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About the Role

Black & Veatch has an exciting opportunity to join our growing national Corrosion and Cathodic Protection practice within the Infrastructure Advisory Technical Delivery team. This role supports a diverse portfolio of projects involving pipelines, tanks, and related infrastructure across water, energy, power generation, and other infrastructure markets. This position is intended for an experienced cathodic protection professional with a strong background in engineering design. The successful candidate will take a lead role in developing galvanic and impressed current cathodic protection systems, preparing engineering calculations and design documents, evaluating existing systems, and providing technical direction to project teams and junior professionals. The role also includes field investigations, commissioning, and troubleshooting activities to support design development and verify system performance; however, the primary focus of the position is cathodic protection engineering and design. This position provides the opportunity to lead the design of cathodic protection systems for pipelines, tanks, and related metallic infrastructure, develop design criteria, engineering calculations, equipment selections, drawings, specifications, cost estimates, and technical design documentation, evaluate existing cathodic protection systems and develop rehabilitation, replacement, and optimization recommendations, apply field data, soil resistivity information, interference studies, and system performance data to engineering design decisions, lead technical deliverables and communicate design approaches, alternatives, and recommendations directly with clients and multidisciplinary project teams, provide technical review and mentoring to junior engineers and consultants, participate in field investigations, commissioning, and troubleshooting to support design development and verify installed system performance, and contribute to project pursuits, scope and fee development, and growth of Black & Veatch’s national corrosion practice. This is a strong opportunity for an experienced cathodic protection design professional seeking greater technical leadership, project ownership, and involvement in complex infrastructure projects.

Responsibilities

Lead cathodic protection engineering and design tasks for new and existing infrastructure.
Develop current cathodic protection system designs from concept through final design.
Perform and review engineering calculations including protected surface area, coating breakdown, current requirements, anode resistance and life, groundbed resistance, rectifier sizing, voltage drop, circuit resistance, and related design calculations.
Develop technical approaches for anode and groundbed configuration, rectifier and junction box selection, test stations, monitoring provisions, electrical isolation, continuity bonding, and interference mitigation.
Prepare and review cathodic protection drawings, details, specifications, design criteria, technical memoranda, reports, cost estimates, and other design deliverables.
Evaluate existing cathodic protection systems and develop rehabilitation, replacement, expansion, or optimization recommendations.
Interpret soil resistivity, structure-to-electrolyte potential, current requirement, interference, and other field data for use in engineering design and system performance evaluation.
Perform technical reviews and QA/QC of cathodic protection calculations, drawings, specifications, and reports prepared by other team members.
Provide technical direction and mentoring to junior engineers, consultants, designers, and field personnel.
Coordinate with civil, mechanical, electrical, structural, pipeline, and other engineering disciplines to integrate cathodic protection requirements into multidisciplinary designs.
Lead technical discussions with clients and project teams and clearly explain design basis, alternatives, assumptions, risks, and recommendations.
Support field investigations, commissioning, performance testing, and troubleshooting of cathodic protection systems when required.
Manage assigned technical task budgets, schedules, quality requirements, and resource needs.
Support project scopes, staffing plans, level-of-effort estimates, fee development, and proposal preparation.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in engineering, materials science, corrosion engineering, or a related technical field, or relevant experience consistent with company requirements.
Minimum of 7 years of related experience in cathodic protection, corrosion control, or corrosion engineering.
AMPP CP3 certification or higher.
Professional Engineer (PE) license.
8-10 years’ experience in the corrosion and cathodic protection consulting environment.
Master’s degree in engineering or a related technical field.
Extensive experience with galvanic and impressed current cathodic protection systems, including design development, engineering calculations, construction documents, specifications, and construction support for large-diameter metallic pipelines, water transmission infrastructure, tanks, power generation facilities, and other major infrastructure assets.
Experience with electrical isolation, interference mitigation, AC/DC stray current considerations, and integration of cathodic protection systems with other project systems.
Experience performing independent technical review or QA/QC of cathodic protection designs.
Experience leading multidisciplinary design coordination and working directly with clients.
Experience serving as technical task lead or project manager on corrosion or cathodic protection projects.
Experience developing project scopes, level-of-effort estimates, and technical proposal content.
Demonstrated experience independently developing cathodic protection system designs for buried or submerged metallic infrastructure.
Demonstrated experience preparing cathodic protection engineering calculations, drawings, specifications, and technical design documentation.
Experience designing galvanic and/or impressed current cathodic protection systems. Experience with both system types is strongly desired.
Working knowledge of cathodic protection design concepts including current requirement determination, anode and groundbed design, anode life, rectifier sizing, electrical isolation, continuity, voltage drop, and system monitoring.
Ability to evaluate field and site-specific data and incorporate results into cathodic protection design decisions.
Experience reviewing technical work and providing direction to less experienced professionals.
Ability to independently lead technical tasks and take ownership of technical deliverables, schedule, quality, and coordination.
Ability to clearly communicate technical approaches, assumptions, findings, and recommendations through written deliverables and client discussions.
AMPP/NACE Cathodic Protection certification at CP2 level or higher.
Ability to travel approximately 20% or as required by project assignments.
Candidates should also have practical familiarity with cathodic protection field methods such as: Structure-to-electrolyte potential measurements, Wenner four-pin soil resistivity testing, Close Interval Potential Surveys (CIPS), Electrical continuity and isolation testing, Current requirement testing, Rectifier testing, adjustment, and interruption, Stray current and interference testing, Cathodic protection system commissioning and troubleshooting.

