Senior Water Resources Engineer

Overview

Do you want to build an impactful career to change the world for the better?

Geosyntec has an exciting opportunity for a Senior Water Resources Engineer in our Milwaukee, Wisconsin office. This position is ideal for a senior water resources professional with experience leading multidisciplinary teams and delivering nature-based solutions, green stormwater infrastructure, ecological restoration (stream, lakes, and wetland), constructed wetlands, resilient parks/open space, and watershed improvement projects from planning and funding strategy through design, permitting, construction documents, stakeholder engagement, and construction-phase support.

In this role, you will help public- and private-sector clients advance practical, community-centered, climate-resilient infrastructure solutions while contributing to client development, proposal strategy, staff mentorship, and project delivery.

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 infrastructure. Our engineers, scientists, technical and project employees serve our clients from offices across the world. Ranked by ENR as one of the top environmental engineering design firms, Geosyntec is internationally known for its technical leadership, broad experience, and exceptional client service.

We offer competitive pay and benefits, and well-being programs to support you and your family.

• Lead and manage multidisciplinary project teams to deliver stormwater, watershed, ecological restoration, and climate resilience projects.
• Serve as project manager, senior technical lead, or design lead for planning, design, permitting, and construction-phase assignments involving green stormwater infrastructure, low impact development (LID), constructed wetlands, stream and shoreline restoration, resilient parks, public open space, trails, boardwalks, and related civil/environmental infrastructure.
• Oversee hydrologic and hydraulic analyses/modeling, watershed assessments, floodplain evaluations, stormwater BMP sizing, water quality treatment evaluations, alternatives analyses, and design documentation using tools such as SWMM, InfoSWMM, PC-SWMM, XP-SWMM, HydroCAD, WinSLAMM, HEC-RAS, and GIS-based workflows.
• Develop and review engineering calculations, from conceptual through final design plans, specifications, construction documents, technical memoranda, permit-support materials, cost estimates, bid documents, and construction-phase documentation.
• Manage environmental permitting and agency coordination for local, state, and federal approvals, including stormwater, wetlands, floodplain, water quality, coastal/shoreline, historic/cultural resource, NPDES/MS4, and Clean Water Act-related requirements.
• Support municipal, watershed association, state/federal agency, institutional, and nonprofit clients with capital project planning, grant strategy, funding applications, public outreach, stakeholder engagement, and implementation planning.
• Lead client engagement and relationship management activities, including regular project communications, presentations, public meetings, stakeholder workshops, agency meetings, and development of clear technical materials for technical and non-technical audiences.
• Manage project scopes, schedules, budgets, staffing plans, quality reviews, risk considerations, and deliverables for multiple concurrent consulting assignments.
• Provide senior-level mentorship, technical guidance, and quality review to junior and mid-level staff, supporting staff development and consistent delivery of high-quality work products.
• Support business…