Project Engineer - Water Resources

McAdams is a full-service land planning, landscape architecture, civil engineering, transportation and geomatics firm located in North Carolina and Texas. We seek a partnership with our clients to create meaningful experiences through inspired design. Our employees are what makes McAdams different. We bring experiences to the forefront of everything we do and to do that takes special people.

Essential Functions + Responsibilities

• Be on the forefront of an evolving design market
• Interact with other operational groups within the overall company structure
• Communicate with plan reviewers and project stakeholders
• Creative problem solving
• Work with senior engineering and landscape architecture staff to design innovative stormwater and resiliency measures which reduce flooding
• Working on stormwater designs, retrofits, construction drawings, and watershed planning studies.
• Collaborate with Land Development, Planners, and Landscape Architects to enhance stormwater designs and integrate stormwater into site architecture
• Work with a variety of client types including residential and commercial development, campuses, multimodal transportation, greenways, and parks
• Field work and site visits from study or design through construction
• Design and/or analysis of riverine and open stormwater conveyances, including swales, constructed, and natural channels. Design and/or analysis of other stormwater conveyances such as curb cuts, flumes, and pipe culvert systems to direct runoff to management strategies may also be required
• Design and analysis of stormwater management facilities (peak flow rate detention)
• Development and analysis of proposed design solutions
• Creation of FEMA Flood Studies, CLOMR/LOMR letters, and No-Rise certifications
  
  

Qualifications

• Four-year bachelor’s degree from an accredited program in Civil Engineering, Environmental Engineering, Biological and Agricultural Engineering, Civil Engineering Technology, or related field
• 5 - 10 years of experience in water resources and design experience
• Experience with AutoCAD
• Excellent communication, critical thinking, and problem-solving skills
• Self-starter with strong drive to better oneself, project team, and community
• Ability and desire to be licensed in Texas within 4 months
  
  

Preferences

• Experience with stormwater, floodplain, and watershed modeling
• Experience with FEMA processes and submittals
• Understanding of common stormwater regulations and permitting requirements
• Civil 3D
• Exposure to ArcGIS Pro or other GIS Software
• Experience with HEC-RAS, HEC-HMS
• Licensed as a Professional Engineer in Texas
  
  

McAdams is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard for race, color, religion, gender (including pregnancy, sexual orientation, or gender identity), national origin, age, disability, genetic information, veteran's status, or any other legally protected status.

If you need assistance with our online application system process, please contact the Human Resources Team at 919.361.5000 or hrteam@mcadamsco.com.

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