Water/Wastewater EIT / Designer
HDR
About the Role
As a Water EIT/Designer at HDR, you will contribute to shaping how communities manage water resources for future generations. Your work will involve delivering safe drinking water, treating wastewater, developing sustainable water supplies, and protecting lives and property through flood control.
Key Responsibilities
- Create planning level, preliminary, and detailed designs of water-focused systems under instruction.
- Prepare deliverables for water or water resources focused systems.
- Write specifications, analysis, modeling, and study-level reports.
- Determine appropriate design methods and equipment sizing and selection.
- Work directly with clients.
- Perform as part of a quality assurance team and conduct quality control reviews of completed deliverables.
- Perform other duties as needed.
Requirements & Tech Stack
- Bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering or equivalent field.
- Interest or experience analyzing and designing water-focused systems.
- Experience with production, simulation, and automation tools such as BIM systems and numerical modeling platforms.
- Microsoft Office experience.
- Ability to work in a team environment.
- Commitment to being an active participant of our employee-owned culture.
Preferred Qualifications
- Master's degree in Civil or Environmental Engineering (or related field).
- Engineer in Training (EIT) certificate.
- Water/Wastewater/Water resources project experience, with a focus on:
- Water/wastewater treatment
- Pump stations and pipelines
- Water resources/stormwater
- Experience in hydrology and hydraulics applications, including the design and analysis of:
- Stormwater management facilities
- Storm sewers
- Watersheds
- Knowledge and experience in watershed management, including:
- Erosion control
- Water quality
- Drainage collection system design
- Stormwater BMP design
- Natural channel design
- Demonstrated experience in hydrologic/hydraulic modeling for storm, sanitary, and water distribution systems using software such as HEC-RAS, HEC-HMS, SWMM, HydraFlow, or other similar models.
- Candidates without their EIT will be placed into a Design Coordinator job code and will be expected to obtain their EIT for career progression.
- Local candidates preferred.