Highway/Roadway Engineer 6-Hydraulics

CDM Smith is a place where you can work on meaningful projects, shape your career, and collaborate with a supportive team. We offer a challenging, progressive, and inclusive work environment that fosters personal leadership, career growth, and development. Our goal is to provide a work environment that supports your success and well-being, along with opportunities to make a difference through diverse and impactful projects.

About the role

With general direction, you will lead and develop transportation-related engineering designs of moderate to high complexity for highway, roadway, and other infrastructure projects. This role focuses on serving as a technical leader in drainage, hydraulics, hydrology, and stormwater management while supporting a wide variety of transportation design projects across the country.

Responsibilities

• Lead the planning, analysis, and design of drainage, hydraulic, hydrologic, and stormwater management systems for transportation infrastructure projects.
• Develop and oversee large-scale transportation projects from preliminary engineering through final design, ensuring compliance with client objectives, project schedules, budgets, and quality standards.
• Prepare and review Erosion and Sediment Control Plans, National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permit submissions, drainage reports, hydraulic studies, and stormwater management documentation.
• Perform and oversee hydraulic and hydrologic modeling using industry-standard software, including HEC-RAS, GeoHEC-RAS, HEC-HMS, WinTR-55, HydroCAD, and PondPack.
• Utilize advanced computer-assisted design and drafting (CADD) 3D and 4D software and practices in support of transportation projects.
• Review engineering designs and deliverables for compliance with federal, state, and local regulations, as well as firm standards and quality requirements.
• Sign and seal engineering documents and provide final design approvals, as required.
• Conduct site reviews, field investigations, construction inspections, and engineering studies to verify design assumptions and project requirements.
• Update design criteria and project requirements based on regulatory changes, site conditions, and client needs.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary project teams, clients, agencies, and stakeholders throughout the project lifecycle.
• Support business development efforts by contributing to proposals, reviewing technical approaches, participating in interviews, and assisting in responses to Requests for Proposals (RFPs).
• Meet with existing and prospective clients to understand project needs and build long-term relationships.
• Contribute to the firm's technical knowledge management initiatives through white papers, technical documentation, presentations, and publication of technical papers.
• Represent the firm at industry conferences, professional organizations, and technical events to enhance the visibility of the firm's services and expertise.
• Provide technical leadership, guidance, and quality oversight to engineering and design staff.
• Mentor, train, and develop junior engineers and designers, helping to expand the firm's technical bench strength and future leadership pipeline.
• Lead project tasks and manage design staff from preliminary engineering through final design delivery.
• Foster professional growth through coaching, knowledge sharing, and hands-on project development opportunities.
• May supervise and direct the work of junior engineers and technical staff.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Civil, Transportation, or Structural Engineering or related discipline.
• Professional engineering (PE) license.
• 10 years of related experience.
• Domestic and/or international travel may be required (10% or less).
• Equivalent additional directly related experience will be considered in lieu of a degree.

Preferred Qualifications

• Strong background in drainage and hydraulic analysis, and stormwater management design.
• Experience preparing Erosion and Sediment Control and National Pollution Discharge Elimination System permit submissions.
• Experience in a minimum of five (5) projects completed within the past ten (10) years demonstrating a range of experience with hydraulic design/analysis. Two of the listed projects may have hydraulic reports reviewed by EGLE for compliance with the State of Michigan’s floodplain regulations (Part 31 of P.A. 451 of 1994, as amended).
• Experience working on MDOT and local agency project teams.
• Working knowledge of submission requirements for MDOT projects.
• Experience in task management leading design staff from preliminary design through final design.
• Expert knowledge of Hydraulic, Hydrology, and Stormwater analysis and design practices.
• Knowledge of computer-assisted design and drafting (CADD) 3D and 4D software and practices.

Preferred Software Experience

• HEC-RAS
• GeoHEC-RAS
• HEC-HMS
• WinTR-55
• HydroCAD
• PondPack

Pay

Pay range minimum: USD $100,214.00

Pay range maximum: USD $175,365.00

CDM Smith is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. This pay range is a good faith estimate representative of all experience levels for the geographic location assigned to the position. In addition to geographic location, a candidate’s salary is determined by several other factors including, but not limited to, the role, function and associated responsibilities, relevant work experience, skills, required certifications, and education/training.

All bonuses at CDM Smith are discretionary and may or may not apply to this position.