Civil Engineer; Civil Works and Site Development Federal
Listed on 2026-10-31
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Engineering
Civil Engineering, Environmental Engineer, Water Engineer
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Thriving communities. Healthy cities. A brighter future. What we do is more than building infrastructure, we work every day to make the world better for everyone. Join a company invested in you, your success, and the global community. We are looking for a driven and curious Senior Water Resources Engineer to support our Federal team in a hybrid capacity at our Denver office.
As a key member of our team, you’ll join our collaborative process providing our clients with award-winning planning, engineering, and construction management services. The ideal candidate is one who is passionate about Federal Civil Works projects as well as traditional site civil design. This candidate should have a keen interest in developing solutions that address our country’s water, resiliency, and disaster recovery challenges as well as leading the planning, design, and production of civil engineering deliverables for Federal site development projects.
This position serves as a technical leader and Designer of Record (DOR), ensuring the completeness, quality, and timely execution of project work while maintaining budget and schedule commitment.
The candidate will serve as a technical leader on complex water resources projects involving stormwater management, flood risk reduction, climate adaptation, site development, grading and drainage, utility design, and civil infrastructure design. This role will apply advanced expertise in hydrologic and hydraulic (H&H) analysis, flood mitigation strategies, and ecological restoration to support projects for a wide variety of Federal, State, and local agencies including U.S. Army Corps of Engineers districts nationwide.
You’ll perform civil design calculations and prepare site layouts for both small and large-scale projects while conforming to design standards for a variety of clients. You’ll have the opportunity to work in a team environment and coordinate project assignments with other engineers and technicians in and out of your discipline group, as well as with clients and end users in Federal Civilian and Department of Defense (DoD) government agencies.
This is an incredible opportunity for a passionate candidate to explore a rigorous discipline and immerse themselves in their career. Join us and we will assist in growing your career and exploring all that you can do across our global company, with opportunities to share your knowledge along the way.
Responsibilities include:
- Act as lead Water Resources Engineer for functional teams on projects with varying complexity around the country
- Lead civil site development design from concept through construction.
- Perform site layout, utility, roadway, grading, drainage, and pavement design.
- Work closely with project managers to respond to client Requests for Proposal (RFPs) with written, technical scopes of work and estimated levels of effort
- Plan and execute work independently while performing non-routine and complex assignments
- Interpret business issues and recommend best practices
- Interpret and implement regulatory code requirements and design standards based on extensive experience with federal programs
- Lead teams in H&H modeling efforts and the preparation of engineering assessment reports and design documents, including plans, specifications, calculations, and basis of design reports
- Serve as a quality control reviewer to ensure…
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