Project Engineer

Salary: $76,585.60 - $88,067.20 Annually
Location : Milwaukee, WI
Job Type: Full Time
Remote Employment: Flexible/Hybrid
Job Number: 2025-00021
Department: Planning
Opening Date: 04/03/2025
Closing Date: 4/24/2025 11:59 PM Central

Description
The Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District (MMSD) is a regional governmental agency that serves 1.1 million people in the greater Milwaukee area. MMSD provides water reclamation, flood management, and green infrastructure services for our community. Our mission is to protect public health and the environment through world-class, cost-effective water resource management, leadership, and partnership. Join our diverse team and support your community while protecting our environment.

MMSD is seeking qualified candidates for the position of Project Engineer in the Technical Services Division. Reporting to the Engineering Planning Manager, you will assist in compliance with the Wisconsin Pollution Discharge Elimination System (WPDES) permits by ensuring adherence to MMSD rules. You will also review municipal sanitary sewer design plans, stormwater management plans, and green infrastructure plans to ensure compliance with MMSD rules.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Perform timely sanitary sewer plan reviews to prevent any negative impact to MMSD facilities in compliance with WPDES permit, MMSD Chapters 2, 3, 4, 7, and 13 rules, and easement language.
• Perform timely review of stormwater management and green infrastructure plans in compliance with MMSD Chapter 13 rules.
• Review municipal and private development projects that impact MMSD facilities and make recommendations to protect MMSD facilities.
• Assist senior project managers with consultants to ensure conformance with MMSD policies, procedures, standards, and design criteria.
• Work with the quality assurance inspector to address municipal sewer construction issues that arise in the field.
• Review submitted engineering reports and models impacting MMSD facilities for assigned projects and municipal sewer plan submittals.
• Provide ongoing, effective communication with municipalities.
• Complete special projects as assigned.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in civil/environmental engineering or a related engineering discipline degree.
• One year of job-related experience or equivalent combination of experience and education.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to read, interpret, and work with blueprints, record drawings, plans, and specifications.
• Knowledge and ability to apply various standards, codes, and rules.
• Ability to keep accurate records and notes.
• Knowledge of sanitary sewer design, stormwater design, green infrastructure design, and municipal engineering.
• Computer proficiency in Word, Excel, GIS software, stormwater modeling software, and scheduling software.
• Valid driver's license and a good driving record at time of application, during selection process, and throughout employment.

Supplemental Information

Physical Requirements:

• This work requires the occasional exertion of up to 50 lbs. of force.
• Work regularly requires speaking or hearing; frequently requires using hands; occasionally requires standing, walking, sitting, climbing or balancing, kneeling or crawling, reaching with hands and arms, and pushing or pulling.

Sensory Requirements:

• Work has standard vision requirements. Vocal communication is required for conveying detailed or important instructions to others accurately, loudly, or quickly. Hearing is required to receive detailed information through oral communication and/or to make fine distinctions in sound.
• Work requires preparing and analyzing written or computer data, visual inspection involving small defects and/or small parts, use of measuring devices, operating motor vehicles, and observing general surroundings and activities.

Environmental Exposures:

• Work occasionally requires exposure to fumes or airborne particles, exposure to wet/humid conditions (non-weather), working near mechanical parts, working in high/precarious places, exposure to toxic or caustic chemicals, exposure to outdoor weather conditions, exposure to heat (non-weather), and exposure to the risk of electrical shock.
• Work is occasionally in a loud noise location.

Requires the use of safety glasses and shoes, hardhat, hearing protection, coveralls, hearing protection, rain suits, gas detector, and self-rescuer as dictated by the location and type of work being performed.

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of this job.
MMSD is an equal opportunity employer who values belonging. Women, people of color, immigrants, LGBTQ+, veterans, and individuals living with disabilities are encouraged to apply. We are committed to being equitable and fair in providing access to opportunities for all!
MMSD is a qualified employer for the Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program
SUMMARY OF MMSD EMPLOYEE BENEFITS
MMSD provides a competitive benefits package for employees, based on Commission Policy, that include the following:

• Annual vacation: Earn three to five weeks of vacation based on years of service
• Personal Days: Earn four personal days annually.
• Sick Leave: Earn 10 days annually.
• Holidays: 10 days annually.
• Insurance Benefits: Health, dental, vision, life, short-term disability, and long-term disability insurance benefits as well as an employee assistance program and flexible spending accounts. Some employee contributions may be required to participate in these benefits.
• Retirement Benefit: Participation in the Wisconsin Retirement System (among the best funded and best managed public pension systems in the country), which requires an employee contribution.
  • Voluntary Retirement Benefit: Choice of three 457(b) deferred compensation plans, which requires an employee contribution.
• Paid Parental Leave: Employees meeting the eligibility requirements under the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) will receive a maximum of six weeks (240 hours) of paid parental leave for the birth, adoption, or placement of a child or children.
• Educational Reimbursement Program: Employees are eligible for tuition reimbursement up to $5,000 annually based on degree level being pursued.
• Wages: Employees are paid biweekly.
• Parking: Free parking in MMSD's lot.

01

Do you have a valid driver's license?

• Yes
• No

02

Please identify the level of expertise you demonstrate in Microsoft Excel.

• None
• Beginner
• Intermediate
• Advanced

03

Please identify the level of expertise you demonstrate using Microsoft Word.

• None
• Beginner
• Intermediate
• Advanced

04

Describe your experience with blueprints, specifications, and plans.
05

Briefly describe your communication style.
06

Describe any experience you have with sanitary sewer, stormwater, or green infrastructure design.
Required Question