Senior Drinking Water Treatment Technologist (Florida)

Water is life. At Jacobs, we’re redefining what’s possible in water. From advanced treatment and potable reuse to desalination, our teams deliver the resources communities and industries need to thrive. We bring a OneWater perspective to complex challenges, including emerging contaminants such as PFAS.

We’re looking for a Senior Drinking Water Treatment Engineer to join our team in Florida. This position is open to qualified candidates located anywhere in the state, with opportunities to support clients and projects across Florida and beyond.

As a senior technical leader, you’ll help plan, evaluate, design, and deliver drinking water treatment projects. You’ll apply your experience with treatment processes, piloting, modeling, and regulatory requirements to develop practical, reliable solutions for our clients. You’ll work across planning and design, as well as delivery models that may include Design-Bid-Build, Design-Build, and Progressive Design-Build.

Jacobs offers a broad portfolio of local, national, and global water projects, with opportunities to grow in technical leadership, project delivery, client service, or a combination of these paths. You’ll collaborate with experienced water professionals, share knowledge across teams, and help develop the next generation of technical talent.

We support career growth through mentoring, training, conference opportunities, and personalized career planning. You’ll also be part of an inclusive workplace where people can bring their full selves to work, connect through Jacobs Employee Networks, and take advantage of flexible work options.

Join Jacobs and help deliver safe, reliable drinking water to communities across Florida and beyond.

What you’ll do

• Lead or contribute to planning, evaluation, and design for drinking water treatment projects, from early studies through detailed design and delivery.

• Evaluate treatment technologies and alternatives based on source water conditions, treatment goals, regulatory requirements, cost, reliability, and operational needs.

• Develop process designs, calculations, models, technical memoranda, reports, and design criteria.

• Plan and support pilot testing, treatability studies, and process evaluations; interpret results and apply findings to project recommendations.

• Develop and review process flow diagrams, process and instrumentation diagrams, equipment selections, specifications, and construction documents.

• Coordinate with project managers and multidisciplinary teams, including civil, structural, mechanical, electrical, instrumentation and controls, and environmental professionals.

• Provide technical guidance to clients and project teams on drinking water treatment processes, supply considerations, master planning, and applicable regulatory requirements.

• Support project delivery during construction, startup, and commissioning by reviewing submittals, responding to technical questions, and helping resolve process-related issues.

• Build and maintain client relationships, contribute to proposals and interviews, and identify opportunities to support clients’ water programs.

• Mentor and support developing engineers and contribute to technical quality, knowledge sharing, and continuous improvement across the team.

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering; Environmental, Civil, or Mechanical Engineering preferred.

• 10 or more years of progressive process engineering and project delivery experience in drinking water treatment.

• Experience with drinking water treatment planning, process evaluations, piloting, modeling, and detailed design.

• Demonstrated understanding of drinking water supply, master planning, and treatment processes and technologies.

• Familiarity with applicable state and federal regulatory frameworks for water treatment.

• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to explain technical findings and recommendations to clients and project teams.

• Initiative and self-direction, demonstrated through project leadership, professional society involvement, or related activities.

• Current residence in Florida and ability to support projects and clients across the state.

Ideally, you’ll also have

• Master’s degree or other graduate degree in Engineering; Environmental, Civil, or Mechanical Engineering preferred.

• Professional Engineer license in Florida, or the ability to obtain Florida licensure through reciprocity.

• Established relationships with Florida municipalities, utilities, or other water and wastewater clients.

• Experience mentoring engineers, leading technical work, or supporting business development.

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