Senior Transportation Drainage Engineer

Imagine a career where your expertise shapes the future of critical transportation infrastructure

Are you a visionary influencer in the field of 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 and agile environment.

Now operating for over 75 years, we continue to strive for excellence in everything we do. Dillon has been listed as one of Canada’s Best Managed Companies for the past 19 years and has the distinction of having achieved Platinum Club member status in this program. We're not just a company, we're 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 our multidisciplinary group of professionals. This is your chance to dive into exciting, new projects, delivering unparalleled client experiences and shaping the world around us. At Dillon, we operate as one cohesive team.

At Dillon, we operate as one team.

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

We provide the resources and opportunities for you to steer your professional development. We provide you with a range of resources and opportunities, which, combined with your actions, build the foundation for a rewarding career. Our Employee Career Management strategy outlines a path that bridges short-term tasks with your long-term goals, enabling an exploration of diverse and fulfilling career trajectories. We see you as the architect of your career journey, and we are committed to supporting you every step of the way.

You'll be at the forefront of critical transportation projects, providing expert technical input and innovative solutions.

• 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 modelling for transportation corridors, including the design of watercourse crossing culverts and bridges hydraulics, roadway culverts, watercourse crossing culverts and bridges hydraulics, ditching, and integrated storm sewers, and stormwater management systems.
• Conduct hydrologic and hydraulic modelling and analysis tasks utilizing software such as HEC-RAS, HEC-HMS, PCSWMM, Info Works ICM, and Visual OTTHYMO.
• Provide technical input for complex or unique assignments.
• Support multi-disciplinary projects or programs.
• Direct, coordinate and supervise water resources related activities of engineering and design groups, both from 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 results of simulations 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.
• Project components include project planning, technical evaluations, studies, preliminary design, final design, and services during construction.
• Study evaluations include the analysis of alternatives, methods of implementation, and cost analyses.
• Fulfill project plans in accordance with established scopes of work, budgets, and schedules to execute high quality projects.
• Develop new or novel concepts and approaches, and recommend major design changes.
• Input to the career development of more junior staff, including technical direction, training recommendations, coaching and mentoring.
• Drive technical innovation by pioneering advanced modeling techniques, integrating emerging climate resilience strategies into drainage designs, and deploying cutting-edge digital workflows to optimize infrastructure performance.

• Contribute to business development activities including leading the preparation of project proposals and presentations.
• Engagement with our clients to identify potential opportunities and…