WGI

Senior Drainage Engineer

WGI$85K — $110K *
Tampa, FL 33647In-Person
Real Estate & Construction
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's Degree in engineering from an accredited four-year college
  • Florida Professional Engineering Registration
  • Proficiency in advanced Microstation/GEOPAK processes
  • Experience with ICPR/Stormwise and/or SWMM, ASAD, and HEC-RAS
  • Strong knowledge of FDOT plans preparation criteria and design standards
  • Excellent verbal communication and technical writing skills

Responsibilities

  • Serve as the Engineer of Record for projects, ensuring compliance with design standards and regulatory requirements
  • Lead and mentor junior engineers, providing technical guidance and support
  • Act as a client-facing representative, managing relationships and serving as the primary point of contact
  • Assist Project Manager with project administrative duties
  • Participate in business development activities by assisting in technical proposals and presentations
  • Oversee/produce engineering designs including storm sewer layouts and storm-water management designs
  • Perform internal Quality Control to ensure designs and calculations are complete and accurate

Benefits

  • Competitive salary
  • Outstanding work environment
  • Opportunity for professional growth and development
Full Job Description
Overview

We are seeking a Senior Drainage Engineer (PE) with 8+ years of professional experience to be part of our Transportation Division in our West Palm Beach and Orlando, Tampa, Fl offices.

This senior level position requires broad knowledge and skills in Drainage and Roadway Drainage. A strong background in Florida DOT design policies and procedures is preferred. The candidate will work in a fast-paced engineering environment where projects may be derived from a number of delivery methods including conventional publicly bid projects and design build. Over the last two decades, WGI has delivered a variety of transportation projects including some of the largest and most complex interstate projects in the state of Florida. As a firm, we continue to grow and look forward to the opportunity to add engineers who are eager to work on exciting projects and grow professionally, themselves.

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Responsibilities

  • Serve as the Engineer of Record for projects, ensuring compliance with design standards and regulatory requirements.
  • Lead and mentor junior engineers, providing technical guidance, training, and support for professional development.
  • Act as a client-facing representative, managing relationships and serving as the primary point of contact
  • Assist Project Manager in a variety of project administrative duties
  • Participate in business development activities, assisting in the creation of letters of response and technical proposals/presentations
  • Oversee/produce engineering designs including project research, storm sewer layouts, storm-water management designs, plans preparation and detail designs
  • Oversee the creation of engineering documents including permit packages and design documentation reports
  • Coordinate plans, calculations and specifications amongst multi-discipline engineering teams
  • Perform internal Quality Control to ensure designs, plans and calculations are complete and accurate
  • Ability to conduct hydrologic and hydraulic (H&H) modeling is a plus.


Qualifications

  • Bachelor's Degree in engineering from an accredited four-year college
  • Florida Professional Engineering Registration
  • Proficiency in advanced Microstation/GEOPAK processes
  • 3D modeling a plus
  • Experience with ICPR/Stormwise and /or SWMM, ASAD, and HEC-RAS
  • Strong knowledge of FDOT plans preparation criteria and design standards
  • Experience with FDOT preferred
  • Knowledge of and ability to coordinate with other transportation disciplines and ability
  • Strong work ethic and ability to organize and manage small to medium sized engineering design teams
  • Excellent verbal communication and technical writing skills
  • Ability to train and mentor entry level staff
  • Oversight and managing staff


Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the U.S. on a full-time basis. We are unable to sponsor or take over the sponsorship of employment visas.

Physical Demands

The physical demands are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. Work is performed in an office setting. Hand-eye coordination is necessary to operate a computer, keyboard and mouse. Use of a telephone headset will allow for virtual communication with team members through Zoom and/or Microsoft Teams. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is often required to sit for prolonged periods, use hands/fingers to handle, feel or operate objects, tools or controls and reach with hands and arms, speak and hear. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.

If you have what it takes to join our growing organization and want to be part of a dedicated team, please apply today. In return, WGI provides a competitive salary and an outstanding work environment.

WGI does not accept any unsolicited resumes. Should any 3rd party agency or recruiter forward or submit any resume(s) to a WGI associate without a pre-existing contractual agreement, the submitted resume(s) will be deemed the property of WGI and no placement fee will be provided.

All agencies and vendors are required to have a signed WGI vendor agreement form the WGI Chief HR Officer permitting them to work directly through our Talent Acquisition team. Obtaining this signed vendor agreement is the only way you will receive payment. Verbal or written commitments from any other member of our staff will not be binding.

All third-part recruiting/supplemental staffing agencies are expected to familiarize themselves and abide by this policy.

About WGI

As a multidisciplinary consulting firm, WGI has eight offices throughout Florida and specializes in the following disciplines: Land Development/Municipal Engineering, Transportation Engineering, Surveying and Mapping, Subsurface Utility Engineering, Structures, Water Resources, Landscape Architecture, Environmental Sciences, Architecture, Land Planning, and Creative Services. The Zweig Group ranked WGI #4 on its 2017 Hot Firms list and #23 on the 2017 Best Firms to Work For list.

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