Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets.

We are more than 36,000 people, in over 70 countries, dedicated to improving quality of life. Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds, together we can solve the world’s most complex challenges and deliver more impact together.

Role accountabilities:

The Senior Operation Specialist will work as an integral part of project teams during planning and design of plant expansions and upgrades to provide operations insight and team guidance. You will conduct commissioning and startup planning and develop and lead training of client O&M staff, in addition to developing O&M manuals; traditional and electronic.

Staffing: You will be expected to conduct staffing assessments and identify and recruit additional operations experts to help build an existing team of part-time O&M professionals. This team will support O&M assignments across the country. 

Leadership: In this role you will provide assist public utilities with facility and system compliance assessments, management training or oversight, strategy development, public relations and elected official communications. Part of this role will include working with the national asset management team to plan and deliver asset management solutions.

Client Responsibilities: You will work directly with clients to determine capital improvement needs by leveraging experience to provide real world practical knowledge of facility maintenance. In this role you will work with client development professionals, account leaders and technical staff to strategize and position for new work opportunities. 

Technical Skills: You will be expected to conduct as-need process/operations troubleshooting work, as well as field observations and conditions assessments. 

Qualifications & Experience:

Required Qualifications

Associates degree in engineering or related field.  Prior Public Utility leadership or management experience. 15+ years of municipal water and/or wastewater experience with water or wastewater operator certification. Asset management or RCM training and experience. Experience involving inspections, surveys or data collection for water, sewer or similar infrastructure.  Open to travel for client assignments as required. 

Preferred Qualifications

Advanced training including BA, BS or specialty training in related fields. Emergency response training or experience. Energy management training. Diversity training.

Why Arcadis?

We can only achieve our goals when everyone is empowered to be their best. We believe everyone's contribution matters. It’s why we are pioneering a skills-based approach, where you can harness your unique experience and expertise to carve your career path and maximize the impact we can make together.

You’ll do meaningful work, and no matter what role, you’ll be helping to deliver sustainable solutions for a more prosperous planet. Make your mark, on your career, your colleagues, your clients, your life and the world around you.

Together, we can create a lasting legacy.

Join Arcadis. Create a Legacy.

Our Commitment to Equality, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging

We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day which is why we take equality and inclusion seriously and hold ourselves to account for our actions. Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people. We are an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. Women, minorities, people with disabilities and veterans are strongly encouraged to apply. We are dedicated to a policy of non-discrimination in employment on any basis including race, creed, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, citizenship status, disability, veteran status, or any other basis prohibited by law.

Arcadis offers benefits for part-time, as-needed positions. These benefits include EAP, 401K, and optional well-being benefits. The salary range for this position is $60-90$/HR

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