Senior Civil Engineer

About the role

Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets. We are more than 34,000 people, in over 30 countries, dedicated to improving quality of life. Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds, together we can solve the world’s most complex challenges and deliver more impact together. Arcadis is seeking a highly experienced Senior Civil Engineer to join our Design Engineering team and play a key role in delivering complex, high-impact civil and environmental projects across North America. This hybrid-flexible opportunity may be based out of any Arcadis office in the Eastern US and is well suited for a senior practitioner who enjoys technical leadership, multidisciplinary collaboration, and mentoring the next generation of engineers. In this role, you will provide technical leadership for a growing portfolio of site development, reclamation, restoration, stormwater, and civil infrastructure projects. You will help guide projects from early planning and feasibility through design, permitting, construction support, and project closeout. This position offers the opportunity to lead challenging work involving large-scale earthwork and regrading, engineered cap and cover systems, environmental reclamation, road and culvert design, land development, drainage improvements, and stream and wetland restoration. The role is primarily office based, with periodic project-related travel for site visits, client meetings, field reviews, and construction support.

Responsibilities

• Lead civil engineering design efforts from proposal development and conceptual planning through final design and construction support.
• Serve as a technical lead and trusted advisor for project teams and clients, helping define design approaches, evaluate alternatives, manage technical risk, and deliver practical, constructible solutions.
• Review and interpret technical reports, maps, drawings, test results, aerial imagery, geotechnical information, hydrologic and hydraulic data, and other project-specific information needed to support civil design development.
• Evaluate applicable regulations, permitting requirements, and engineering standards to develop designs that are technically sound, compliant, and responsive to project objectives.
• Using 3D civil site design software such as Autodesk Civil 3D or similar platforms, lead development of grading plans, drainage layouts, earthwork optimization, civil details, and quantity estimates.
• Oversee drawing production, provide technical guidance to design staff, and review work products for quality, consistency, and constructability.
• During construction, respond to RFIs, review technical submittals, support contractor coordination, evaluate field conditions, and implement design revisions as needed.
• Lead hydrologic and hydraulic evaluations to support drainage design, flood mitigation, stormwater management, and permitting decisions.
• Prepare and review technical reports, design memoranda, construction specifications, calculations, opinions of probable construction cost, and permit-support documentation.
• Design stormwater best management practices, erosion and sediment control measures, infiltration systems, bioretention areas, filters, conveyance improvements, and related civil infrastructure in accordance with applicable agency requirements.
• Provide senior-level quality reviews of drawings, calculations, technical deliverables, and construction