Engineer Senior

Date Opened: Monday, June 01, 2026 12:00 AM

Close Date: Monday, June 15, 2026 12:00 AM

Department: Charlotte Water Department

Salary: $87,368.00 - $109,210.00 Commensurate with Experience

Welcome to the City of Charlotte

Charlotte is America’s Queen City, opening her arms to a diverse and inclusive community of residents, businesses and visitors alike. Here you will find a safe, family-oriented city where people work together to help everyone thrive. The mission of the City of Charlotte is to deliver quality public services and promote the safety, health, and quality of life for all residents.

Our guiding principles include:

• Attracting and retaining a skilled and diverse workforce

• Valuing teamwork, openness, accountability, productivity, and employee development

• Providing all customers with courteous, responsive, accessible, and seamless quality services

• Taking initiative to identify, analyze, and solve problems

• Collaborating with stakeholders to make informed decisions

SUMMARY

Charlotte’s local government, with more than 9,000 employees and a total budget of $3.65 billion budget, works hard to ensure that the community will be a winning city for everyone – a truly remarkable place to live, work, learn and play.

Charlotte Water is an enterprise department of the City of Charlotte and one of the largest public water and sewer service providers in the southeast with over 330,000 customer accounts and over 1100 employees. Our service area includes the City of Charlotte, Mecklenburg County and the towns of Huntersville, Cornelius, Davidson, Mint Hill, Matthews and Pineville. Charlotte Water’s FY 26 budget is $651 million and a five-year capital program of $2.2.28 billion. We enjoy the highest credit ratings from Moody’s and S&P Global as a result of sound financial planning and management and strong support from our City Council. We value competent, skilled candidates with a customer service focus to work in a team environment.

SALARY:

The salary for this position is: $98,289.00 - $109,209.99, Commensurate with Experience.

JOB SUMMARY

This position provides a high degree of internal/external consulting for Charlotte Water projects and operations as a subject-matter expert in Field Operations.  Assists operational staff with complex repairs, sanitary sewer overflow reduction efforts, and other technical challenges. This position is responsible for conducting system analysis of the collection and water distribution systems and developing recommendations to improve performance and efficiency. The role includes managing contracts related to system analysis initiatives and infrastructure improvement projects, ensuring work is completed on time, within scope, and in compliance with applicable standards. Work involves some project management functions with emphasis on providing guidance and support to projects in planning, design, and regulatory oversight.  This position provides technical assistance and serves as a lead or supervisor over technical and administrative staff as well. 

ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS:        

• Provides professional and technical instruction, guidance, and information to consultants, contractors, engineers, City officials, and the public regarding planning, design, regulatory issues, engineering principles, and standard practices; serves as subject matter expert.
• Leads and mentors engineering and technical staff; supervises the work of professional, technical, and administrative staff; manages a Critical Assets Inspection team and asset management program; manages and maintains Smart Cover manhole program; assists operations staff with complex water and sewer repairs;
• Provides technical expertise in the development and implementation of policy and standards regarding engineering principles and practices for public and private development within the City.
• Develops and maintains list of potential infrastructure projects for a program or division; analyzes and prioritizes projects for maximum impact and return on investment.
• Designs engineering specifications for projects.
• Identifies project resources and estimates project costs.
• Reviews work of architects, engineers, and other project service providers; makes design modifications; ensures regulatory compliance; and approves project design.
• Communicates among owners, public, project managers, contractors, and other interested parties in order to obtain input, provide feedback, exchange information, and report project status; attends/facilitates public meetings on projects; and addresses related concerns of home owners.
• Performs administrative tasks, such as: approving contracts, invoices, or payments; addressing billing problems; and handling human resource (HR) issues and paperwork.
• Provides technical and professional assistance during projects, such as:  sewer overflow reduction; water distribution/transmission improvement; sewer emergency repairs; sewer size and flow evaluations; development of new inventory systems;
• Plans and handles special projects.
• Serves on assigned committees and boards.
• Performs other related job duties as assigned.

