Lead Drainage Engineer

What Your Day Will Look Like:

As a Lead Drainage Engineer, you will serve as the technical leader for drainage and stormwater design efforts supporting transportation projects throughout Utah and the Mountain West. Working closely with roadway, structures, traffic, and environmental teams, you will lead the planning, analysis, and design of complex drainage infrastructure for highways, interchanges, bridges, and municipal transportation projects.

 

In this role, you will provide technical leadership for hydrologic and hydraulic analyses, drainage reports, drainage design memoranda, stormwater management facilities, culverts, channels, and closed conveyance systems. You will be responsible for developing design approaches, mentoring staff, overseeing quality reviews, and ensuring compliance with UDOT, local agency, FHWA, and regulatory requirements.

 

As a senior technical leader, you will play an important role in client relationships, project pursuits, project delivery, and the continued growth of Consor's transportation drainage practice in Utah. This position provides an opportunity to influence major infrastructure projects, develop younger engineers, and help shape the future of the Draper transportation team.

 

Projected Compensation: $145,000 - $190,000+ DOE. Compensation above this range may be considered for candidates whose experience and expertise significantly exceed the minimum requirements.

 

What You'll Do:

• Lead drainage design and technical delivery for transportation projects including highways, interchanges, bridges, and roadway reconstruction projects.
• Prepare and oversee hydrologic and hydraulic studies, drainage reports, drainage design memoranda, and stormwater management plans.
• Perform and review watershed analyses, floodplain evaluations, culvert analyses, storm sewer design, open channel modeling, detention basin design, and erosion control plans.
• Serve as the drainage technical lead and provide mentoring and guidance to junior engineers and designers.
• Coordinate closely with roadway, structures, traffic, environmental, utility, and construction teams.
• Interface directly with clients including UDOT, municipalities, counties, and other transportation agencies.
• Develop scopes of work, budgets, schedules, and staffing plans for drainage tasks and projects.
• Support proposal preparation, interviews, business development efforts, and client relationship management.
• Provide QA/QC review of drainage deliverables and ensure compliance with agency requirements and company standards.
• Support design-build and alternative delivery pursuits and transportation project delivery efforts.

What You'll Need:

• 10+ years of transportation drainage and stormwater design experience.
• Strong experience supporting UDOT, DOT, municipal, or transportation infrastructure projects.
• Advanced experience with hydrologic and hydraulic modeling software such as OpenRoads Drainage, HY-8, HEC-HMS, HEC-RAS, StormCAD, Civil 3D, or similar tools.
• Experience leading project teams and mentoring engineering staff.
• Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering or related discipline.
• Professional Engineer (PE) license.
• Strong communication, client management, and technical writing skills.
• Design-build or alternative delivery experience is a plus.

 

  This job operates between an office environment and some project site visits. Routinely requires the use of standard office equipment such as computers, phones and copy machines. May require occasional exposure to work environments that may include inclement weather, heat, humidity, noise, hazard, atmospheric conditions, and bodies of water, depending on project requirements.While performing the duties of this job, physical demands of the employee include frequent sitting, moving, standing, talking, hearing, and occasional balancing, stooping, kneeling, crouching, reaching, handling, grasping, and feeling. This job may occasionally require operating a company vehicle, and lifting, carrying, pushing, and pulling up to 35 lbs.

What BenefitsYoullEnjoy: 

 

We invest in us. Because our team members go above, below, and beyond the surface to care for our communities (inside and out), we do our best to take care of you by providing acomprehensive benefits package!Eligibility for some of the benefits outlined below is based on full-time work status; part-time and contingent positions are only eligible based on hours worked. If you have questions, contactcareers@consoreng.com.

• Career Growth & Development Tuition reimbursement program, paid professional training, major license achievement bonus, extensive on-demand learning center, and paid professional memberships.

• Work-LifeAlignmentIndustry-competitive PTO, seven paid holidays and two floating holidays, flexible work schedules, paid parental leave, and eligibility for hybrid and remote work options for some employees based on role responsibilities.

• Wellness Medical, dental and vision insurance, employeeassistanceprogram, fitness and wellness reimbursement, and HSA and FSA options.

• Life Employer-paid STD and LTD, employer-paid term life insurance, and retirement 401(k) with company match.

• Community Quarterly social events, paid group volunteering events, and employeenetworks and groups.

  

How Your Career Will Grow: 

 

We know career growth is not always linear or streamlined19s often dynamic. You may want to explore a management track, try a new technical track, or move laterally to reposition your skills and talents. No matter what level you join us at or how you want to shape your career, we want Consor to be a place where you can learn and grow. 

  

 

WhyYouLove Consor:  

 

Youexperience a culture where we share in our successes and support one another through challenges. Here, there are countless opportunities to explore your career path by working on projects that help you expand your potential and take your career to new heights! Join our diverse team of experts who live and work alongside client partners, providing thoughtful solutions to create inspiring communities together. Click here to learn more about Consor. 

 

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