Senior Climate Resilience Engineer / Planner

Your Opportunity

Are you passionate about helping communities and organizations prepare for climate change and build long term resilience? Do you enjoy working across disciplines to develop innovative, practical solutions to complex environmental and infrastructure challenges? Then this role is for you!

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.

About the Role

This role supports a wide variety of meaningful projects related to climate vulnerability assessment, adaptation planning, watershed resilience, stormwater management, ecological restoration, and sustainable community development.

Responsibilities

• Lead or support climate adaptation and resilience planning efforts
• Conduct vulnerability assessments, risk analyses, and adaptation planning
• Collaborate with stormwater, restoration, sustainable development, and geospatial teams
• Support proposals, project scoping, and business development efforts
• Build and maintain relationships with clients, agency partners, and collaborators
• Grow companywide climate-related work and support strategic initiatives
• Manage projects, budgets, and schedules

Requirements

• Minimum qualifications including education, experience, and licenses/certifications
• Knowledge, skills, and abilities required for the role

Qualifications

• Advanced degree in engineering, planning, environmental science or related field (preferred)
• Experience working with public sector clients, Tribes, utilities, or community-based organizations (preferred)
• Familiarity with Pacific Northwest watersheds, regulatory requirements, and climate resilience challenges (preferred)
• Experience with grant writing, funding strategy, or implementation planning (preferred)
• Professional licensure or certifications relevant to the role (e.g., PE, CFM, PMP) (preferred)
• Proficiency in ArcGIS and hydraulic modeling software (preferred)

Benefits

We are proud to support our employee-owners by offering the following compensation and benefits:

• This position is salaried and exempt from overtime; the annual salary ranges by level are:
• Engineer IV: $118,500 - $159,700
• Engineer V: $139,100 - $180,300
• Planner IV: $103,000 - $144,200
• Planner V: $133,900 - $175,100
• Flexible hybrid work culture
• Medical/prescription drug/dental/vision insurance for employees and dependents; employees covered at no cost on base plan with buy-up options available; company contribution for dependents
• Section 125 flexible benefits plans – healthcare and dependent care
• Company-paid life insurance for employees; option to purchase additional life insurance for employees and dependents at employees’ expense
• Company-paid long term disability insurance for employees; option to purchase short-term disability insurance at employees’ expense
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) – we are 100% employee owned!
• 401(k) retirement plan
• Paid vacation, accrued bi-weekly, equivalent to 15 days per year for a 40 hour/week employee and prorated for employees working 24-39 hours/week
• Paid sick leave, accrued bi-weekly, equivalent to 10 days per year for a 40-hour/week employee and prorated for employees working 24-39 hours per week
• Paid volunteer time (8 hours annually)
• Company-paid annual membership dues for one professional organization
• Professional development / continuing education allowance
• Discretionary annual bonus
• Transit benefit