project engineer Milwaukee, WI
Job description
The Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District (MMSD) is a regional governmental agency that serves 1.1 million people in the greater Milwaukee area. MMSD provides water reclamation, flood management, and green infrastructure services for our community. Our mission is to protect public health and the environment through world-class, cost-effective water resource management, leadership, and partnership. Join our diverse team and support your community while protecting our environment.
MMSD is seeking qualified candidates for the position of Project Engineer in the Technical Services Division. Reporting to the Manager of Engineering Planning, you will assist in compliance with the Wisconsin Pollution Discharge Elimination System (WPDES) permits by ensuring adherence to MMSD rules. You will also review municipal sanitary sewer design plans, stormwater management plans, and green infrastructure plans to ensure compliance with MMSD rules.
- Perform timely sanitary sewer plan reviews to prevent any negative impact to MMSD facilities in compliance with WPDES permit, Chapters 2, 3, 4, 7, and 13 rules and easement language.
- Perform timely review of stormwater management and green infrastructure plans in compliance with MMSD Chapter 13 rules.
- Review municipal and private development projects that impact MMSD facilities and make recommendations to protect MMSD facilities.
- Assist senior project managers with consultants to ensure conformance with MMSD policies, procedures, standards, and design criteria.
- Work with the quality assurance inspector to address municipal sewer construction issues that arise in the field.
- Review submitted engineering reports and models impacting MMSD facilities for assigned projects and municipal sewer plan submittals.
- Provide ongoing, effective communication with municipalities.
- Complete special projects as assigned.
- Bachelor's degree in civil/environmental engineering or related engineering discipline degree.
- Zero to six months of job-related experience or equivalent combination of experience and education.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Ability to read, interpret, and work with blueprints, record drawings, plans, and specifications.
- Knowledge and ability to apply various standards, codes, and rules.
- Ability to keep accurate records and notes.
- Knowledge of sanitary sewer design, stormwater design, green infrastructure design, and municipal engineering.
- Computer proficiency in Word, Excel, GIS software, and scheduling software.
Work environment: While performing the duties of this job, the employee works in an office environment 90% of the time and is exposed to outside weather conditions 10% of the time. Employee may be exposed to extreme temperatures, wet and/or humid conditions, toxic or caustic chemicals, noise, fumes, and risk of electrical shock.
Requires the use of safety glasses and safety shoes, hard hat, coveralls, hearing protection, rain suits, gas detector and self-rescue as dictated by the location work is being performed.
MMSD is committed to equal employment opportunity and to nondiscrimination in all aspects of the employment relationship.
The District is a qualified employer for the Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program.
