BioWorks Energy supports engineers who enjoy a mix of technical design work and real-world field delivery. This onsite role in Grand Blanc, MI is focused on wastewater treatment and renewable energy projects, with responsibilities spanning planning, permitting, construction oversight, startup, and optimization.
This position offers an annual salary range of $70,800 to $98,700, along with benefits including a 401(k), dental insurance, a flexible schedule, and a retirement plan.
What you’ll do
- Participate in the planning and design of municipal, industrial, and decentralized wastewater treatment systems.
- Develop engineering calculations and documentation, including process flow diagrams, hydraulic profiles, and mass balances.
- Evaluate biological treatment approaches such as activated sludge, biological nutrient removal, anaerobic treatment, and advanced treatment technologies.
- Design wastewater collection, pumping, storage, treatment, and effluent disposal systems.
- Develop groundwater discharge, land application, and soil-based wastewater dispersal systems.
- Assess existing treatment facilities and recommend improvements.
- Prepare engineering drawings, specifications, design reports, and construction documents.
- Support design and optimization of anaerobic digestion systems for municipal sludge, industrial wastewater, agricultural residuals, and food processing wastes.
- Perform calculations for organic loading rates, hydraulic retention time, volatile solids destruction, methane generation, and biogas production.
- Design food waste receiving, storage, preprocessing, and co-digestion systems, including biogas collection, conditioning, storage, and utilization equipment.
- Support integration of biogas-fueled CHP into wastewater treatment facilities and develop energy and heat recovery calculations.
- Evaluate nutrient recovery, biosolids processing, and beneficial reuse.
- Oversee construction of wastewater treatment facilities, anaerobic digestion systems, renewable energy facilities, and related infrastructure.
- Represent engineering interests during construction to support compliance with approved plans, specifications, and applicable requirements.
- Coordinate with contractors, subcontractors, equipment suppliers, facility owners, and plant operators, and monitor schedules, progress, workmanship, and compliance.
- Review submittals, shop drawings, RFIs, proposed field modifications, change orders, and payment applications.
- Conduct site visits, construction inspections, and progress meetings; prepare observation reports and punch lists.
- Resolve field engineering issues and coordinate installation of tanks, pumps, piping, process equipment, mechanical and electrical systems, and energy equipment.
- Assist with system testing, startup, commissioning, closeout, and operational troubleshooting.
- Promote safe construction practices and coordinate with contractors on site safety concerns.
- Prepare feasibility studies, preliminary engineering reports, conceptual designs, and technical evaluations.
- Develop equipment sizing calculations, hydraulic analyses, and engineering cost estimates; coordinate civil, mechanical, electrical, and process requirements.
- Assist with equipment selection, procurement, and technical evaluations.
- Prepare and review AutoCAD drawings and construction documents.
- Support project budgeting, construction planning, scheduling, and client coordination.
- Prepare technical documentation supporting wastewater treatment and environmental permits.
- Support permitting with Michigan EGLE and other regulatory agencies, including discharge and construction permit applications.
- Evaluate compliance with environmental regulations, engineering standards, and permit requirements, coordinating with regulatory agencies, facility owners, and project stakeholders.
Required qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Environmental Engineering, Civil Engineering, or a closely related engineering discipline.
- 3 to 7 years of relevant engineering experience, preferably in wastewater treatment, environmental engineering, infrastructure development, or facility construction.
- Understanding of wastewater treatment processes and environmental engineering principles.
- Experience preparing engineering calculations, reports, and design documents.
- Experience with or demonstrated ability to perform construction oversight, field engineering, and contractor coordination.
- Familiarity with AutoCAD or comparable engineering design software.
- Strong analytical, organizational, problem-solving, and communication skills.
- Ability to manage multiple assignments, work collaboratively, and visit active construction sites and operating facilities.
- Valid driver’s license and ability to travel to project sites as needed.
Preferred qualifications
- Master’s degree in Environmental Engineering, Civil Engineering, or a related discipline.
- EIT certification or PE license, or progress toward licensure.
- Experience with municipal or industrial wastewater treatment facility design and construction oversight.
- Knowledge of anaerobic digestion, biogas production, and CHP systems.
- Experience with contractor coordination, equipment installation, commissioning, and operational troubleshooting.
- Experience with process modeling, hydraulic calculations, and mass balance analysis.
- Familiarity with Michigan wastewater treatment and groundwater discharge permitting.
- Proficiency in AutoCAD Civil 3D, Microsoft Excel, or wastewater process modeling software.
Work setup: In person (onsite in Grand Blanc, MI)
Technologies: AutoCAD
Pay: $70,800.00 - $98,700.00 per year
