Professional Engineer - Water/Drainage

Department: Community Infrastructure – Las Vegas, NV

About the role

Serve as a project engineer on multi-discipline water resources projects, owning scope, schedule, budget, quality, and risk from planning through construction support while delivering client value and stakeholder satisfaction.

Responsibilities

• Project Planning & Work Plans: Develop project execution plans, scopes of work, and phase plans; tailor delivery approach (predictive, agile/hybrid) to context while focusing on value delivery and outcomes.
• Scope, Schedule, and Budget Control: Establish baselines; monitor progress; apply change management; maintain earned value/cost/schedule reporting appropriate to project scale. Follow Company change management procedures and delegation of authority (DOA).
• Risk & Opportunity Management: Identify, analyze (qualitative/quantitative), respond to, and monitor risks; proactively escalate issues and capture opportunities.
• Stakeholder & Client Engagement: Map stakeholders; maintain transparent communications; lead meetings and presentations; manage expectations and decisions.
• Quality Management (QA/QC): Plan and execute design reviews, interdisciplinary checks, model reviews, and constructability reviews; maintain document control and versioning.
• Resource & Subconsultant Management: Forecast and allocate staff; coordinate multi-office workshare; manage subconsultant scopes, deliverables, and invoices.
• Health, Safety, and Environmental Stewardship: Integrate safety-by-design and environmental considerations; uphold company and client procedures.
• Commercial Management: Prepare fee proposals; track budgets; support invoicing and cash flow; manage contract compliance and modifications.
• Documentation & Lessons Learned: Maintain decision logs; archive calculations and correspondence; conduct closeout, performance review, and lessons-learned sessions.
• Perform services with the ordinary skill and care of a reasonably prudent Professional Engineer practicing under similar circumstances at the same time and in the same or similar locality; perfection is not implied.
• Hold paramount the safety, health, and welfare of the public; practice only within areas of competence; act as a faithful agent to the client; maintain honesty and integrity in all communications.
• Comply with applicable laws, codes, standards, and permitting requirements; identify constraints and assumptions transparently.
• Avoid expanding obligations beyond insurable standard-of-care language unless expressly negotiated (e.g., “best,” “highest,” or “ensure” may inadvertently elevate liability).
• Document key decisions, design bases, and limitations (including data gaps and uncertainties such as those arising from climate, geotechnical, or hydrologic variability).
• Follow the firm’s Quality Management Plan (QMP) plan checklists and hold-gates for calculations, models, drawings, and specifications; incorporate independent technical reviews and interdisciplinary coordination.
• Ensure traceability of inputs, assumptions, and revisions; manage document control per project standards.
• Pursue continuous improvement via audits, corrective actions, and client feedback; use metrics to assess process effectiveness.
• Plan, design, and analyze water transmission, storage, and distribution systems; wastewater collection systems; and pump stations.
• Perform hydrologic and hydraulic analyses; prepare drainage studies, master plans, and feasibility reports.
• Develop plans, specifications, and engineer’s estimates; support permitting across jurisdictions.
• Build and calibrate system and network models; evaluate alternatives; support value engineering and constructability reviews.
• Coordinate field data collection, condition assessments, and utility investigations.
• Lead and mentor other team members, engineers and designers; foster collaborative, inclusive teams across disciplines and offices.
• Coordinate with clients, agencies, and subconsultants; support pursuit efforts and proposals, including scopes, schedules, budgets, and presentations.

Skills

• AutoCAD Civil 3D
• WaterCAD/WaterGEMS
• InfoWater
• EPANET
• SewerGEMS/SWMM
• HEC-HMS
• HEC-RAS (1D/2D)
• Two-dimensional overland flow tools (e.g., SRH-2D, FLO-2D)

Requirements

• BS or MS in Civil Engineering from an accredited program.
• Registered Professional Engineer (PE) required.
• 2–4+ years of experience in water systems, wastewater collection, or hydraulics/hydrology design; experience leading small teams is desirable.
• Strong communication, organization, and client service skills; proven record of meeting deadlines and budgets.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance
• Generous paid time off
• 401(k): 50% match of contribution up to 6%
• Professional development opportunities including in-house training
• Paid professional organization membership and professional licensure

Pay

$100,000 - $150,000 / year