Senior Structural Engineer; Water Management

Structural Engineer (Water Management) – Arcadis

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Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets. We are more than 36,000 people, in over 70 countries, dedicated to improving quality of life. Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds, together we can solve the world’s most complex challenges and deliver more impact together.

Arcadis is seeking a Structural Engineer to join our Climate Adaptation and Water Management Team in Virginia Beach or Richmond, Virginia. As a Structural Engineer, you will play a key role in delivering engineering and consulting services for a variety of projects, including flood risk reduction, waterfront infrastructure resilience, dam safety, lock and navigation structure design, and more.

• Conduct structural analysis, design, and engineering during construction services for climate adaptation projects, including seismic risk reduction, flood mitigation, and infrastructure resilience initiatives.
• Conduct structural‑related engineering investigations, calculations, and planning work within a well‑defined scope.
• Research feasibility of alternative design approaches, site conditions and regulatory agency specifications.
• Develop calculations, plans, specifications, requests for proposals, and other contract documents.
• Work directly with engineering disciplines, office/project staff, clients and sub‑contractors throughout the project life cycle, and communicate clearly in oral and written form.
• Exercise judgment on work details and preliminary selections and adaptations of engineering alternatives.
• Function as Design Lead, Task Manager or Project Engineer, managing budgets, schedules, deliverables, plans, permit checklists and scopes of work, and facilitate coordination for timely completion.
• Travel may be required for project site visits, client meetings, safety audits, planning purposes or to oversee construction activities.
• Mentor entry‑level and junior structural engineering staff.

• 8 years of relevant experience.
• Bachelor's degree in a related discipline.
• Professional Engineer (PE) registration.

The ideal candidate will have experience in designing flood walls, flood gates, retaining wall structures, and deep foundations, particularly on federal resiliency projects. A Master’s degree in Structural Engineering is a plus, along with progressive experience in infrastructure projects related to water management, flood control, and seismic resilience. Proficiency in structural analysis and design software such as STAAD, MathCAD, AutoCAD, and Revit is also helpful for this role.

We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day which is why we take equality and inclusion seriously and hold ourselves to account for our actions. We are an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. Women, minorities, people with disabilities and veterans are strongly encouraged to apply. We are dedicated to a policy of non‑discrimination in employment on any basis including race, creed, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, citizenship status, veteran status, or any other basis prohibited by law.

Arcadis offers benefits for full‑time and part‑time positions, including medical, dental, and vision, EAP, 401K, STD, LTD, AD&D, life insurance, paid parental leave, reward & recognition program, and optional wellbeing benefits, adoption assistance and tuition reimbursement. We offer nine paid holidays and 15 days PTO that accrue per year.

$80,000 – $132,000 per year, depending on experience, education, budget, internal equity, project and location.

Mid‑Senior level

Full‑time

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