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Located just minutes from anywhere in the Tri-Cities, Veolia offers a flexible and balanced schedule and is seeking talented, driven individuals that want to be part of a team, learn from industry experts, and support our clients’ projects.\nThe Senior Mechanical Engineer is an experienced engineer responsible for independently leading engineering assignments and providing technical leadership in support of engineering projects. They are expected to apply advanced engineering knowledge to solve complex technical challenges, coordinate multidisciplinary engineering efforts, mentor junior engineers, and serve as a technical resource to project teams, clients, and management. They are also expected to develop, evaluate, select, teach, and apply standard techniques, procedures, and criteria to perform a task or sequence of tasks for conventional projects with some complex features. The Senior Engineer has acquired a broad general knowledge of principles and practices of related fields and must work and lead collaborative multidisciplinary teams. He or she will work on a major project or several projects of moderate scope with complex features.\nThe Senior Engineer understands professional and ethical responsibilities.\nResponsibilities\nContinuously develop technical knowledge and engineering competencies in specific knowledge areas.\nPrepares/Assists proposals that provide engineering services for engineering projects or programs.\nLead/Support the planning, design, and execution of engineering projects.\nLead/Support project schedules, adherence to project budgets, and communicate progress to supervisors.\nProvide technical leadership during project planning, scope development, scheduling, and estimating activities.\nPrepare, review, approve, and ensure the technical quality of designs, drawings, calculations, computation methods, specifications, reports, and other project deliverables in their engineering discipline.\nEvaluate vendor proposals and review vendor drawings, calculations, and technical submittals for compliance with project requirements.\nEnsure work complies with applicable codes, regulations, client requirements, and company quality standards.\nProvides engineering support for testing and/or construction.\nPerform field inspections, testing, commissioning, or site visits.\nResearch, investigate, collect, organize, and analyze engineering data.\nDesigns and conducts experiments and analyzes and interprets data.\nIdentify technical issues and develop practical engineering solutions while elevating complex matters as appropriate and supporting troubleshooting and resolution of the issue.\nDrive improvements to engineering standards, design practices, and work processes to enhance quality and efficiency.\nMentor Engineering staff by providing technical guidance, coaching, and development opportunities.\nPromote a culture of safety, quality, collaboration, and continuous improvement.\nAccountabilities:\nFor Engineering Staff to:Lead other members of design team to complete all required project documents\nAssigns tasks to and coordinates work with entry-level engineers\nAssist in determining schedule and budget requirements\nReceive a thorough review of completed work for application of sound professional judgment \nPossess effective oral and written communication skills\n\nTo Manager and or PM of Engineering for:Understand instruction on specific project objectives; 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