Senior Process Engineer, Industrial Wastewater O&M | Central Texas
About the Role
A global engineering and O&M company is hiring a Senior Process Engineer to own process performance at a large new industrial wastewater treatment and water reuse plant in Central Texas. You will run the plant's process on live data: set points, chemistry, mass balance and troubleshooting across physicochemical, biological, membrane and thermal zero liquid discharge (ZLD) stages. This is an operations seat, in the plant with the operators. It is not a design role.
What You'll Do
- Optimize process parameters and set points across the full treatment train through SCADA/HMI: chemical precipitation, ozone AOP, ammonia stripping, MBR, RO reuse and ZLD evaporation and crystallization
- Lead the technical review of process changes (management of change)
- Run jar testing and set chemical dosing protocols to optimize chemical use
- Maintain and audit the whole-plant mass balance and close the gap between design and actual operation
- Lead root cause analysis on water quality deviations, membrane fouling, evaporator scaling and process upsets; raise maintenance work through the CMMS
- Plan cleaning, regeneration and media, filter and resin replacement from performance data
- Write and update SOPs, technical manuals and water quality emergency response procedures; train shift operators
- Give clear control settings to the Operation Manager and work with PLC engineers on control logic changes
What You Bring
- Bachelor's degree in chemical or environmental engineering, chemistry, biology or a related field
- 3 to 5+ years hands-on as a process engineer, performance engineer or operations specialist at an industrial wastewater or advanced water treatment facility
- 3+ years tuning complex industrial wastewater streams such as heavy metals, fluoride, organics or TMAH
- Hands-on management of operating parameters for thermal evaporators (MVR/TVR) and crystallizers
- Data-driven troubleshooting with SCADA and trend data, with a record of reducing operating costs
- TCEQ Class B wastewater license or higher
Preferred
- Semiconductor wastewater treatment or reuse commissioning and operations
- Process design experience: PFDs, P&IDs and calculation sheets
- Operations experience with a global water O&M or water technology company
- PE license; WEF or AWWA certifications