What are the responsibilities and job description for the Chemical/Water Treatment Engineer (Full-Time) - Special Projects Department position at The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints?
Job Description
The Special Projects Department is a leader in property management and sustainability, committed to maintaining high-performance building systems and ensuring environmental compliance. We are seeking a Chemical Engineer with expertise in water treatment and property finishes to join our dynamic team. The ideal candidate will leverage their chemical engineering knowledge to ensure efficient water systems, optimize building surfaces, and contribute to the longevity and sustainability of our property portfolio. worldwide.
Water Treatment Systems
QUALIFICATIONS
Church employees find joy and satisfaction in using their unique talents and abilities to further the Lord’s work. From the IT professional who develops an app that sends the gospel message worldwide, to the facilities manager who maintains our buildings— giving Church members places to worship, teach, learn, and receive sacred ordinances—our employees seek innovative ways to share the gospel of Jesus Christ with the world. They are literally working in His kingdom.
Only members of the Church who are worthy of a temple recommend qualify for employment. Apart from this, the Church is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate in its employment decisions on any basis that would violate U.S. or local law.
Qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, national origin, color, gender, pregnancy, marital status, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, or other legally protected categories that apply to the Church. The Church will make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with known disabilities.
The Special Projects Department is a leader in property management and sustainability, committed to maintaining high-performance building systems and ensuring environmental compliance. We are seeking a Chemical Engineer with expertise in water treatment and property finishes to join our dynamic team. The ideal candidate will leverage their chemical engineering knowledge to ensure efficient water systems, optimize building surfaces, and contribute to the longevity and sustainability of our property portfolio. worldwide.
- This role is critical providing consultation and supporting the water treatment processes and enhancing the durability and performance of building finishes across multiple properties. This position is responsible for ensuring water systems meet regulatory standards and implementing innovative surface treatment technologies and operational efficiency.
- This role supports the Mission of the Church to bring members closer to the Lord through building and maintaining temples in a simple and optimal way across the world.
Water Treatment Systems
- Program Standards: Advance standards that optimize water treatment systems, including filtration, disinfection, desalination, and wastewater treatment, ensuring the delivery of quality water to building systems
- Sewage & Wastewater Management: Evaluate the treatment and safe discharge of wastewater, ensuring compliance with environmental regulations
- Cooling Towers & HVAC Systems: Advance water treatment standards for cooling towers and HVAC systems, preventing scale, corrosion, and biological growth to optimize operation.
- Chemical Treatment & Corrosion Control: Implement and advance chemical treatment plans to prevent corrosion and scaling in baptistry fonts, pipes, boilers, and other water systems, ensuring long-term operational efficiency.
- Legionella Control: Develop disinfection and risk management strategies for controlling Legionella and other pathogens in water systems, ensuring health and safety standards are met.
- Health & Safety Standards: Support the advancement of safety protocols for handling water treatment chemicals and surface materials, ensuring proper storage, use, and disposal.
- Project Support: Support projects related to water treatment upgrades and surface finishes.
- Vendor Support: Research locally sourced quality water treatment systems ensuring the best value and performance.
- Maintenance & Monitoring: Advance preventative and predictive maintenance protocols for water treatment systems and finishes.
QUALIFICATIONS
- Bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering, Environmental Engineering, or a related field
- Minimum of 7 years of experience in water treatment, coatings, and surface finishes, particularly in a property management or construction context.
- Strong knowledge of water chemistry, filtration, disinfection methods, wastewater management, and advanced coating technologies.
- Familiarity with environmental regulations, water treatment certifications, and safety standards.
- Experience leading cross-functional teams and supporting teams.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively across engineering, maintenance, and property management teams.
- Must be able to perform innovative and forward thinking global engineering, design projects of medium complexity, project cost estimates, meet aggressive schedules and budgets, troubleshoot, track performance, interpret project contracts and consult accordingly, establish vendor relationships, communicate effectively with leaders, managers, clients and consultants using tools such as: Microsoft Office, Revit/CAD systems, Bluebeam, Autodesk Construction Cloud, document transfer and management systems, online conferencing and cloud based storage servers
Church employees find joy and satisfaction in using their unique talents and abilities to further the Lord’s work. From the IT professional who develops an app that sends the gospel message worldwide, to the facilities manager who maintains our buildings— giving Church members places to worship, teach, learn, and receive sacred ordinances—our employees seek innovative ways to share the gospel of Jesus Christ with the world. They are literally working in His kingdom.
Only members of the Church who are worthy of a temple recommend qualify for employment. Apart from this, the Church is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate in its employment decisions on any basis that would violate U.S. or local law.
Qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, national origin, color, gender, pregnancy, marital status, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, or other legally protected categories that apply to the Church. The Church will make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with known disabilities.
