Who We Are
Dudek is a leading environmental, planning, and engineering firm that help public and private clients plan, design, and build projects that improve communities’ built and natural infrastructure. Founded in 1980, Dudek has grown steadily to more than 800 professionals across the U.S. and received the Top Workplace Award for 2024.

As a 100% employee-owned company, Dudek’s culture rewards smart, productive team members with ownership, professional development, and financial benefits. We seek creative, pragmatic problem-solvers working at the intersection of science, engineering, regulations, and multiple stakeholders’ interest to help clients achieve project goals.
We encourage collaboration, sustainability, and innovation.

At Dudek, we abide by shared values:
Trust: We trust each other to use good judgment.
Respect: We act professionally and treat each other fairly.
Teamwork: We come together, share openly, and apply diverse perspectives.
Fun: We take our work seriously…not ourselves.
Well-Being: We care about each other’s health, safety, and total wellness.

Our culture is the foundation of who we are and how we work. We empower our employee-owners to invest in our local communities and themselves through initiatives that make Dudek a great place to work! Our cultural programs include:

DuGreen: Our sustainability initiative, which works to improve our environmental footprint
DuGood: Our philanthropic initiative, which seeks to support the communities in which we live and work through fundraising challenges, office based giving and opportunity to take a paid volunteer day each year.
eDUcate: Our educational outreach program where we aim to foster interest in our work and careers in the environmental and engineering field by participating in educational events in our communities.
DuWell: Our wellness initiative, aimed at providing education on wellness, benefit resources, and preventive care

At Dudek, we recognize that different perspectives, inclusivity, trust and belonging build a stronger culture and add value to our firm. Dudek's Employee Resource (ERGs) operate as diversity champions within Dudek and create a safe space for underrepresented employees and their allies to support, collaborate, network, and brainstorm ways to make Dudek’s work community more inclusive. We currently have ERGs for:

Women at Dudek
Members of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer (LGBTQ+) community
Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) employees
Disabled employees (all disabilities, seen / unseen)

Learn more about our culture.

About The Job
Dudek is currently seeking a full-time Senior Engineer in our Engineering Division. This position provides planning and design support as part of a project team for water, wastewater, and recycled water projects, predominantly focused on treatment-related planning and design. The ideal candidate would be a professional engineer with 5 plus years of experience in water infrastructure and treatment and civil engineering. This position will be based out of one of our California offices with work-from-home flexibility available.

Our Work
Our engineering work specific to water and wastewater treatment facilities is particularly exciting and rewarding. Our smaller and nimble team structure allow us to fill a market inefficiency because most water and wastewater treatment engineering services have been consolidated to either larger firms and/or specialized firms, leaving a hole for our team to fill in the small to mid-sized treatment plant market (up to 15 MGD capacity). Our high-quality work has led to long-lasting and rewarding relationships with agencies who appreciate our custom engineered solutions for their needs after being overlooked and/or underserved by bigger firms. We typically get involved with our clients at the planning stage and work with them through planning, design, and construction to see projects through from start to finish. We emphasize collaboration with our clients’ operations and maintenance staff to provide engineering solutions that meet their needs within the available budget.

A senior engineer in this role would gain exposure to a wide variety of treatment-related engineering projects, including planning work (facility plans, process evaluation, alternatives analysis, O&M optimization, risk & reliability assessments, etc.), design work (unit process design and/or full plant design including in-house mechanical design, civil design, and coordination with subconsultants for electrical, structural, and architectural design), and engineering services during construction (submittal & RFI review, change order review, and startup support). Our work is diverse and exciting which leads to rapid career growth and persistent learning opportunities for our team members. Our senior engineers enjoy the opportunity to gain client-facing opportunities and exposure to business development and project management tasks and responsibilities.

Our typical work contracts vary from small planning and feasibility studies to large $1M+ design contracts. We strive to develop strong, long-lasting relationships with good, reasonable clients who appreciate our work and expertise. We have an established resume for treatment projects within California and a team of engineers with a “doer” mentality ready to support an engineer in this role.

Learn more about the projects you will have the opportunity to shape.

