Stormwater Design Engineer

Herrera Environmental Consultants, Inc.; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 77,000 - 98,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

ESOP

401(k) retirement plan

Paid vacation

Volunteer time

Professional development allowance

Transit benefit

Job summary

Herrera Environmental Consultants, Inc. is seeking a Stormwater Design Engineer to join a multidisciplinary team delivering high‑impact projects.

You will design stormwater facilities, green infrastructure, and related civil works while collaborating with ecologists, landscape architects, and scientists across urban and watershed scales. The role emphasizes hydrologic/hydraulic modeling, reporting, and coordination on multi‑discipline teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in civil or environmental engineering mandatory.
• Engineer-In-Training (EIT) certificate or ability to obtain within 6 months of hire.
• Experience with stormwater infrastructure planning and design.
• Experience with plans, specs, and cost estimates for public/private stormwater facilities.
• Experience with hydraulic and hydrologic stormwater modeling.

Responsibilities

• Assist in planning and design of small- and large-scale stormwater facilities and retrofits.
• Assist in planning and design of green infrastructure and community amenities.
• Assist civil site development engineering for parks, trails, campuses, and open spaces.
• Prepare plans, specs, cost estimates, and technical reports for stormwater projects.
• Perform hydrologic/hydraulic model simulations for flow control and water quality.

Skills

Team collaboration

Clear communication

Organizational skills

Sustainable solutions

Education

Bachelor's degree in civil/environmental engineering

Engineer-In-Training (EIT) certificate

Tools

AutoCAD/Civil3D

Bluebeam PDF

SWMM

Job description

We are Herrera

Envision yourself at a growing, employee‑owned company that inspires and empowers you to deliver your best performance while making a difference in the world. We are Herrera, a science, planning, and design consulting firm dedicated to working with clients to develop holistic solutions that provide social and environmental benefit. We protect the environment every day by providing a diverse range of consulting services to cities, counties, state and federal agencies, Tribes, non‑profits, and private clients throughout Washington, Oregon, California, Montana, Wyoming, Alaska, and western Canada. For over 45 years, Herrera has cultivated a collaborative, caring, and values‑driven culture that empowers our employee‑owners to achieve excellence while ensuring we have fun along the way. By providing our employee‑owners with the autonomy to pursue their professional interests and through encouraging them to grow, we benefit from high employee‑owner retention that contributes to our longstanding partnerships with clients.

Our Values

Treat everyone with respect and dignity, always. Insist on integrity, objectivity, and social and environmental ethics in our work. Act as stewards of the environment upon which we depend. Research and outreach, learn and teach. Employee owners, employee leaders.

Your Opportunity

Are you interested in applying your engineering skills to design stormwater infrastructure that improves water quality and supports communities? Do you like working as part of integrated design teams with ecologists, landscape architects, and scientists to design high‑performance projects in sensitive ecological settings? Are you looking for an opportunity to grow your design experience on complex and large‑scale design projects? Then this role is for you! As a Stormwater Design Engineer, you will join a team of experienced, creative, and mission driven engineers, scientists, landscape architects, planners, biologists, and other experts working on a variety of environmental projects from the urban realm to the upper watershed.

In this role we will count on you to:

• Assist with the planning and design of small- and large‑scale stormwater facilities and stormwater infrastructure retrofits


• Assist with the planning and design of green infrastructure and community amenities


• Assist with the civil site development engineering design for parks, trails, campuses, and open spaces


• Assist with the production of plans, specifications, cost estimates, and technical reports for stormwater infrastructure projects


• Perform hydrologic and hydraulic stormwater model simulations to design flow control, water quality, and conveyance infrastructure


• Prepare stormwater management reports and technical memoranda

Minimum Requirements

Education, Experience, & Licensure/Certifications

• Bachelor's degree in civil or environmental engineering


• Engineer-In-Training (EIT) Certificate, or ability to obtain within 6 months of hire


• Experience with and/or interest in planning and design of stormwater infrastructure


• Experience with and/or interest in preparing plans, specifications, and cost estimate packages along with related technical reports for public and/or private stormwater management facilities and/or site development civil engineering projects


• Experience with and/or interest with hydraulic and hydrologic stormwater modeling

Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities

• Strong team collaboration, clear written and verbal communication abilities, and excellent organization and task management skills


• A passion for developing sustainable solutions to complex stormwater problems for public and private clients


• Ability to interact with multidisciplinary teams, and juggle multiple tasks

Preferred Qualifications

• Construction observation or inspection experience on civil projects


• Experience designing green stormwater infrastructure (GSI)


• Experience developing plans for construction


• Experience working with multidisciplinary teams


• Experience with stormwater modeling software (WWHM, MGSFlood, SWMM)


• Experience with AutoCAD/Civil3D drafting software


• Experience with Bluebeam PDF editing software

Compensation & Benefits

This position is salaried and exempt from overtime; the annual salary rangeis$77,300 - $97,900

• Medical/prescription drug/dental/vision insurance for employees and dependents; employees covered at no cost on base plan with buy-up options available; company contribution for dependents


• Section 125 flexible benefits plans – healthcare and dependent care


• Company-paid life insurance for employees; option to purchase additional life insurance for employees and dependents at employees’ expense


• Company-paid long term disability insurance for employees; option to purchase short-term disability insurance at employees’ expense


• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)


• Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP)


• 401(k) retirement plan


• Paid vacation, accrued bi-weekly, equivalent to 10 days per year for a 40 hour/week employee and prorated for employees working 24-39 hours/week


• Paid sick leave, accrued bi-weekly, equivalent to 10 days per year for a 40-hour/week employee and prorated for employees working 24-39 hours per week


• Flexible paid holidays (10)


• Paid volunteer time (8 hours annually)


• Company-paid annual membership dues for one professional organization


• Professional development / continuing education allowance


• Discretionary annual bonus


• Transit benefit

To learn more, please visit our website at: .Reliable internet service is required for remote work, with acceptable types including cable, DSL, or fiber and minimum speeds of 30 Mbps download and 5 Mbps upload. A wired Ethernet connection is strongly preferred. Dial-up, satellite, wireless bridges, range extenders, and outdated or weak Wi‑Fi connections are not supported.

We Are Committed to Equal Opportunity, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

At Herrera, we celebrate our differences as much as our similarities. We know the best outcomes come from interdisciplinary, diverse, and inclusive teams. Our values are ever-present in the people, culture, and work we do, they are not just a few sentences on our website. We treat people with respect and act with integrity and objectivity. Our employment decisions are based on knowledge, skills, and abilities, and have nothing to do with your race, color, gender, age, religion, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, medical history, reproductive health decisions, political ideology, veteran status, or physical appearance. As an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer, we encourage women, minorities, veterans, disabled veterans, and individuals with disabilities to apply for our open positions. We are also a member of E-Verify. To learn more about E-Verify, read the E-Verify Notice and the Right to Work Notice.