Sr. Water Quality Engineer

Seattle Public Utilities (SPU) is seeking a Senior Water Quality Engineer to help protect and enhance one of the region’s most essential resources: clean, reliable drinking water for more than a million people. In this role, you’ll be SPU’s technical leader on its most complex and high-impact water quality and treatment challenges—work that directly safeguards public health and strengthens trust in Seattle’s drinking water.

You’ll drive treatment strategy, system performance improvements, and data-informed decision-making across the entire drinking water system. Working closely with operators, engineers, planners, and project teams, you’ll bring expert insight to daily operations, major capital initiatives, and emergency response.

Reporting to the Water Quality Engineering Supervisor, this position offers the chance to shape citywide outcomes, solve critical water quality issues, and help ensure Seattle’s drinking water remains among the best in the nation.

About Seattle Public Utilities: Seattle Public Utilities (SPU) is a community-centered utility that delivers vital services to Seattle residents and businesses including drinking water, drainage and wastewater, and garbage/recycling/compost. SPU also provides drinking water for 1.5 million customers in the region. SPU’s work includes system maintenance and improvements and keeping Seattle clean. Over 1,500 SPU employees work with our community to provide affordable and equitable stewardship of our water and waste resources for future generations.

For more information about Seattle Public Utilities (SPU), checkout the: • SPU Website

• Strategic Business Plan

SPU commits to Our City Values and Race and Social Justice as core principles that guide our work. We actively take steps to dismantle systemic racism and increase