Job Description

What You Will Help Us Build: If you are a Senior Water Resources leader who understands Colorado's transportation, municipal, floodplain, stormwater, and water quality environment, this role offers an opportunity to make a visible impact. JMT is growing its Water Resources leadership capacity in Colorado, and we are looking for a leader who can bring CDOT experience, local agency knowledge, and strong technical judgment to help expand our Denver-area practice with purpose.

Position Summary: The Water Resources Section Head will lead staff, operations, client engagement, and delivery oversight for JMT's Colorado Water Resources practice. This position is responsible for developing people, managing workload and financial performance, supporting business development, and providing senior technical guidance across drainage, stormwater, floodplain, H&H, and water quality services for CDOT, municipal, county, and regional clients.

Essential Functions and Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and develop Water Resources staff, including performance management, staffing needs, and career growth

• Manage section operations, including workload planning, utilization, budgets, backlog, staffing forecasts, and financial performance

• Support strategic growth planning for the Water Resources practice in coordination with regional and office leadership

• Strengthen client relationships and support business development with CDOT, Denver-area municipalities, counties, flood control, transportation, and stormwater clients

• Lead or support pursuit strategy, proposals, interviews, and client presentations

• Provide senior technical leadership and quality oversight for drainage, hydrologic and hydraulic, stormwater, floodplain, and water quality projects

• Advise project managers and technical staff on complex delivery, risk management, staffing, and client-service decisions

• Promote collaboration across offices and disciplines to deliver consistent, high-quality solutions

Nonessential Functions and Responsibilities

• Perform other related duties as assigned

Required Experience

• Bachelor's degree in civil engineering, water resources engineering, or a related field from an accredited program

• Colorado Professional Engineer license or the ability to obtain Colorado licensure within 6 months of hire

• 10+ years of progressively responsible water resources experience

• Experience in CDOT drainage design for transportation projects, including hydrologic and hydraulic analysis, drainage reports, stormwater management, and PS&E delivery

• Familiar with CDOT drainage criteria, Denver-area municipal requirements, Mile High Flood District standards, and local city and county review processes

• Experience with OpenRoads Designer production and OpenRoads Drainage and Utilities modeling

• Experience with HEC-RAS 1D and 2D roadway drainage applications and stormwater management design

• Experience in HEC-HMS software

• Demonstrated experience leading, supervising, mentoring, or developing technical staff

• Experience managing operations, project delivery, financial performance, workload planning, and client expectations

• Experience with business development, proposal development, client coordination, and pursuit strategy

• Strong leadership, communication, organizational, and decision-making skills

Qualifications Preferred

• Experience as responsible drainage task lead for complex H&H schematic and PS&E projects involving modeling, design, and drainage reports

• Established client relationships with CDOT, Denver-area municipalities, counties, Mile High Flood District, or similar Colorado regional clients

• 2-D HEC-RAS, SWMM, ARC-GIS experience

• Experience with CDOT, municipal, county, flood control, transportation, or stormwater clients in Colorado or similar mountain/front range markets

• Technical background in drainage design, H&H modeling, floodplain studies, stormwater management, and water quality compliance

• Experience leading multidisciplinary teams across multiple offices or regions

• Certified Floodplain Manager certification or other relevant technical certification

Working Conditions

Work is performed within a general office environment. Work is generally sedentary in nature, but may require occasional standing and walking. Lighting and temperature are adequate and there are no hazardous or unpleasant conditions caused by noise, dust, etc. within the office environment.