**Description** Schnabel is an employee-owned, professional engineering and consulting firm that focuses on solving problems related to the earth and environment through specialization in geotechnical, geostructural, tunnel, and dam engineering. Schnabel’s high standards for quality, business ethics, and concern for the communities in which we live are a vital part of who we are. Schnabel is an ENR Top 500 Design Firm with 700+ employees in 31 offices throughout the United States. Recognized by CE News as one of the Best Engineering Firms to Work for, Schnabel provides employees with a competitive benefits package including maternity leave, tuition reimbursement for continuing education, health, dental, life and disability insurance and a wellness program. As an employee-owned company, through the Employee Stock Ownership Plan, Schnabel employees directly benefit from the success of our growing firm. **Benefit options include:** + Medical insurance + Dental insurance + Flexible spending accounts + Employee life & ADD insurance (100% company-paid) + Short-term disability (100% company-paid) + Long-term disability + Supplemental life insurance + 401(k) and profit-sharing plan + Employee stock ownership plan (ESOP) + Bonus program + Paid time off + 9 Paid Holidays + Wellness program + Professional development and tuition reimbursement **Job Description:** Schnabel Engineering is seeking a highly skilled Journeyman Pipefitter or Mechanical Inspector to join our distinguished team for a project located in Alexandria, VA. With a reputation for excellence built over a decade, Schnabel Engineering shapes the foundation of our urban infrastructure. The ideal candidate will play an essential role in our team, ensuring every project we undertake observes the highest standards of safety, quality, and efficiency. **Plant Upgrade Description:** Solids Upgrade Program: The SUP includes replacements to the thickening and dewatering equipment, gravity thickeners, and digestor heat exchangers and mixers. The Program will decommission a pasteurization system and install a new solids dryer facility. Future technologies, such as pyrolysis, may be piloted with operational support provided throughout the pilot's duration. Preliminary and Primary Systems Upgrade Project: The PPSU Project plans to improve and rehabilitate the preliminary and primary processes located in two buildings and the Primary Settling Tanks (PSTs). The improvements in Building A include coarse screen upgrades, a third coarse screen, raw sewage pump upgrades, and raw sewage conduit rehabilitation. Building B improvements include fine screen upgrades, new screenings and grit conveyance, new truck loading technology, new grit washers, scum concentrator upgrades, and a mix of new vortex grit separators and stacked tray grit separators. Lastly, the improvements around the PSTs include primary sludge pump upgrades, refurbishment of the Primary Observation House, relocation of the existing walkway, repair of the PST effluent channel and control structures, and replacement of the PST influent baffles, slide gates, scum skimmers, and handrails. Centrate Pretreatment Project: The CPT Project will upgrade the CPT system to a modernized continuous flow DEMON system. The work will include new flow-through baffles, parabolic screens, submersible pumps, wedge wire screens, instrumentation, and associated piping and cleaning. **Job Responsibilities:** Working under the direction of a Resident Engineer and supported by a Construction Engineer, our inspectors are the Owner’s day-to-day eyes and ears on the ground, responsible for verification and documentation of daily construction activities using Procore. + Documentation includes preparing daily reports with job photos, reporting and documenting work progress, safety and quality observations. + Reviewing maintenance of operations submittals and coordinating subsequent Plant Impact Requests with the Contractor and Plant operations. + Working with all parties to mitigate plant and project risks and facilitate integrated planning. **Required Skills/Experience:** + 10+ years of experience in process mechanical, plumbing, and HVAC inspections for wastewater and/or industrial projects of similar scope and size, and/or + Licensed pipefitter skilled in installation and repairs to complex industrial piping systems for high-pressure fluids like steam, gas, and chemicals + Certifications include licensed master pipefitter or American Petroleum Institute (API) 570 Piping Inspector, National Association of Corrosion Engineers (NACE) Coatings Inspector Level 1, and OSHA 30 trained **Preferred Skills/Experience:** + Experience in this capacity within 130 MGD or larger active wastewater treatment facility’s solids processing systems **Other Requirements:** + Ability to pass a background check which may include criminal history, motor vehicle record, and credit check + Ability to pass a pre-employment drug screening The compensation range for this position is between $50/hour to $83/hour depending on experience. Compensation for this position may vary based on geographic location and other factors. We remain committed to providing competitive and equitable compensation to all employees, regardless of their location. Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities This employer is required to notify all applicants of their rights pursuant to federal employment laws. For further information, please review the Know Your Rights (https://www.eeoc.gov/poster) notice from the Department of Labor.