Watershed Services; Stream Restoration Manager

Watershed Services (Stream Restoration) Manager

McCormick Taylor, Inc. is a full-service civil engineering firm providing creative design, planning, and environmental solutions to the challenges of everyday life. Since 1946, we’ve focused on our relationships with people—our employees, our clients, and the communities we serve. Our culture matters because our people matter. We strive to create pathways for career advancement that suit the individual. We embrace hybrid work flexibility and the cultural shift toward a greater work-life balance.

We’ve grown as a company over 75 years and 17 offices by building our team around people that share our passion for meaningful and impactful work.

McCormick Taylor is seeking an experienced Manager/Sr. Manager for our Watershed Services team in our growing Baltimore, MD office. We are looking for a person that is excited to lead a dynamic, collaborative team that is passionate about their work. The ideal candidate is anticipated to have 12+ years of experience with design and management of stream restoration projects and other projects which support water quality and MS4 compliance, as well as a solid understanding of fluvial geomorphology, sediment transport, stream ecology and stream assessment principles.

The candidate should have experience interfacing with Maryland state and municipal/county clients and managing work under local on-call contracts for environmental design services. The role may include work in adjacent states and District of Columbia. Job title and compensation commensurate with depth of design, project management and leadership experience.

The Watershed Services Manager will lead a team of junior and mid-level environmental designers and project managers performing assessment and design of small to large stream restoration projects, and other water quality projects, from conceptual design through development of advertisement packages for construction. The candidate will be responsible for developing and maintaining working relationships with local clients, managing contracts and team workload, proposal development and interfacing with our Water Resources and Natural Resources teams to partner on design and proposal efforts.

This position will involve office and occasional field work primarily in Maryland, DC, and northern Virginia, overseeing the physical and biological field surveys of streams, evaluating existing conditions, conducting functional assessments, developing restoration design solutions and overseeing environmental restoration construction. Some travel in the Mid‑Atlantic region is likely.

• Lead environmental restoration design projects (including but not limited to stream, wetland, and shoreline restoration projects)
• Development, Project Management, and QC of reports, construction plans, specifications, and construction cost estimates in support of design, assessment, and monitoring efforts
• Supervision and performance of field work including but not limited to geomorphic assessment, natural resource inventories, and watershed inventories and assessments
• Leadership of the local Watershed Services project teams, including mentorship, client communication and participation in marketing and business development.

• B.S. or M.S. in relevant engineering or science field (e.g., Civil, Environmental, Ecological, Biosystems) required. P.E. a plus but not required
• 12+ professional years of experience
• Strong organizational, written and verbal communication skills required.
• Critical thinking skills required.
• Ability to work both collaboratively/in a team environment and independently required.
• Project design and management experience related to stream, wetland, living shoreline, and/or other water quality initiatives required.
• Experience performing field work for geomorphic assessments, stream functions assessment/ecological uplift potential, environmental construction oversight, and post-construction monitoring required.
• Experience completing MS4/TMDL credit calculations using Chesapeake Bay Program protocols preferred.
• Ability to work in physically challenging outdoor…