our experience on smart grid, modernization, resiliency, communications, fiber to the home (FTTH), and microgrid projects. Today, we’re a Quanta Services Company—a team of over 50,000 dedicated individuals offering end-to-end solutions for the utility, energy, and construction industries; the growth into providing municipal utility and treatment designs in the water and wastewater area is the focus of our DFW team.
Team members at HBK Engineering are committed to designing the future we want to live in, and safety is at the center of everything we do. HBK Engineering offers a professional environment where you’ll work alongside some of the best talent in the industry. We offer excellent benefits, competitive salary, employee resource groups, and a community-focused environment where our staff members believe in giving back. At HBK Engineering, you’ll discover a culture where the values of diversity, equity, and inclusion are exemplified by all. Better outcomes are achieved when we bring our authentic selves to work daily.
Our sights are set on the future, and we invite you to rise to the challenge.
The responsibilities of the position include, but are not limited to: - Lead a team to assist the client in their engineering needs.
- Responsible for the oversight of the planning, design and installation of new activated sludge plant and surface water treatment plant facilities.
- Manage, supervise, and schedule execution of projects.
- Monitor projects' productivity, quality, and progress
- Develop and maintain external client relationships.
- Ensure project safety and remain within projects' cost constraints.
- Lead, support and direct engineering staff in planning, scheduling, and implementation of designs and testing.
- Lead a project team consisting of project engineers, designers, and field personnel involved in the design of linear utility and land development projects, including plan and specification preparation, stormwater management calculations as well as client and jurisdictional stakeholder coordination Mentor engineers and designers
- Negotiate revisions, changes and additions to contractual agreements with sub-consultants and clients.
- Manage, develop, and evaluate resources within the project team.
- Lead Safety initiatives as needed by the organization.
- Manage, monitor, and maintain contracts related to projects.
- Travel Required as needed (50% local travel expected).
Required Qualifications - 15+ years of relevant experience in waste water and drinking water - required.
- Must have a Professional Engineering license - required.
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering.
- Water and wastewater process design experience.
- Technical expertise related to executing projects in the public right-of-way.
- Previous engineering, design or construction management experience.
- Experience obtaining approvals from jurisdictional authorities.
Preferred Skills - Experience with hydraulic modeling of closed pipe and/of open pipe conveyance networks.
- Experience with lift station designs and automation.
- Experience with pump station designs and automation.
- Experience with water storage tank design and modeling of ground and elevated systems.
- Ability to implement and maintain policies.
- Strong technical writing ability.
- Ability to work under time-sensitive deadlines.
- Proficient in MS Office products.
Background Check and Drug Testing Information Offers contingent upon satisfactory results from our standard background check and receipt of results of a satisfactory drug screening test from a location specified by HBK.
EEO HBK is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, and othe r legally protected characteristics
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