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS TO PERFORM WORK:

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering from an accredited school.
• Five (5) years of related work experience in design, technical, and/or planning work preferably in civil engineering or municipal capital improvement projects including two (2) years of supervision or performing as a mentor/team leader for other engineering staff.
• Must obtain a Sewer Collections System Grade IV Operator’s Certification and a Water Distribution System Grade A Operator’s Certification with three (3) years of hire.

Licenses, Certifications or Registrations:

• Requires a valid driver’s license.
• Must obtain and maintain a City Driver’s Permit.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Knowledge of principles and concepts in area of professional specialization.
• Skill in communication, both verbally and in writing.
• Skill in producing technical reports.
• Ability to apply and direct change control principles to project planning and implementation.
• Ability to apply fundamental and advance engineering principles to project design, contract management.
• Ability to work cooperatively with other city employees and the public.
• Ability to apply conflict resolution techniques.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS:

The work is light work and requires applying 10 pounds of force frequently exerting up to 20 pounds of force occasionally to move objects. Additionally, the following physical abilities are required: feeling, perceiving sounds at normal speaking levels, discriminating among sounds, mental acuity, speaking, standing, talking, visual acuity in data/color/observations/equipment/ inspections, and walking.

WORK ENVIRONMENT:     

Work is performed in a dynamic environment that requires sensitivity to change and responsiveness to changing goals, priorities, and needs. Requires occasional on-call emergency work.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:

This job description is not intended to be and should not be construed as an inclusive list of all the responsibilities, skills, or working conditions associated with the position. While it is intended to accurately reflect the position activities and requirements, management reserves the right to modify, add or remove duties and assign other duties at any time.  This job description does not constitute a written or implied contract of employment.

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform the essential job functions satisfactorily. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the primary job functions herein described. Since every duty associated with this position may not be described herein, employees may be required to perform duties not specifically spelled out in the job description, but which may be reasonably considered to be incidental in the performing of their duties just as though they were written out in this job description.

CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT

The City’s Background Check Policy requires background checks to be conducted on final internal or external candidate(s) applying for any position with the City of Charlotte. The type of information that will be collected as part of a background check includes, but is not limited to: reference checks, social security verification, education verification, criminal conviction record check, and, if applicable, a credit history check, sex offender registry and motor vehicle records check.

Background checks must be in compliance with all federal and state statutes, such as the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA). The checks must be consistent with the guidelines set forth by these laws requiring organizations to obtain a candidate’s written authorization before obtaining a criminal background report, motor vehicle records check or credit report; and to properly store and dispose of information derived from such reports.

Final candidates must pass a pre-employment drug-screening test and physical examination. During the selection process, candidates may be asked to take a skills test, and/or participate in other assessments.

The City of Charlotte is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not unlawfully discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, national origin, marital status, age, disability, sexual orientation, political affiliation or on the basis of actual or perceived gender as expressed through dress, appearance, or behavior.

Our culture is to serve the community honorably.

HOW TO APPLY

Apply online.

Federal law requires employers to provide reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities. Please tell us if you require a reasonable accommodation to apply for a job.

You are welcome to visit the City of Charlotte Human Resources Department lobby, where self-service application kiosks are available. They are located in our office at 700 East 4th Street, Suite 200, Charlotte, NC 28202. We are open Monday through Friday, from 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. (EST), excluding official City holidays.

For questions about your application or the hiring process, please email Careers@ci.charlotte.nc.us

The City of Charlotte is committed to making our services and programs accessible to all. Upon request, auxiliary aids, written materials in alternate formats, language access, and other reasonable accommodations or modifications will be provided. To make a request, please fill out the Innovation & Technology ADA request form or call 704.336.4120.

BENEEFITS

The City of Charlotte provides a comprehensive benefits package to eligible employees.

Click here to learn more about the City of Charlotte’s benefits.

The City of Charlotte is a drug and alcohol-free workplace.