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Project Engineer - Water and Wastewater

Sanbell
Sacramento, CA Full Time
POSTED ON 3/9/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 6/6/2025

Project Engineer — Water and Wastewater

Roseville, CA

We welcome you to consider Sanbell as the next step in your exciting career as a Project Engineer – Water and Wastewater.

Sanbell is a multi-disciplinary engineering, community planning, and design firm serving clients throughout the Western United States. Built by merging 5 strong firms with similar foundational and cultural values, our team of engineers, planners, landscape architects, surveyors, and designers is now stronger. We are 200 team members strong with 10 office locations in Montana, Colorado, Nevada, and California. By joining the Sanbell team, you will have the opportunity to work and grow alongside a large network of Cool Smart Talented Professionals (CSTP), with a variety of technical expertise, years of experience, and vast knowledge of the engineering industry.

Our team of professionals collaborate on a multitude of diverse and exciting public and private projects. We believe we must think beyond the basic requirements of engineering, beyond our entrenched assumptions, and creatively design practical solutions that work. Because the success of every project affects the entire community. That passion for creative but practical solutions has driven Sanbell to become a regional, award-winning planning, design, and engineering firm.

Sanbell offers competitive compensation, including excellent benefits for retirement, health care, dental, vacation, and holidays (see below for more information).

Job Duties / Responsibilities :

  • Engineering : We are looking for someone with a solid understanding of engineering principles related to water and wastewater utility engineering. The ideal candidate must enjoy solving problems for clients while making the client’s life and job easier. We love to make our clients look good. It’s critical that the professional in this position have a proven record of successful projects involving all aspects of water and wastewater systems as demonstrated by happy, loyal clients. Water and Wastewater Pump Station design experience is required. Water and wastewater treatment design experience is desirable.
  • Project Management : The successful candidate must enjoy working in a team environment – taking direction from a Project Manager and giving direction to Staff Engineers and CAD Designers while working collaboratively and profitably with other Project Engineers. Attention to the details of project scope, schedules, and budgets are critical to the success of this candidate.
  • Marketing : The ability to win work, bring clients, and develop a self-sufficient team is appreciated at all staff levels. All staff should consider themselves an active part of company marketing. However, success at this Project Engineer position will not be dependent on the ability to win new work. The successful Project Engineer will develop respectful professional relationships and will actively network in an effort to lay the groundwork for a future independent professional practice.
  • Mentoring : Mentoring and training of younger engineers, CAD Designers, and Project Assistants must be a passion that can be demonstrated by references and a history of happy coworkers. The ability to recruit former team members to the company is desirable and an indication of past success. As a young company, we will look forward to the opportunity to be influenced by a dedicated professional who enjoys developing young staff by thorough effective and respectful teaching and training.

Minimum Education Requirements :

  • B.S. in Civil Engineering, Water Resources, or a related field from an accredited University
  • Required Qualifications (skills / experience / certifications) :

  • Professional Engineer (PE) License in California or the ability to attain a California Professional Engineering License within 1 year
  • 6 years of professional engineering experience in water and wastewater
  • Preferred Qualifications (skills / experience / certifications) :

  • Working knowledge of CA regulations
  • Existing local relationships
  • Benefits :

  • Employer-Paid Medical Insurance
  • Employer-Paid Dental and Vision Insurance
  • 401(k) with 4% Match
  • Paid Holidays and Generous Paid Time Off (PTO)
  • Employer-Paid Short-Term and Long-Term Disability Insurance
  • Paid Parental Leave Program
  • Health Savings Account (HSA)
  • FSA Dependent Care Plan (Section 129)
  • Reimbursement for Certification and License Expenses
  • Employer-Paid Life Insurance
  • Flexible Work Hours
  • Tuition Assistance
  • Bonus Opportunities
  • And MORE!
  • Compensation :

  • 80,000 - $150,000 per year
  • Work Location : In-person in Roseville, CA

    Job Type : Full-time

    To Apply : Submit your resume in PDF format

    Sanbell is an equal opportunity employer. Sanbell provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws.

    Salary : $80,000 - $150,000

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