Skills

Cathodic protection design
Corrosion engineering
Engineering calculations
Design documents
Field investigations
Commissioning
Troubleshooting
Technical direction
Project management
Client communication
Technical review
Mentoring
Galvanic cathodic protection systems
Impressed current cathodic protection systems
Electrical isolation
Interference mitigation
AC/DC stray current considerations
Soil resistivity testing
Structure-to-electrolyte potential measurements
Close Interval Potential Surveys (CIPS)
Electrical continuity and isolation testing
Current requirement testing
Rectifier testing
Stray current and interference testing

Location

United States

Work Type

Full-Time
Hybrid
Flexible work options

Experience Level

7+ years of related experience
8-10 years’ experience in the corrosion and cathodic protection consulting environment

Education Level

Bachelor’s degree in engineering, materials science, corrosion engineering, or a related technical field
Master’s degree in engineering or a related technical field

Salary/Compensations

State of California: $130,010.00 - $258,570.00
State of Colorado: $130,010.00 - $218,790.00
State of Illinois: $130,010.00 - $218,790.00
State of Massachusetts: $142,920.00 - $238,680.00

Benefits

Medical insurance
Dental insurance
Vision insurance
Disability insurance
Wellness program
Flexible work schedules
Paid vacation
Paid holiday time
Sick time
Dependent sick time
Company-matched 401k plan
Adoption reimbursement
Tuition reimbursement
Vendor discounts
Employment referral program
AD&D insurance
Pre-taxed accounts
Voluntary legal plan
B&V Credit Union
Performance-based bonus program
ESOP-owned company (stock ownership)

About the Company

Together, we own our company, our future, and our shared success.
As an employee-owned company, our people are Black & Veatch.
We put them at the center of everything we do and empower them to grow, explore new possibilities and use their diverse talents and perspectives to solve humanity's biggest challenges in an ever-evolving world.
With over 100 years of innovation in sustainable infrastructure and our expertise in engineering, procurement, consulting and construction, together we are building a world of difference.
At Black & Veatch, you’ll be part of work that matters—designing, creating, and building the infrastructure communities rely on every day, from concept through execution.
We care about how the work gets done as much as what we build. Safety is built into every decision, and people look out for each other—speaking up, collaborating, and doing the right thing because it affects real lives.
You’ll work alongside teams solving complex challenges and turning ideas into solutions that perform in the real world—gaining hands-on experience across projects, technologies, and disciplines.
Ownership shows up in how we work. We take responsibility for outcomes, follow through on commitments, and take pride in what we deliver.
With flexible ways of working and meaningful development opportunities, you’ll build a career you can be proud to stand behind.
In this role, you will be part of Black & Veatch’s national Corrosion and Cathodic Protection practice within the Infrastructure Advisory Technical Delivery team.
The corrosion practice supports clients across water, energy, power generation, and other infrastructure markets through cathodic protection design, corrosion assessments, field investigations, system evaluations, and technical consulting.
Black & Veatch’s Infrastructure Advisory Business provides a portfolio of solutions focused on the asset lifecycle, including Condition Assessment, Asset Management, Operations & Maintenance, Infrastructure Technology, Cybersecurity, Planning, and Transactions.
The Consulting Team is a diverse group of professionals who work across a wide range of technical projects and disciplines, providing opportunities to build a strong technical foundation and develop deeper expertise as they advance in their careers.
Black & Veatch endeavors to make www.bv.com/careers accessible to any and all users.
Black & Veatch is committed to being an employer of choice by creating a valuable work experience that keeps our people engaged, productive, safe and healthy.
By valuing diverse voices and perspectives, we cultivate an authentically inclusive environment for professionals and are able to provide innovative and effective solutions for clients.

Equal Opportunity

BVH, Inc., its subsidiaries and its affiliated companies, complies with all Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) laws and regulations.
Black & Veatch does not discriminate on the basis of age, race, religion, color, sex, national origin, marital status, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender Identity and expression, disability, veteran status, pregnancy status or other status protected by law.