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Water Engineer

Arcadis
Syracuse, NY Full Time
POSTED ON 9/8/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 12/23/2025

Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets.

We are more than 36,000 people, in over 70 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 looking for a Water Engineer to support our team in Syracuse, NY. In Engineering, you'll create some of the world’s most iconic and ground-breaking structures and spaces that transform the world around us, from making journeys easier to opening up public places that bring people together.  

We work to protect our natural environment and water resources, while powering our world for future generations. Around the world, we’re feeling the effects climate change, rapid urbanization, loss of biodiversity. The rate at which we’re seeing large-scale, unforeseen events such as floods and wildfires, is becoming more frequent. We are here to protect our natural environment and water resources, while powering our world for future generations. 

Role accountabilities:

As a Water Engineer, you will evaluate, plan, design and support management of projects for water/wastewater treatment and conveyance (pipelines, treatment, and pumping facilities). You will perform routine to moderately difficult design assignments requiring the application of fundamental design techniques in accordance with company and industry standards and codes. Your assignments will regularly include material needs and performing necessary calculations using accepted formulas and references. Regular interface with other departments, clients, vendors and project engineers will be needed to support project production. 

You will also support professional engineering services during construction: construction observation, review of shop drawings, responses to request for information (RFI's) and permit closeouts. You will act as a project resource, completing allocated activities to meet budget, timeframe and quality objectives, meeting or exceeding client expectations. 

You will carry out investigations and analyses to support the development of technical solutions, preparing documentation and reports to ensure accuracy and compliance with Arcadis requirements, and relevant national standards and codes of practice. 

Serving as a liaison for project managers/team leaders, and clients to ensure effective communication on project matters will be a crucial part of your role. Contributing to the resolution of technical issues on projects, and providing technical guidance to other team members will also be important in your position. 

In addition, you will also be expected to:

  • Collaborate with other design disciplines to ensure the integrity of the overall design or solution.
  • Review completed engineering work to ensure it meets specified standards.
  • Further develop understanding of the services delivered by Arcadis, of the client’s business and the industry sector to facilitate personal networking and to develop personal credibility in the industry

Skills and Abilities:

  • Detail oriented with knowledge of relevant national standards and codes of practice,
  • Developing research, data gathering, technical writing and analysis skills,
  • Developing skills including technical and task management,
  •  Work independently.
  • Excellent interpersonal, problem solving, time management and communication skills

Qualifications & Experience:

Required Qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in an appropriate area of engineering,
  • Valid driver's license with the ability to commute to project sites.
  • Minimum 1 year of experience in engineering AND EIT Certification 

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 which is why we take equality and inclusion seriously and hold ourselves to account for our actions. 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 and affirmative action employer. Women, minorities, people with disabilities and veterans are strongly encouraged to apply. 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 15 days PTO that accrue per year. The salary range for this position is $70,000 - $92,000. Actual salaries will vary and are based on several factors, such as experience, education, budget, internal equity, project and location.

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Salary : $70,000 - $92,000

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