What Your Day Will Look Like:As a Water Resources Engineer, you'll play a key role in analyzing, designing, and optimizing water-related infrastructure. Your day will involve performing hydraulic and hydrologic (H&H) analyses, modeling riverine and stormwater systems, and developing solutions for floodplain management, conveyance structures, and water quality improvements. You'll collaborate closely with multidisciplinary teams, applying industry-leading software to assess watershed behavior, design culverts, bridges, and detention systems, and ensure regulatory compliance. From conducting field investigations to preparing technical reports, you'll be engaged in meaningful projects that contribute to sustainable and resilient water resource solutions.
What You'll Do:- Conduct hydraulic and hydrologic modeling for rivers, stormwater systems, and floodplains.
- Develop hydrologic and hydraulic (H&H) models using various software programs (HEC-HMS, HEC-RAS, SWMM, StormCAD and similar software).
- Analyze watershed behavior, storm events, and infrastructure impacts.
- Design and evaluate culverts, bridges, detention basins, and water conveyance structures.
- Perform floodplain mapping and analysis for FEMA and local agencies.
- Support stormwater management and drainage studies, ensuring compliance with federal, state, and local regulations.
- Collaborate with civil engineers, environmental scientists, and project managers on multidisciplinary projects.
- Assist with preparing technical reports, design documents, and permitting applications.
- Conduct site visits and field investigations to collect hydrologic data and assess existing conditions.
What You'll Need:- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Civil Engineering, Water Resources Engineering, or related field.
- Minimum 4 years of experience in water resources engineering, with a focus on H&H analysis and stormwater system design.
- EIT certification required; PE license or ability to obtain is a plus.
- Proficiency in HEC-RAS, HEC-HMS, SWMM, MicroStation, OpenRoads, ArcGIS, and similar modeling tools.
- Strong understanding of hydraulics, hydrology, open channel flow, and stormwater management.
- Familiarity with FEMA floodplain regulations, local drainage criteria, and permitting requirements.
- Excellent technical writing and communication skills for reports and client interactions.
- This hybrid job operates between an office environment and a field environment and routinely requires the use of standard office equipment such as computers, phones and copy machines. May require occasional exposure to work environments that may include inclement weather, heat, humidity, noise, hazard, atmospheric conditions, and bodies of water, depending on project requirements.
- While performing the duties of this job, physical demands of the employee include frequent sitting, moving, standing, talking, hearing, and occasional balancing, stooping, kneeling, crouching, reaching, handling, grasping, and feeling. This job may occasionally require operating a company vehicle, and lifting, carrying, pushing, and pulling up to 35 lbs.
What Benefits You'll Enjoy: We invest in us. Because our team members go above, below, and beyond the surface to care for our communities (inside and out), we do our best to take care of you by providing a comprehensive benefits package! Eligibility for some of the benefits outlined below is based on full-time work status; part-time and contingent positions are only eligible based on hours worked. If you have questions, contact careers@consoreng.com.
- Career Growth & Development - Tuition reimbursement program, paid professional training, major license achievement bonus, extensive on-demand learning center, and paid professional memberships.
- Work-Life Alignment - Industry-competitive PTO, seven paid holidays and two floating holidays, flexible work schedules, paid parental leave, and eligibility for hybrid and remote work options for some employees based on role responsibilities.
- Wellness - Medical, dental and vision insurance, employee assistance program, fitness and wellness reimbursement, and HSA and FSA options.
- Life - Employer-paid STD and LTD, employer-paid term life insurance, and retirement 401(k) with company match.
- Community - Quarterly social events, paid group volunteering events, and employee resource groups.
How Your Career Will Grow: We know career growth is not always linear or streamlined-it's often squiggly. You may want to explore a management track, try a new technical track, or move laterally to reposition your skills and talents. No matter what level you join us at or how you want to shape your career, we want Consor to be a place where you can learn and grow.
Why You'll Love Consor: At Consor, you'll work with a network of water and transportation professionals who specialize in planning, engineering design, structural assessment, and construction services. Across geographies, you'll have access to the resources and nationwide expertise found in a large consulting firm, while experiencing a community feel at the local level. You'll experience a culture where we share in our successes and support one another through challenges. Here, there are countless opportunities to explore your career path by working on projects that help you expand your potential and take your career to new heights! Join our diverse team of experts who live and work alongside client partners, providing thoughtful solutions to create inspiring communities together.
How We Support Diversity: Consor welcomes and celebrates equality and diversity in the workplace. Throughout our teams and across leadership, Consor pursues an environment in which each employee and prospective employee is treated respectfully, valuing the uniqueness of individuals and differing perspectives and experiences. At the heart of this is ensuring employment practices at Consor provide and promote equal employment and development opportunity for all employees and prospective employees, in accordance with all local, state, and federal laws and regulations governing personnel activities. As such, Consor is an equal opportunity employer and pursues a program of affirmative action across its offices and worksites.
If you need more information or special assistance for persons with disabilities or limited English proficiency, contact Human Resources at 888-451-6822 ext. 55214. Persons with hearing and speech impairments can contact Consor by using the Virginia Relay Service, a toll-free telecommunication device for the deaf (TDD). Call 711 for TTY/TDD.
If any applicant believes they have been discriminated against or desires further information or assistance, contact us at 888-451-6822 ext. 55214.
Notice: The above job description is intended to relay a general sense of the position's responsibilities and expectations. It does not describe all tasks that may be assigned. As business demands change, the essential functions of this position may also change. The position requires the successful completion of applicable pre-employment substance screening and background checks.
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