Job Description

At CDM Smith, technical leadership shapes the future of water infrastructure. If you're driven by influence, autonomy, and solving complex municipal water challenges, this is a role where your expertise truly matters.

As a Process Mechanical Technical Lead, you will serve as a trusted technical authority on high-impact municipal water and wastewater projects. You will guide multidisciplinary teams, mentor engineers, and translate complex challenges into practical, resilient solutions that benefit communities nationwide. Your Impact You will lead the process mechanical vision for projects from concept through delivery-setting standards for quality, constructability, and performance while collaborating closely with project managers, clients, and design teams.

How You Will Contribute

Provide Technical Leadership: Set and maintain technical direction for complex municipal water and wastewater projects, ensuring accuracy, quality, and regulatory compliance.

Lead Process Mechanical Design:

-Develop evaluations and designs for pumping and treatment facilities, including pump selection and hydraulic calculations

-Process and mechanical piping layouts

-Equipment and tank sizing and specification

Drive Innovation:

-Identify and implement alternative designs and system improvements that enhance efficiency, resilience, and long-term performance.

Collaborate Across Disciplines: Partner with BIM and design teams to optimize layouts, resolve constructability challenges, and produce high-quality drawings.

Deliver Contract Documents: Prepare technical specifications and front-end contract documents for publicly bid municipal projects.

Analyze & Optimize Systems: Support water quality analyses, modeling efforts, and system performance evaluations.

Ensure Compliance & Quality: Review designs, reports, and deliverables to meet client expectations, firm standards, and regulatory requirements.

Mentor & Develop Talent: Provide technical guidance, training, and mentorship to junior engineers, fostering growth and collaboration.

Advance Technical Knowledge: Author technical papers, contribute to industry publications, and present at conferences and professional forums.

Engage Clients & Support Growth: Participate in proposal development, client meetings, and solution development for evolving municipal needs.

Why You Will Love Working Here

Impactful Work: Lead large-scale projects across reuse, water treatment plants (WTP), wastewater treatment plants (WWTP), conveyance, sewer systems, biosolids, lead service line (LSL) programs, PFAS treatment, and more.

Career Advancement: Grow through mentorship, leadership pathways, and exposure to some of the industry's most challenging and innovative projects.

Collaborative Culture: Join a team that values integrity, technical excellence, creativity, and collaboration.

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Skills & Abilities

What Sets You Apart

• Strong process mechanical design expertise, including plant hydraulics, pumping systems, piping systems, and blower systems.
• Demonstrated ability to lead technical teams and mentor engineers.
• A passion for innovation and a commitment to delivering high-quality, impactful solutions.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Civil, Environmental, Chemical Engineering, or a related discipline (or equivalent directly related experience).
• Professional Engineer (PE) license.
• 10+ years of relevant water and wastewater engineering experience.
• Willingness to travel domestically and/or internationally as project needs require.

Amount of Travel Required

10% or less
Pay Range Min

USD $100,214.00
Pay Range Max

USD $175,365.00
Additional Pay Range Information

CDM Smith is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. This pay range is a good faith estimate representative of all experience levels for the geographic location assigned to the position. In addition to geographic location, a candidate's salary is determined by several other factors including, but not limited to, the role, function and associated responsibilities, relevant work experience, skills, required certifications, and education/training.
Additional Compensation

All bonuses at CDM Smith are discretionary and may or may not apply to this position.
Visa Sponsorship Available

No-We will not support sponsorship in the United States, i.e. H-1B or TN Visas for this position
Agency Disclaimer

All vendors must have a signed CDM Smith Placement Agreement from the CDM Smith Talent Acquisition Manager to receive payment for your placement. Verbal or written commitments from any other member of the CDM Smith Inc. and its divisions and subsidiaries staff will not be considered binding terms. All unsolicited resumes sent to CDM Smith Inc. and its divisions and subsidiaries and any resume submitted to any employee outside of CDM Smith Talent Acquisition Team will be considered property of CDM Smith. CDM Smith Inc. and its divisions and subsidiaries will not be held liable to pay a placement fee.