Professional Engineer - Water​/Drainage

Overview

Description At Horrocks, we believe the best work comes from companies with values, that our people are our greatest resource, and that we have a responsibility to the communities where we live and work.

Department: Community Infrastructure

Location: Las Vegas, NV

Serve as a project engineer on multi‑discipline water resources projects, owning scope, schedule, budget, quality, and risk from planning through construction support while delivering client value and stakeholder satisfaction.

• Project Planning & Work Plans:
  Develop project execution plans, scopes of work, and phase plans; tailor delivery approach (predictive, agile/hybrid) to context while focusing on value delivery and outcomes.
• Scope, Schedule, and Budget Control:
  Establish baselines; monitor progress; apply change management; maintain earned value/cost/schedule reporting appropriate to project scale. Follow Company change management procedures and delegation of authority (DOA).
• Risk & Opportunity Management:
  Identify, analyze (qualitative/quantitative), respond to, and monitor risks; proactively escalate issues and capture opportunities.
• Stakeholder & Client Engagement:
  Map stakeholders; maintain transparent communications; lead meetings and presentations; manage expectations and decisions.
• Quality Management (QA/QC):
  Plan and execute design reviews, interdisciplinary checks, model reviews, and constructability reviews; maintain document control and versioning.
• Resource & Subconsultant Management:
  Forecast and allocate staff; coordinate multi‑office workshare; manage subconsultant scopes, deliverables, and invoices.
• Health, Safety, and Environmental Stewardship:
  Integrate safety-by-design and environmental considerations; uphold company and client procedures.
• Commercial Management:
  Prepare fee proposals; track budgets; support invoicing and cash flow; manage contract compliance and modifications.
• Documentation & Lessons Learned:
  Maintain decision logs; archive calculations and correspondence; conduct closeout, performance review, and lessons-learned sessions.
• Perform services with the ordinary skill and care of a reasonably prudent Professional Engineer practicing under similar circumstances at the same time and in the same or similar locality; perfection is not implied.
• Hold paramount the safety, health, and welfare of the public; practice only within areas of competence; act as a faithful agent to the client; maintain honesty and integrity in all communications.
• Comply with applicable laws, codes, standards, and permitting requirements; identify constraints and assumptions transparently.
• Avoid expanding obligations beyond insurable standard-of-care language unless expressly negotiated (e.g., “best,” “highest,” or “ensure” may inadvertently elevate liability).
• Document key decisions, design bases, and limitations (including data gaps and uncertainties such as those arising from climate, geotechnical, or hydrologic variability).
• Follow the firm’s Quality Management Plan (QMP).
• Plan checklists and hold-gates for calculations, models, drawings, and specifications; incorporate independent technical reviews and interdisciplinary coordination.
• Ensure traceability of inputs, assumptions, and revisions; manage document control per project standards.
• Pursue continuous improvement via audits, corrective actions, and client feedback; use metrics to assess process effectiveness.
• Plan, design, and analyze water transmission, storage, and distribution systems; wastewater collection systems; and pump stations.
• Perform hydrologic and hydraulic analyses; prepare drainage studies, master plans, and feasibility reports.
• Develop plans, specifications, and engineer’s estimates; support permitting across jurisdictions.
• Build and calibrate system and network models; evaluate alternatives; support value engineering and constructability reviews.
• Coordinate field data collection, condition assessments, and utility investigations.
• Lead and mentor other team members, engineers and designers; foster collaborative, inclusive teams across disciplines and offices.
• Coordinate with clients, agencies, and subconsultants; support pursuit efforts and…