Water Resources Engineer — Floodplain & River Hydraulics

Stantec; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Stantec in Texas is seeking a Water Resources Engineer to join our Watershed & River Hydraulics team. You will work on flood risk management, watershed planning, drainage, and coastal resilience projects across Texas and North America, applying hydrologic and hydraulic analyses and multidisciplinary collaboration.

You will contribute technically while increasing responsibility for project coordination, client interaction, task management, and delivery, mentoring junior staff and supporting

Responsibilities

• Perform hydrologic and hydraulic analyses for watershed, riverine, floodplain management, and drainage projects.
• Develop and apply HEC-RAS 1D/2D, HEC-HMS, and other models to support planning and flood risk evaluations.
• Prepare technical memoranda, reports, floodplain studies, calculations, presentations, and client deliverables.
• Utilize GIS, terrain data, survey information, and modeling results to support analyses.
• Coordinate with engineers, planners, GIS specialists, environmental scientists, surveyors, and other team members.
• Support project managers in scope development, budgeting, scheduling, and resource planning.
• Lead coordination with clients, regulatory agencies, subcontractors, and internal teams.
• Provide mentoring to junior engineers and EITs.
• Support proposal development and business development activities.
• Maintain high standards of technical quality and client service.

Skills

Water resources engineering

Project coordination

Client interaction

Mentoring

Tools

HEC-RAS

HEC-HMS

GIS

Job description

Stantec in Texas is seeking a Water Resources Engineer to join our Watershed & River Hydraulics team. You will work on flood risk management, watershed planning, drainage, and coastal resilience projects across Texas and North America, applying hydrologic and hydraulic analyses and multidisciplinary collaboration.

You will contribute technically while increasing responsibility for project coordination, client interaction, task management, and delivery, mentoring junior staff and supporting