Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets.
We are more than 34,000 people, in over 30 countries, dedicated to improving quality of life. Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds, together we can solve the world’s most complex challenges and deliver more impact together.
Role Description:
We are seeking a Senior Industrial Wastewater Engineer to join our growing Industrial Wastewater Treatment team in Syracuse, NY. This is a unique opportunity to lead impactful projects across North America, working on cutting-edge treatment technologies that help industrial clients achieve sustainability, compliance, and operational excellence.
As a technical leader, you'll play a pivotal role in the planning, design, and implementation of advanced industrial wastewater treatment systems—from concept and feasibility studies through construction, commissioning, and long-term operations support. You'll collaborate with multidisciplinary teams, mentor emerging talent, and help shape the future of industrial water solutions.
Role Accountabilities:
As a Senior Industrial Wastewater Engineer, you will play a critical role in the planning, design, and delivery of sophisticated treatment solutions for industrial facilities across diverse sectors. You will also:
- Lead the technical delivery of complex industrial wastewater treatment projects throughout the full project lifecycle, from studies and design through startup and commissioning.
- Develop innovative treatment solutions utilizing physical, chemical, biological, membrane, filtration, adsorption, disinfection, thermal evaporation, and crystallization technologies.
- Partner with multidisciplinary engineering, environmental, and construction teams to deliver integrated, high-performance solutions.
- Provide technical leadership, mentoring, and guidance to engineers and designers while fostering professional growth across the team.
- Develop and strengthen strategic client relationships, identify opportunities for growth, contribute to business development initiatives, and support proposal development, client presentations, and project pursuits.
- Drive project success through effective planning, scheduling, budgeting, cost estimating, quality management, and risk mitigation.
Key Skills and Experience:
We're looking for someone with deep expertise in industrial wastewater treatment processes, technologies, and system design, and a proven track record of delivering complex industrial water projects for a diverse range of industrial clients. You possess strong leadership, communication, and relationship-building skills, coupled with the emotional intelligence needed to influence project teams, mentor developing engineers, and establish trusted partnerships with clients and stakeholders.
You have demonstrated success leading multidisciplinary projects from concept through implementation, including technical design, project execution, capital and operations and maintenance cost estimating, scheduling, work planning, and quality management. Beyond project delivery, you are recognized as a strategic thinker who understands client business objectives, industry trends, regulatory drivers, and emerging treatment technologies, enabling you to identify opportunities to expand client relationships and support business growth.
As a collaborative and innovative problem solver, you thrive in complex technical environments and are motivated by developing practical, sustainable solutions that create lasting value for clients. Above all, you are committed to safety, quality, continuous improvement, and building high-performing teams that deliver exceptional project outcomes.
Qualifications:
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Chemical, Civil, Environmental, Mechanical Engineering, or a related engineering discipline
- 10 years of experience in industrial wastewater treatment engineering
- Professional Engineer (PE) license in one or more states
Preferred Qualifications:
- Master's degree in Engineering or related field
- 14 years of industrial wastewater treatment experience
Why Arcadis?
We can only achieve our goals when everyone is empowered to be their best. We believe everyone's contribution matters. It’s why we are pioneering a skills-based approach, where you can harness your unique experience and expertise to carve your career path and maximize the impact we can make together.
You’ll do meaningful work, and no matter what role, you’ll be helping to deliver sustainable solutions for a more prosperous planet. Make your mark, on your career, your colleagues, your clients, your life and the world around you.
Together, we can create a lasting legacy.
Join Arcadis. Create a Legacy.
Our Commitment to Equality, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging
We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day. Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people. We are an equal opportunity employer. We are dedicated to a policy of non-discrimination in employment on any basis including race, creed, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, citizenship status, disability, veteran status, or any other basis prohibited by law.
Arcadis offers benefits for full-time and part-time positions. These benefits include medical, dental, and vision, EAP, 401K, STD, LTD, AD&D, life insurance, paid parental leave, reward & recognition program, and optional benefits including wellbeing benefits, adoption assistance, and tuition reimbursement. We offer nine paid holidays and 20 days PTO that accrue per year. The salary range for this position is $126,720 - $184,140. Actual salaries will vary and are based on several factors, such as experience, education, budget, internal equity, project, and location.
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Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Chemical, Civil, Environmental, Mechanical Engineering, or related engineering discipline
- 10 years of experience in industrial wastewater treatment engineering
- Professional Engineer (PE) license in one or more states
- Master's degree in Engineering or related field
- 14 years of industrial wastewater treatment experience
What We Do
Arcadis is the world’s leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, digital and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets. We are more than 36,000 architects, data analysts, designers, engineers, project planners, water management and sustainability experts, all driven by our passion for improving quality of life. We exist to find solutions to today’s most pressing challenges, from the impact of climate change to increasing urbanization and digital transformation – all with the goal of improving quality of life for people around the world. You can see this in the work we do for our clients, the opportunities we create for our people, and in our efforts to enhance the communities in which we live and work. We bring together world-class resources and the latest innovative technologies to help define the cities and experiences of tomorrow. Arcadis. Improving quality of life







