Senior Project Engineer, Albuquerque, NM -ABQ

Senior Project Engineer, Albuquerque, NM 25-54-ABQ-14

INTERA
Incorporated is seeking a skilled and motivated Senior Civil, Environmental, Chemical, or Geological Engineer to join our Albuquerque office. In this role, you will manage, lead, and/or support the delivery of high-quality projects for a diverse range of clients, including state and municipal agencies, mining companies, and private industries that share our values of environmental stewardship and technical excellence.

You will contribute to a variety of reclamation, remediation, and environmental characterization and design projects — helping clients meet regulatory requirements, restore impacted sites, and sustainably manage natural resources.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead the development of technical documents, including feasibility studies, remedial designs, and optimization studies; lead teams in the operation, maintenance and monitoring of remediation systems; and conduct functionality review of system performance at Superfund, mining, landfill, petroleum storage tank, and industrial sites.
• Support senior environmental and engineering staff in and/or manage multi-disciplinary projects involving permitting, reclamation, site remediation, and contamination characterization.
• Lead and/or support client communications and be responsible for project budgets, schedules, and deliverables.
• Design and implement field investigations (soil, groundwater, surface water, soil vapor, and non-aqueous phase liquids).
• Design solutions for mine waste and tailings management, including site closure and reclamation for domestic and international mining clients.
• Support design and implementation of remediation measures for environmental sites contaminated with petroleum hydrocarbons, chlorinated solvents, PFAS and emerging contaminants, metal or inorganic contaminants, and/or radionuclides.
• Develop site conceptual models and support risk assessments.
• Create design drawings and construction specifications.
• Mentor junior staff and collaborate with technical teams across the company.
• Support business development by maintaining client relationships and identifying new opportunities.

Required Qualifications and

Experience:

• B.S. in Civil, Environmental, Chemical, or Geological Engineering, or a related field.
• 15—25 years of relevant professional experience.
• Demonstrated experience managing environmental or engineering projects or tasks.
• Prior experience in all engineering stages of design-build projects including feasibility studies, conceptual designs, development of construction drawings and specifications, engineering cost estimates, construction quality assurance, and record document development.
• Strong technical writing, data analysis, verbal and graphic communication, and project management skills.
• Field experience with sample collection and construction oversight.
• Experience with site reclamation, remediation technologies, and environmental compliance.
• Familiarity with state and federal environmental regulations (e.g., RCRA, CERCLA, NMED/NMAC, EPA) and risk-based criteria.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team.

Preferred Qualifications and

Experience:

• Professional engineering licensure.
• Master’s degree in engineering, hydrology, or a related field.
• Experience with mining reclamation, groundwater remediation, soil vapor extraction, or contaminated site investigations in the Southwest U.S.
• Landfill design, permitting, and construction QA/QC and certification.
• Landfill gas management/monitoring.
• Field experience in drilling oversight.
• BMP Selection and SWPPP development.
• Proficiency in Auto Cad Civil3d for developing grading plans, creating utility design drawings, and managing sheet sets.
• Knowledge of HEC-HMS, HEC-RAS, and HELP.
• Knowledge of air quality regulations and permitting.
• Skill with GIS tools and apps (e.g., Survey 123), SCADA, groundwater/surface water/vadose zone modeling, statistical methods, environmental chemistry, or contaminant fate and transport.
• OSHA 40-hour HAZWOPER certification and/or MSHA.

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