Wastewater Civil Engineer

Responsibilities

• Serve as a subject matter expert on how civil engineering firms deliver wastewater collection system services to cities, utilities, and public agencies.
• Translate consulting engineering workflows into clear product requirements, user stories, review criteria, decision logic, templates, and quality standards.
• Partner with product, engineering, customer success, and implementation teams to build tools that support municipal sewer planning, inspection review, rehabilitation recommendations, cleaning plans, and capital project development.
• Represent the practical needs of consulting engineers and municipal clients, including scope definition, deliverable quality, defensible recommendations, project budgets, schedules, client communication, and public-agency procurement constraints.
• Evaluate wastewater collection system assets including gravity mains, force mains, manholes, life stations, laterals, and related appurtenances using CCTV, manhole inspections, field investigations, GIS, CMMS/EAMS records, hydraulic data, and maintenance history.
• Develop and maintain risk-based prioritization frameworks using condition, consequence of failure, criticality, SSO history, capacity constraints, defect severity, maintenance frequency, service impact, lifecycle cost, and constructibility.
• Review inspection videos, defect codes, PACP/MACP/LACP data, work orders, cleaning records, and field notes to identify actionable repair, rehabilitation, replacement, and maintenance needs.
• Recommend appropriate rehabilitation and renewal methods such as CIPP, pipe bursting, slip lining, point repairs, open-cut replacement, manhole rehabilitation, root control, grouting, bypass planning, and targeted reinspection.
• Build inspection plans and schedules for CCTV, manhole inspections, smoke testing, dye testing, flow monitoring, and other condition-assessment activities based on risk, age, material, service history, and regulatory or operational needs.
• Build cleaning plans and preventive maintenance programs that prioritize high-risk assets, recurring blockage areas, grease/root/debris issues, siphons, critical crossings, and known SSO risk locations.
• Convert condition and risk findings into scopes of work, project definitions, budget estimates, schedules, bid packages, technical memoranda, engineering reports, CIP inputs, and management recommendations.
• Coordinate field investigations, inspection quality control, cleaning verification, data reconciliation, and integration of inspection results into GIS and asset-management systems.
• Manage wastewater rehabilitation and maintenance projects from planning through design, procurement, construction, inspection, closeout, documentation, and performance tracking.
• Review engineering plans, specifications, submittals, reports, CCTV deliverables, inspection logs, pay applications, change orders, and contractor work for technical quality and compliance.
• Coordinate with operations and maintenance teams to align engineering recommendations with crew capacity, equipment availability, safety requirements, access constraints, emergency response needs, and customer impacts.
• Support regulatory compliance, sanitary sewer overflow documentation, root-cause analysis, corrective-action planning, and reporting to internal and external stakeholders.

Additional Information

About SewerAI Corporation SewerAI is transforming underground infrastructure management through AI-powered inspection and risk analysis. Our platform helps contractors, engineering firms, and utilities unlock valuable insights from sewer inspection data-turning hours of manual video review into actionable intelligence in minutes. After doubling our customer base over the past year, we're now entering an exciting phase of accelerated growth. Role Summary SewerAI is reimagining how civil engineering services are delivered by engineers and engineering firms to cities, utilities, and public agencies. We are seeking a Wastewater Civil Engineer who has delivered municipal wastewater engineering services and wants to help build the tools, workflows, and technical standards that make that work faster, more consistent, and more defensible. This role will help translate real civil engineering practice into product capabilities for condition assessment, risk prioritization, rehabilitation recommendations, inspection planning, cleaning planning, capital planning, and project execution. The ideal candidate has worked at a civil engineering firm or consulting practice delivering sewer collection system projects to cities and understands both the technical work and the client-service expectations behind it. You should be comfortable moving between engineering judgment, municipal client needs, field realities, software workflows, data quality, and product requirements. This is not a traditional design- only role; it is a role for an engineer who can help SewerAI encode how high-quality wastewater engineering services should be delivered at scale.

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