Senior Environmental Engineer
Full-Time | Hybrid | Bellevue or Seattle, WA | Base Salary: $160,000–$200,000

Take on the hard cleanups. Earn the client’s trust. Grow with a firm you own.

If you’re a licensed engineer who likes the tough sites, the ones with complicated contamination, close regulatory review and real stakes for the community, this role puts you right in the middle of that work. It’s a senior position where you’ll be seen, and your judgment will shape outcomes.

Our client is a 100% employee-owned environmental consulting firm. Clients bring them their hardest problems, from high-stakes remediation to regulatory negotiations that affect whole communities. Their scientists and engineers are known for solutions that are technically sound, defensible and practical.

You’ll work with leaders who are shaping the industry across the West Coast. Your expertise will affect project results, client relationships and the firm’s growth.

This role suits someone who likes solving difficult problems, enjoys building client relationships, and wants to raise the level of engineering across a team.

What You’ll Get Out of This Role

• Real influence: You’ll be the trusted advisor on cleanup strategy, from the conceptual site model to closure. Clients and regulators will see your work.
• True ownership: As an employee-owner in the firm’s ESOP, you share directly in the business you’re helping to grow.
• Room to build: You’ll originate clients, open new practice areas and mentor the next generation of engineers and scientists.

What You’ll Be Doing

• You’ll originate and grow client relationships, find new opportunities across the firm’s core practice areas, and support business development across the firm.
• You’ll develop cleanup strategies based on strong conceptual site models and regulatory insight. You’ll also prepare and oversee feasibility studies, pilot tests, remedial system designs, bid specifications and engineering drawings.
• You’ll lead multidisciplinary teams through site assessment, investigation, remedy selection, construction and closure, managing scope, budget, schedule and quality across several complex projects.
• You’ll make sure key deliverables meet a high technical bar, including RI/FS reports, Cleanup Action Plans, Engineering Design Reports, Cleanup Action Reports and remedial cost estimates for every stage of a project.

What Makes You a Strong Fit

• You’ve designed and built remediation systems, not just studied them, and you can explain the reasons behind your remedy choices to clients and regulators.
• You likely have a portfolio of MTCA and VCP cleanups, and you’re comfortable with Local, State and Federal regulators.
• You enjoy coaching staff engineers and scientists and building a culture of safety, quality and continuous improvement.
• Most importantly, you think like an owner: you see the client relationship, the business opportunity and the technical answer as one job.

Qualifications

• ABET-accredited BS or MS in civil or environmental engineering
• Professional Engineer (PE) license in Washington
• 10+ years of environmental consulting experience, including investigation, remediation system design and implementation
• Strong design skills across multiple contaminants and remedial technologies (air sparge, SVE, MPE, in-situ treatment, excavation, engineering controls)
• Experience developing cleanup strategies and cost estimates
• Working knowledge of MTCA, RCRA, CERCLA and related regulatory guidance
• Experience with VCP cleanups
• Permitting experience (PSCAA, CSGP, NPDES, local jurisdictions)
• Proven ability to manage multidisciplinary teams and complex projects
• Strong writing and speaking skills, including proposals and technical reports
• Experience developing new clients or practice areas
• Familiarity with GIS, data management and analytical methods is a plus
• Experience with PFAS, air compliance, sediment remediation or stormwater permitting is a plus
• Knowledge of SPCC, SWPPP, Industrial Stormwater Permits or Sand & Gravel Permits is a plus

Compensation & Benefits

• Base salary of $160,000–$200,000, depending on experience, education and internal equity (ranges are reviewed every year)
• Annual cash bonus based on firm and individual performance
• Ownership through the Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP)
• 100% employer-paid medical, dental and vision premiums for employees
• 401(k) with up to a 4% company match
• Flexible vacation (10–30 days), 9 paid holidays and a paid volunteer day
• Tuition reimbursement and paid renewals for professional certifications
• Additional benefits may include life, AD&D and disability coverage, parental leave, an employee assistance program, spot bonuses, charitable donation matching, paid parking or transit, and a one-time home office setup reimbursement

Work Environment
This is a full-time, exempt, hybrid role based in either the Seattle or Bellevue office. You’ll split your time between the office, project sites and remote work.

The culture is collaborative and works across disciplines. Senior engineers are expected to lead, mentor, and help shape where the practice goes next.

Let’s Talk
If you want a role where your technical depth, client relationships and leadership all count, and where you own a share of the firm you’re building, this could be the right next step. Reach out for a confidential conversation about what you’re looking for.