Senior Transportation Drainage Engineer

Overview

Imagine a career where your expertise shapes the future of critical transportation infrastructure. Are you a visionary influencer in Water Resources Engineering who thrives in a fast‑paced consulting environment, enjoys solving complex challenges, and excels at business development, sales, and building strong relationships? If you enjoy entrepreneurship and innovation, this opportunity is for you! As someone with excellent communication skills and business acumen, you will thrive in our fast‑paced, agile environment.

Now operating for over 75 years, Dillon continues to strive for excellence. Dillon has been listed as one of Canada’s Best Managed Companies for the past 19 years and has attained Platinum Club member status in this program. We are a community of trusted advisors, thought leaders, and innovators dedicated to excellence and transforming challenges into solutions.

Dillon’s Water Resources team is seeking a Senior Transportation Drainage Engineer to become an integral part of a multidisciplinary group of professionals. This is your chance to dive into exciting new projects, deliver unparalleled client experiences, and shape the world around us. At Dillon we operate as one cohesive team.

Position is available in our Kingston, Windsor, London, Guelph, Hamilton, Oakville, and North York offices.

We empower you to design your career. We provide resources and opportunities for professional development, offering a path that bridges short‑term tasks with long‑term goals. We see you as the architect of your career journey and are committed to supporting you every step of the way.

• Provide senior technical expertise for the delivery of complex highway drainage and transportation‑related water resource projects for both public and private sector clients.
• Lead hydrologic and hydraulic modeling for transportation corridors, including the design of watercourse crossing culverts, bridge hydraulics, roadway culverts, ditching, integrated storm sewers, and stormwater management systems.
• Conduct hydrologic and hydraulic modeling and analysis using tools such as HEC‑RAS, HEC‑HMS, PCSWMM, Info Works ICM, and Visual OTTHYMO.
• Provide technical input for complex or unique assignments and support multidisciplinary projects or programs.
• Direct, coordinate, and supervise water resources related activities of engineering and design groups from both a technical and functional standpoint.
• Coordinate with cross‑disciplines to identify and incorporate relevant data pertaining to hydrologic and hydraulic parameters, system connectivity, discharge points, project constraints, and implementation considerations.
• Interpret simulation results to assess capacity, identify system deficiencies, and evaluate improvement alternatives.
• Apply monitored and statistical data to models to simulate return‑period and continuous scenarios, and to calibrate and validate results.
• Provide project engineering and technical expertise, calculations, and design input to various stormwater management and drainage systems.
• Lead conceptual and detailed design of drainage and/or stormwater management infrastructure.
• Undertake studies, assessments, modeling, preliminary and detailed design, cost estimates, specifications, and input to contract documents.
• Execute project components, including project planning, technical evaluations, studies, preliminary design, final design, and construction services.
• Analyze alternatives, methods of implementation, and cost analyses.
• Fulfill project plans in accordance with established scopes of work, budgets, and schedules to deliver high‑quality results.
• Develop new or novel concepts and recommend major design changes.
• Provide technical direction, training recommendations, coaching, and mentoring to junior staff.
• Drive technical innovation by pioneering advanced modeling techniques, integrating emerging climate resilience strategies, and deploying cutting‑edge digital workflows.

• Contribute to business development activities, including leading the preparation of project proposals and presentations.
• Engage with clients to identify…