Senior Transportation Drainage Engineer — Hybrid & Innovative

Dillon Consulting Limited; Guelph; Hybrid; CAD 104,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Employee share purchase plan

Hybrid work arrangements

Comprehensive health benefits

Generous retirement savings plan

Student loan repayment assistance

Job summary

Dillon Consulting Limited seeks a Senior Transportation Drainage Engineer to lead complex highway drainage and water resource projects across Canada. You will wield hydrologic and hydraulic modeling, coordinate cross‑discipline teams, and deliver technically sound design for public and private sector clients.

You will mentor junior staff, contribute to business development, and advance innovative drainage solutions using tools like HEC-RAS, HEC-HMS, PCSWMM, and InfoWorks ICM.

Qualifications

• Undergraduate degree in civil or environmental engineering or an applicable technical degree.
• Eligibility to hold a valid license from the relevant provincial Professional Engineering Association.
• 15+ years of relevant experience with a proven track record in large-scale provincial or municipal highway infrastructure projects.
• 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.

Responsibilities

• 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 modeling for transportation corridors, including the design of watercourse crossing culverts, bridge hydraulics, roadway culverts, ditching, integrated storm sewers, and stormwater management systems.
• Conduct hydrologic and hydraulic modeling and analysis using tools such as HEC-RAS, HEC-HMS, PCSWMM, InfoWorks ICM, and Visual OTTHYMO.
• Provide technical input for complex or unique assignments and support multidisciplinary projects or programs.
• Direct, coordinate, and supervise water resources related activities of engineering and design groups from both 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 simulation results 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.
• Execute project components, including project planning, technical evaluations, studies, preliminary design, final design, and construction services.
• Analyze alternatives, methods of implementation, and cost analyses.
• Fulfill project plans in accordance with established scopes of work, budgets, and schedules to deliver high-quality results.
• Develop new or novel concepts and recommend major design changes.
• Provide technical direction, training recommendations, coaching, and mentoring to junior staff.
• Drive technical innovation by pioneering advanced modeling techniques, integrating emerging climate resilience strategies, and deploying cutting-edge digital workflows.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Business development

Client relationship management

Mentoring junior staff

Education

Civil or environmental engineering degree

Professional Engineer license

Tools

HEC-RAS

HEC-HMS

PCSWMM

InfoWorks ICM

Visual OTTHYMO

Job description

Dillon Consulting Limited seeks a Senior Transportation Drainage Engineer to lead complex highway drainage and water resource projects across Canada. You will wield hydrologic and hydraulic modeling, coordinate cross‑discipline teams, and deliver technically sound design for public and private sector clients.

You will mentor junior staff, contribute to business development, and advance innovative drainage solutions using tools like HEC-RAS, HEC-HMS, PCSWMM, and InfoWorks ICM.