Senior Transportation Drainage Engineer

Dillon Consulting Limited

$104K — $150K *
Transportation
11 - 15 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Undergraduate degree in civil or environmental engineering or related field.
  • Professional Engineering license eligibility in the relevant province.
  • 15+ years' experience in large-scale transportation infrastructure projects, MTO experience is a plus.
  • Valid driver's license required.
  • Proficient with hydrology tools like HEC-RAS, HEC-HMS, and PCSWMM.
  • Strong grasp of drainage design standards at municipal and provincial levels.
  • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.

Responsibilities

  • Provide expert technical input for complex highway drainage projects.
  • Lead hydrologic and hydraulic modelling for transportation corridors.
  • Direct and supervise engineering activities related to water resources.
  • Interpret hydraulic simulations and assess system capacities.
  • Develop drainage and stormwater management infrastructure designs.
  • Contribute to business development through proposal preparation and client engagement.
  • Enhance the career development of junior staff through mentoring and guidance.

Benefits

  • Employee share purchase plan, promoting investment in the company's success and employee ownership.
  • Comprehensive health benefits and generous retirement savings plan.
  • Flexible working hours and hybrid work options to support work-life balance.
  • Learning and development opportunities focused on continuous growth.
  • Access to an Employee and Family Assistance Program for wellness support.
  • Wellness subsidy for fitness-related expenses.
Full Job Description
Overview

Your Opportunity Awaits

Dillon's Water Resources team is seeking a Senior Transportation Drainage Engineer to become an integral part of our multidisciplinary group of professionals. This is your chance to dive into exciting, new projects, delivering unparalleled client experiences and shaping the world around us. At Dillon, we operate as one cohesive team.

At Dillon, we operate as one team. This position is available in our Dillon Kingston, Windsor, London, Guelph, Hamilton, Oakville and North York offices.

Responsibilities

You'll be at the forefront of critical transportation projects, providing expert technical input and innovative solutions.

Technical Project Work and Project Management
  • Provide senior technical expertise for the delivery of complex highway drainage and transportation-related water resource projects for both public and private sector clients.
  • Lead hydrologic and hydraulic modelling for transportation corridors, including the design of watercourse crossing culverts and bridges hydraulics,roadway culverts, watercourse crossing culverts and bridges hydraulics, ditching, and integrated storm sewers, and stormwater management systems.
  • Conduct hydrologic and hydraulic modelling and analysis tasks utilizing software such as HEC-RAS, HEC-HMS, PCSWMM, InfoWorks ICM, and Visual OTTHYMO.
  • Provide technical input for complex or unique assignments.
  • Support multi-disciplinary projects or programs.
  • Direct, coordinate and supervise water resources related activities of engineering and design groups, both from a technical and functional standpoint.
  • Coordinate with cross-disciplines to identify and incorporate relevant data pertaining to hydrologic and hydraulic parameters, system connectivity, discharge points, project constraints, and implementation considerations.
  • Interpret results of simulations to assess capacity, identify system deficiencies, and evaluate improvement alternatives.
  • Apply monitored and statistical data to models to simulate return-period and continuous scenarios, and to calibrate and validate results.
  • Provide project engineering and technical expertise, calculations, and design input to various stormwater management and drainage systems.
  • Lead conceptual and detailed design of drainage and/or stormwater management infrastructure.
  • Undertake studies, assessments, modeling, preliminary and detailed design, cost estimates, specifications, and input to contract documents.
  • Project components include project planning, technical evaluations, studies, preliminary design, final design, and services during construction.
  • Study evaluations include the analysis of alternatives, methods of implementation, and cost analyses.
  • Fulfill project plans in accordance with established scopes of work, budgets, and schedules to execute high quality projects.
  • Develop new or novel concepts and approaches, and recommend major design changes.
  • Input to the career development of more junior staff, including technical direction, training recommendations, coaching and mentoring.
  • Drive technical innovation by pioneering advanced modeling techniques, integrating emerging climate resilience strategies into drainage designs, and deploying cutting-edge digital workflows to optimize infrastructure performance.

