Principal Engineer - Environmental Remediation and Engineering Practice Leader

Overview

Are you interested in building a meaningful career that can help make a positive impact on the world?

At Geosyntec, we partner with clients to solve complex challenges at the intersection of the environment, water, natural resources, and civil infrastructure. We are seeking a Principal Engineer to help lead and grow our engineering practice in California, with an emphasis on supporting the Fresno office, Central Valley market, and broader Northern California operations.

This is a high-impact leadership opportunity for an accomplished engineering consultant with strong technical expertise, established client relationships, and a proven ability to develop, sell, manage, design, and implement complex environmental, civil, water resources, geotechnical, and remediation engineering programs. The successful candidate will help strengthen Geosyntec’s regional presence, expand our engineering capabilities, and support strategic growth across industrial, municipal, energy, solid waste, transportation, and government markets.

In this role, you will provide senior technical leadership, client and business development vision, project delivery oversight, and people leadership for multidisciplinary teams working on complex engineering, environmental remediation, water resources, geotechnical, civil infrastructure, and construction support projects. You will mentor and develop high-performing staff, cultivate long-term client relationships, and collaborate with regional and national leaders to deliver innovative, technically sound, and practical solutions.

• Environmental engineering, site investigation, remediation design, and remedy implementation.
• Civil and environmental infrastructure design, permitting, construction support, construction observation, and technical advisory services.
• Water resources planning, stormwater management, water supply, groundwater management, and resilient infrastructure projects.
• Geotechnical and civil infrastructure engineering for landfills, containment systems, redevelopment, water and waste containment systems, and resilient infrastructure.
• Engineering analysis, feasibility studies, design calculations, drawings, specifications, cost estimates, and bid/construction documents.
• Remedy construction, commissioning, operations and maintenance, performance monitoring, optimization, and long-term stewardship.
• Projects involving contaminated soil, groundwater, sediment, soil vapor, vapor intrusion, petroleum hydrocarbons, metals, chlorinated solvents, PFAS, PCBs, and other emerging or complex contaminants.
• Regulatory programs and projects involving the California Regional Water Quality Control Boards, DTSC, CUPAs, CERCLA, RCRA, CalEPA programs, and local agencies.

Our clients span the industrial, institutional, energy, solid waste, transportation, municipal, development, and public-sector markets, offering the opportunity to work on impactful projects that address critical environmental, water, and infrastructure challenges.

• Lead and grow a strategic engineering practice in California, with a focus on Fresno, the Central Valley, and Northern California.
• Develop and expand client relationships across environmental, water resources, infrastructure, industrial, energy, solid waste, transportation, public-sector, and private-sector markets.
• Serve as a Client Manager, Account Lead, senior technical advisor, or engineering practice leader for key strategic clients.
• Work on complex projects that address critical environmental, engineering, water, remediation, compliance, and infrastructure challenges.
• Collaborate with recognized technical experts across Geosyntec’s national and international consulting platform.
• Make a lasting impact through strategic growth, mentorship, technical excellence, innovation, and exceptional client service.

Geosyntec is an innovative, international engineering and consulting firm serving private and public-sector clients to address new ventures and complex problems involving our environment, natural resources, and civil…