Engineer - Water
Columbia, MOJobSeen 1w agoSeen in employer's feed 5 days ago
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The Engineer - Water provides professional engineering design, maintenance, and technical support to ensure proper function, adequate capacity, and regulatory compliance. The role prepares and reviews engineering designs and project documents, manages capital improvement projects from identification through acceptance, and conducts technical reviews. It also supports public processes, participates in meetings and concept reviews, and communicates with customers.
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The purpose of this job is to provide professional engineering design, maintenance, and technical support. Ensures proper function, adequate capacity, and regulatory compliance. - Prepares, modifies, reviews, and/or submits engineering and construction designs, plans, reports, estimates, and specifications. - Collects and maintains data for engineering projects and departments. Analyzes and validates data. - Manages capital improvement projects from identification and prioritization through design, construction, and final acceptance. - Calculates and prepares cost estimates for construction projects, technical specifications, and written reports. - Conducts technical reviews on engineering and construction proposals, reports, plans, and calculations - Ensures plans, specifications, estimates, and reports comply with local, state, and federal requirements and regulations. - Regular attendance is a necessary and essential function. - Ensures projects follow the public process and comply with City ordinances. - Participates in public meetings, concept reviews, and communicates with customers. Skill in: - Estimating time and materials needed to complete jobs. - Communicating verbally and in writing to meet the needs of the audience. - Collecting, organizing, and analyzing complex and/or technical data. Education and Experience - Bachelor's Degree in Engineering or a related field appropriate to the job responsibilities. - 3 to 5 years' experience in engineering, construction, or a related field Licenses or Certifications - Professional Engineer (P.E.) license. - Valid driver's license.
How this job compares
Set against the 456 open Water Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 4, 2026.
- Pay
- This postingNot listed
- US median$118–177K/yr285 salary ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 13 open Water Engineer jobs in Missouri and 456 across the US. 5% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 3 years of experience — less than three in four Water Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for (median 8 years, across 407 postings).
- Education
- This posting asks for a bachelor's degree; 357 of the 456 open Water Engineer jobs (78%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 4, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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