Your Opportunity

Stantec's Texas Water group is seeking a motivated Water Resources Engineer to join our Watershed & River Hydraulics team. This position will support a wide range of flood risk management, watershed planning, drainage, riverine, coastal resilience, and water resources infrastructure projects throughout Texas and across North America.

This role offers the opportunity to contribute technically while also taking increasing responsibility for project coordination, client interaction, task management, and project delivery. The successful candidate will work alongside multidisciplinary teams to develop innovative solutions that address complex water resources challenges facing our communities.

Your Key Responsibilities

• Perform hydrologic and hydraulic analyses for watershed, riverine, stormwater, floodplain management, and drainage improvement projects.
• Develop, calibrate, and apply HEC-RAS 1D and 2D, HEC-HMS, and other water resources models to support planning, permitting, design, and flood risk evaluations.
• Conduct engineering studies, feasibility analyses, alternatives evaluations, and technical assessments.
• Prepare technical memoranda, engineering reports, floodplain studies, calculations, specifications, presentations, and client deliverables.
• Utilize GIS, terrain data, survey information, and hydraulic modeling results to support project analyses.
• Coordinate with engineers, planners, GIS specialists, environmental scientists, surveyors, and other project team members.
• Participate in field investigations, site visits, and data collection efforts as needed.
• Support project managers in scope development, budgeting, scheduling, and resource planning.
• Manage individual project tasks and workstreams, including monitoring budgets, schedules, deliverable progress, and quality expectations.
• Lead coordination efforts with clients, regulatory agencies, subcontractors, and internal project teams, as appropriate for the assignment.
• Facilitate project meetings, document action items, and track progress toward project milestones.
• Provide technical guidance and mentoring to junior engineers and EITs.
• Support proposal development, technical approaches, level-of-effort estimates, and business development activities.
• Contribute to maintaining high standards of technical quality, innovation, and client service.
• Perform other duties of a similar nature and level as assigned.

Your Capabilities and Credentials

• Strong understanding of hydrology, hydraulics, watershed processes, floodplain management, and water resources engineering principles.
• Experience developing and applying hydrologic and hydraulic models, including HEC-RAS and HEC-HMS.
• Proficiency with ArcGIS and geospatial analysis.
• Experience working with LiDAR, survey data, terrain development, and hydraulic model inputs.
• Familiarity with FEMA, USACE, TWDB, TxDOT, county, municipal, and other regulatory requirements is preferred.
• Strong project coordination and organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple assignments concurrently.
• Demonstrated ability to communicate effectively with clients, regulatory agencies, project stakeholders, and multidisciplinary teams.
• Ability to work independently while collaborating effectively within a team environment.
• Strong technical writing, presentation, and verbal communication skills.
• Commitment to client satisfaction and the delivery of high-quality work products.
• Experience with programming, automation, or data analysis tools such as Python is a plus.

Education and Experience

• Bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering, Water Resources Engineering, Environmental Engineering, or a related discipline from an accredited university.
• Master's degree in Water Resources Engineering or a related field preferred.
• Professional Engineer (PE) license preferred. Engineer-in-Training (EIT) certification with ability to obtain PE licensure within 1 year will also be considered.
• Minimum of 3-6 years of experience in hydrologic, hydraulic, stormwater, floodplain, watershed, or related water resources engineering projects.
• Experience supporting project delivery for municipal, county, state, regional, or federal clients preferred.
• Valid driver's license preferred for project-related site visits and field activities.

Typical office environment working with computers and working at a desk for long periods of time. Field work may include exposure to the elements including inclement weather.

This description is not a comprehensive listing of activities, duties, or responsibilities that may be required of the employee and other duties, responsibilities, and activities may be assigned or may be changed at any time with or without notice.

Pay Transparency: In compliance with pay transparency laws, pay ranges are provided for positions in locations where required. Please note, the final agreed upon compensation is based on individual education, qualifications, experience, and work location. At Stantec certain roles are bonus eligible. Actual compensation for part-time roles will be pro-rated based on the agreed number of working hours per week.

Benefits Summary: Regular full-time and part-time employees (working at least 20 hours per week) have access to medical, dental, and vision plans, a wellness program, health saving accounts, flexible spending accounts, 401(k) plan, employee stock purchase program, life and accidental death & dismemberment (AD&D) insurance, short-term/long-term disability plans, emergency travel benefits, tuition reimbursement, professional membership fee coverage and paid family leave. Regular full-time and part-time employees will receive ten paid holidays in each calendar year. In addition, employees will be eligible to accrue vacation between 10 and 20 days per year and eligible for paid sick leave (and if more generous, in accordance with state and local law).

Temporary/casual employees have access to 401(k) plans, employee stock purchase program, and paid leave, in accordance with state and local law.

The benefits information listed above may not apply to union positions because benefits for such positions are governed by applicable collective bargaining agreements

Primary Location: United States | TX | Austin
Organization: BC-1773 Water-US Gulf
Employee Status: Regular
Business Justification: New Position
Travel: No
Schedule: Full time
Job Posting: 10/08/2026 03:08:31
Req ID: 1007136