Tactical Project Support

Join a nationally significant recovery effort advancing a resilient, healthy Maui community. This role supports postdisaster rebuilding by aligning water, reuse, wastewater, stormwater, watershed, and cultural and historic resource outcomes under a unified One Water approach. You will serve as part of a multidisciplinary team, translating complex recovery challenges into actionable strategies through effective facilitation, engagement, and crossagency coordination that directly supports community rebuilding and longterm sustainability.

Working alongside County leadership and partners, you will help advance standardized recovery operations, governance, and engagement practices that promote transparency, informed decisionmaking, and delivery of resilient infrastructure. This work supports Maui’s longterm recovery and climate resilience goals while ensuring that rebuilding efforts strengthen essential systems and community outcomes.

Job Summary

The TC1, Environmental Engineering role will support a broad range of tasks related to the analysis, planning, and development of solutions that promote environmental protection, water use sustainability, and responsible water resource management. Working under the close supervision of a professional engineer, this role will contribute to technical work that improves environmental and public health outcomes across natural and engineered systems. This engineering position will address environmental and public health protection, mitigation and prevention degradation of water, soils, air quality, and habitats. This role may work in one or more diverse areas including water and wastewater treatment and conveyance, stormwater management, solid waste management, hazardous waste management and related areas. This role may conduct analysis, planning, modeling and design of treatment systems, providing results, recommendations, plan sets, or other engineering deliverables.

Responsibilities

• Understand the big picture and stabilize urgent issued through continuous responsiveness and resourcefulness.
• Identify ways to unblock stalled projects and progress delayed tasks
• Provides time-bound delivery support
• Perform technical analyses and support the identification of potential solutions to sustainable water resource management.
• Prepare and review detailed reports pertaining to Environmental Engineering.
• Plan and design effective environmental protection systems to safeguard and enhance public and ecosystem health.
• Prepare comprehensive, facility, and strategic resource management plans or similar
• Analyze scientific data and conduct quality control checks to provide plans and recommendations that conform to environmental regulations
• Provide technical support for environmental projects. Areas of technical support could include modeling of wastewater and drinking water treatment and delivery systems, vendor outreach to support planning and design, technical analysis to support permitting and regulatory approvals, construction administration support, among others.
• Flexibility to adapt and execute various additional assignments based on evolving needs.

Preferred Requirements

• Identifies and escalates, and supports stabilization, of urgent issues through project team and program manager.
• Provides time-bound delivery support through rapid problem-solving, and organized project and issue management.
• Internal and client cross-department coordination.

Skills and Competencies

• Highly responsive, adaptable, action-oriented individual with a high level of accountability
• Analytical and forward thinking candidate who can easily become a trusted helper through their sense of reliability
• Basic competency in relevant water resources and environmental engineering principles and techniques.
• Possesses foundational problem-solving skills.
• Ability to analyze and interpret scientific data with attention to detail.
• Excellent communication skills for preparation of reports and presentation of findings.

Key Characteristics

• Highly responsive
• Adaptable
• Action-oriented
• Trusted helper
• Accountable and reliable

experience

• Typically, a minimum of 0-2 years related work experience in Environmental Engineering or related field.
• Encouraged to certify in the SMS framework in the first six months of being in the role.

education

• A bachelor’s degree in environmental engineering or related field is required.

Salary Range: The anticipated starting pay range for this position is based on the employee’s primary work location and may be more or less depending upon skills, experience, and education. These ranges may be modified in the future.

Location A: $64,000 – $87,000
Location B: $71,000 – $96,000
Location C: $77,000 – $105,000

You can view which BC location applies to you here. If you have any questions, please speak with your Recruiter.

Benefits and Other Compensation: We provide a comprehensive benefits package that promotes employee health, performance, and success which includes medical, dental, vision, short and long-term disability, life insurance, an employee assistance program, paid time off and parental leave, paid holidays, 401(k) retirement savings plan with employer match, performance-based bonus eligibility, employee referral bonuses, tuition reimbursement, pet insurance and long-term care insurance. Click here to see our full list of benefits.

About Brown and Caldwell

Headquartered in Walnut Creek, California, Brown and Caldwell is a full-service environmental engineering and construction services firm with 50 offices and over 2,100 professionals across North America and the Pacific. For more than 75 years, we have created leading-edge environmental solutions for municipalities, private industry, and government agencies. We strive to be the company of choice-to our clients, who benefit from our passion for delivering exceptional quality, and to our employees, present and future, who share our commitment to client service, collaboration, and innovation. Join us, and you will find a home where you can do your best work, reach new levels of expertise, and enjoy exceptional development opportunities. For more information, visit www.brownandcaldwell.com

This position is subject to a pre-employment background check and a pre-employment drug test.

Notice to Third Party Agencies: Brown and Caldwell does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruiters or employment agencies. In the event a recruiter or agency submits a resume or candidate without a previously signed agreement and approved engagement request with Brown and Caldwell, Brown and Caldwell reserves the right to pursue and hire those candidate(s) without any financial obligation to the recruiter or agency.

Brown and Caldwell is proud to be an EEO/AAP Employer. Brown and Caldwell encourages protected veterans, individuals with disabilities, and applicants from all backgrounds to apply. Brown and Caldwell ensures nondiscrimination in all programs and activities in accordance with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act.

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