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Environmental Engineer

Civil & Environmental Consultants, Inc.
Knoxville, TN Full Time
POSTED ON 4/14/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 5/8/2026
As an Environmental Engineer with Civil & Environmental Consultants, Inc. (CEC) in our Knoxville, TN office, you'll be involved with environmental projects and provide client-focused customer service in the manufacturing, energy, mining, and real-estate markets. You'll perform project tasks such as environmental permitting and compliance, data management, reporting, environmental site assessments, remedial investigations.

This position will include field work primarily consisting of monitoring well and soil boring installation, lithology characterization, soil, sediment, groundwater, and stormwater sample collection, hydrogeologic data acquisition, remedial implementation oversight, and compliance auditing. You'll interact with clients, contractors, and local government officials from the site assessment, remedial investigation, and design phases through client procurement and remedial implementation. Limited travel (upwards of 1 week per month) including overnight will be required.

  • Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Civil, Environmental, or Chemical Engineering
  • 0 years of environmental consulting related experience
  • Engineering in Training (EIT), Fundamentals of Engineering (FE)
  • Proficiency with AutoCAD/Civil 3D, ArcGIS, and/or HEC-RAS or other computer modeling software
  • Experience using Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, Project) is preferred
  • Solid organizational and time management skills
  • Effective verbal and written communication abilities
  • 40-hour HAZWOPER and refresher training (as applicable) is a plus
  • Air quality permitting and compliance experience, preferred
  • Experience with emission inventory calculations, air permit application preparation, and pollution control technologies, preferred
  • Experience with due diligence, compliance and permitting, site assessments (Phase I and II), and subsurface investigations, preferred


We have experts! CEC is consistently ranked as a Top 500 Design Firm and Top 200 Environmental Firm by Engineering News-Record. We are looking for people who enjoy using their education and experience to solve difficult technical problems and work on interesting projects. You can accomplish this while working with a team of professionals who are equally motivated to provide high levels of service to our clients and to teach you along the way.

We have support! We have a variety of Employee Resource Groups, including CEC Community - focused on giving back to the communities in which we work; CEC Ignite - focused on helping professionals early in their careers to develop their pathway; CEC iDEA - focused on inclusion, diversity, equality, and acceptance; and CEC Women - focused on creating internal and external opportunities for women to network and leverage professional experience!

We care about our people! People and Culture are two of the five elements of our strategic plan. When you care about your people, they will want to grow a career with you - that is our goal. CEC offers you a small-firm work environment with large-firm opportunities. Not only will we help you develop professionally, but we will also provide an opportunity to become an owner of the firm and share in its success.

CEC offers a matching 401(k); profit sharing; a performance bonus; company stock; medical, dental, and vision insurance; short and long-term disability; tuition assistance; professional development; and work-life balance.

CEC is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate in recruiting, hiring or promotion based on race, color, religion, sex (including sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, transgender status), national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status or any other basis or characteristic prohibited by applicable federal, state, or local law.

THIRD PARTY RECRUITERS

If CEC has not expressly requested recruiting services or contractually engaged with you for recruiting services on a specific position, any resumes or candidate profiles sent to CEC shall be considered unsolicited. Therefore, any such submissions will be considered property of CEC, with no associated fees due to your firm.

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