Business Development
  • Contribute to business development activities including leading the preparation of project proposals and presentations.
  • Engagement with our clients to identify potential opportunities and strategic priorities.

Learning & Development
  • Commit to self-development and ongoing learning to stay knowledgeable of industry best practices and advancements in drainage design.
  • Contribute to Dillon's corporate profile through active participation in professional associations and committees.
  • Contribute to the career advancement of junior staff, including technical direction, training recommendations, coaching and mentoring.


Qualifications

  • Undergraduate degree in civil or environmental engineering or applicable technical degree.
  • Eligible to hold valid a license from the relevant provincial Professional Engineering Association
  • 15+ years' relevant experience with a proven track record in large-scale provincial or municipal highway infrastructure projects. MTO experience will be considered an asset.
  • Valid driver's license.
  • Proficiency with water resources tools, such as Visual OTTHYMO, PCSWMM, and HEC-RAS.
  • Strong understanding of municipal and provincial drainage design standards.
  • Excellent communication, report writing, and interpersonal skills.
  • Ability to work both independently and in a collaborative team environment.
  • A self-motivated individual looking for advancement opportunities.
  • Excellent initiative and attention to detail.


Experience

  • Demonstrated success in leading and managing drainage design for major highway and transportation corridor developments.
  • Experience with analysis, design and construction administration.
  • Proficiency with the application of HEC-RAS, HEC-HMS, PCSWMM (1D & 2D), InfoWorks ICM and related computer models would be considered an asset.
  • Excellent communications, report writing, organization and interpersonal skills.
  • Ability to work independently and in a collaborative, team environment.
  • Excellent initiative and attention to detail.
  • Business development and proposal preparation and submission management.

Compensation

$104,000 - $150,000

Dillon is including the salary range that we in good faith believe may offer for this position. It will be dependent on the successful applicant's education, experience, and skills, in addition to internal equity and geographic region. Dillon reserves the right to pay outside of the posted range, contingent on factors unrelated to an applicant's gender or other status protected by provincial and/or federal law.

In addition, we offer:
  • Employee share purchase plan
    • Dillon is 100% employee owned and share ownership is open to all employees.
  • A competitive compensation package
    • Comprehensive health benefits
    • Generous retirement savings plan
    • Student loan repayment assistance with matching employer contributions
  • Flexible work hours and hybrid working options
    • Dillon values its staff and the contributions that are made each day and understands that work arrangements can differ based on personal needs and business needs. We are taking a trust-based approach to offer a variety of flexible and hybrid work options to help balance the competing demands of work and personal life.
  • Learning and Development opportunities
    • As a knowledge-based business, we use a composite approach to development including coaching to build the how, mentoring to share lessons, advising to round out perspectives, and co-creation of knowledge through internal learning opportunities.
  • Focus on Innovation
    • The ability to anticipate, examine, and adopt new and innovative solutions is a crucial driver for the continual and progressive advancement of our business performance. In our culture, people are empowered to reflect and question current practices and seek forward looking solutions to today's problems and tomorrow's opportunities.
  • Employee and Family Assistance program
    • A variety of EFAP tools and online resources to support well-being are available to all employees.
  • Goodlife Fitness Corporate Membership
    • Our employees can take advantage of reduced annual membership fees.
  • Wellness Subsidy
    • Our employees can take advantage of a wellness subsidy that can be put towards expenses for a variety of health and/or wellness related activities such as gym membership, purchase of home fitness equipment, yoga classes and dance classes.

Health & Safety at Dillon

Prospective employees are expected to fully align with Dillon's core commitment to Health & Safety. This includes active, ongoing engagement with our Health & Safety processes and platform, and the active, ongoing identification and reporting of health and safety hazards.

Technology enablement and the use of AI at Dillon

We invest in modern technologies to enable continuous improvement across the organization. Please be advised that Dillon Consulting utilizes artificial intelligence (AI) assisted tools to support parts of our recruitment process to increase efficiency and fairness. While AI supports this process, all hiring decisions are made by our human recruiting team. By applying, you acknowledge and consent to this use.

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