Water Planning Engineer

Company:  Herrera Environmental Consultants
Location: Seattle
Closing Date: 07/11/2024
Hours: Full Time
Type: Permanent
Job Requirements / Description

We are HerreraEnvision 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 40 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 ValuesTreat 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 OpportunityAre you interested in applying your engineering skills to plan, design, and implement infrastructure strategies (e.g., green infrastructure, nature-based solutions) to improve water quality and ecosystem health? Do you like working as part of integrated, collaborative teams with ecologists, landscape architects, and scientists to solve complex problems in sustainable and equitable ways? Are you looking for an opportunity to help communities create and expand programs to improve watershed and neighborhood resilience? If so, we'd love to hear from you.As a Water Planning Engineer, you will join a team of experienced, creative, and mission driven engineers, scientists, landscape architects, planners, biologists, and other experts working to solve a variety of environmental issues from watershed- to site-scales and from urban to rural realms. We are looking for someone who has a strong desire to continually learn, loves to innovate and creatively problem solve, works well within a team, desires to work and grow with other disciplines, and will add to our passionate group dynamic.In this role we will count on you to:Support planning of stormwater infrastructure from distributed green stormwater infrastructure (GSI) to centralized regional treatmentSupport watershed planning to improve water quality and ecosystem healthSupport municipal program planning, including policy and guidance developmentSupport climate vulnerability assessments and adaptation planningProduce planning, conceptual design, and technical documentsReview documents, synthesize information, and effectively communicate with both internal and external team members and partnersLearn to manage and prioritize multiple tasks and projectsBring your own knowledge, experiences, and inspirations to make our team betterMinimum QualificationsEducation, Experience, & Licensure/CertificationsBachelor's and/or master's degree in civil, environmental, or water resources engineering0 to 3 years of relevant experience in water planningKnowledge, Skills, & AbilitiesExperience with and/or interest in planning and/or design of GSI and other stormwater management infrastruc

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