Who You Are
To thrive at Dudek, you should be comfortable with freedom and accountability. We value collaborative, resourceful, and independent thinkers. We look for curious, solution-focused people who are able to adapt quickly to an ever-changing industry. There is no single way to solve a problem, so we support your creative approaches to solve problems.
Our staff who find career growth, satisfaction, and long-tenured success at Dudek in a Senior Engineer role are typically people who:

are seeking a more broad, diversified role that includes early career exposure to business development and client relations.
are self-starters and team players with the mentality to get tasks done and keep themselves busy.
have early career interest in learning and gaining exposure to project management both in terms of staffing, financials, and team management as well as technical oversight and managing the completion of project deliverables.

Our senior engineers are supported by a team of talented project managers and project engineers, CAD designers, marketing staff, and more. The Dudek culture is one that supports the senior engineer as critical to project success and encourages collaboration to support each other in the successful completion of projects and pursuits for new projects. Our bonus compensation structure is one that encourages collaboration, performance, and career growth throughout the team and has resulted in our division being highly profitable with sustained organic growth for many years.

Duties and Responsibilities:

Execution of projects under the supervision of a Project Manager for planning and analysis of water, wastewater and/or recycled water processes and facilities, including capacity analysis, facility plans, alternatives analysis, condition assessment, process evaluations, risk assessment, O&M optimization, and more.
Execution of projects under the supervision of a Project Manager for design of water, wastewater and/or conveyance and treatment processes and facilities, open channel hydraulics, pump stations, reservoirs / storage facilities, treatment equipment (i.e., screens, clarifiers, blowers, dewatering equipment, filters, among others), including development of project plans, specification packages, calculations packages, and construction cost estimates.
Capability to work in the field, including construction observation, inspections, field measurements, and monitoring equipment setup, as necessary.
Capability to travel within California including but not limited to meeting with clients, plant site walks, attending conferences and professional organization events, and perform project-related field work, as necessary.
Training and delegating tasks to Project Engineers in order to balance workload and efficiently get project tasks completed.

Minimum Requirements

Bachelor’s Degree in Civil, Environmental, Mechanical Engineering or a similar discipline.
5 plus years engineering experience in planning and design of mechanical and treatment related projects.
Professional Civil and/or Mechanical Engineer licensed in the State of California.
Skilled in the use of Microsoft office (Word and Excel), have excellent writing, organizational, communication and interpersonal skills.
Experience with design software including AutoCAD.
The ideal candidate will contribute to and gain experience from Dudek’s qualified team to respond to request for proposals, deliver quality work, build relationships, and engage in professional growth opportunities.

* As a federal contractor, successful candidates are required to pass the following pre-employment requirements prior to beginning employment: pre - employment drug test and background check.

Physical Requirements
Working Conditions:

This job operates in a remote or office-based environment and this role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, printers, etc.
This job requires occasional project site visits-based outdoors which can include excessive noise, uneven walking surfaces, extreme weather, moving vehicles and equipment.

Physical Requirements: The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met in order to successfully perform the essential functions of the job.

This job requires working on a computer, sitting or standing for long periods of time in an office or remote office setting.
This job requires attending meetings, both in person and virtually as well as speaking on the phone with peers, clients, etc. Speaking, hearing and listening are required.
Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Proposed Salary Range: $98,000-$120,000 annually *

*Final agreed upon compensation will be based on a variety of factors including but not limited to an individual’s related experience, education, certifications, skills, and work location.

Perks of Being a Dudekian
At Dudek we will provide you with a competitive salary in an environment that promotes growth, career development, and a flexible work–life balance. Dudek offers an array of benefits, from medical, dental, and vision coverage, to the discretionary bonuses, based on firmwide, divisional, and individual performance.

We also offer a yearly merit review, an employee stock ownership program, and dog friendly offices! To honor our key value of well-being, Dudek provides a generous vacation package. If you’re tired of an overly bureaucratic decision-making process and want to be part of a work culture that puts its employees first, speak with your recruiter to learn more about the great perks of being a Dudekian.

Dudek is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national or ethnic origin, age, disability, protected veteran status, or other characteristics protected by applicable law.

Dudek is a U.S.-based employer. All positions are based in the U.S. and require U.S. work authorization.

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