Senior Project Engineer

Key Responsibilities

• Lead remediation, reclamation, and environmental engineering projects
• Manage project budgets, schedules, deliverables, and client communications
• Develop technical reports, remedial designs, feasibility studies, and optimization evaluations
• Design and oversee environmental field investigations and monitoring programs
• Support mine waste, tailings management, closure, and reclamation projects
• Develop conceptual site models and support risk assessment activities
• Prepare design drawings, specifications, and construction documents
• Mentor junior staff and collaborate across multidisciplinary teams
• Support business development and cultivate client relationships

Required Qualifications

• B.S. in Civil, Environmental, Chemical, or Geological Engineering, or a related field
• 15+ years of relevant professional experience
• Demonstrated experience managing environmental or engineering projects or tasks
• Prior experience in all engineering stages of design-build projects, including feasibility studies, conceptual designs, development of construction drawings and specifications, engineering cost estimates, construction quality assurance, and record document development
• Strong technical writing, data analysis, verbal and graphic communication, and project management skills
• Field experience with sample collection and construction oversight
• Experience with site reclamation, remediation technologies, and environmental compliance
• Familiarity with state and federal environmental regulations (e.g., RCRA, CERCLA, NMED/NMAC, EPA) and risk-based criteria
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team

Preferred Qualifications

• Professional engineering licensure
• Master’s degree in engineering, hydrology, or a related field
• Experience with mining reclamation, groundwater remediation, soil vapor extraction, contaminated site investigations, or landfill design and permitting in the Southwest U.S.
• Experience with landfill construction QA/QC and certification, landfill gas management, drilling oversight, BMP selection, and SWPPP development
• Proficiency with AutoCAD Civil 3D for grading plans, utility design drawings, and sheet set management
• Knowledge of HEC-HMS, HEC-RAS, HELP, air quality regulations, and environmental permitting
• Experience with GIS tools and applications, SCADA, groundwater/surface water/vadose zone modeling, statistical methods, environmental chemistry, or contaminant fate and transport
• OHS 40-hour HAZWOPER certification and/or MSHA training

About INTERA & Our Benefits

INTERA is a Top Workplaces USA 2025 award winner! Founded in 1974, INTERA has grown into an international geosciences and engineering consulting firm that helps clients make informed business decisions, mitigate risk, and drive optimal outcomes in a multitude of industries. Building and sustaining a strong company culture is at the heart of INTERA’s practice of good stewardship. We strive to foster an environment where people love the work they do and the place they work because we believe that our employees are our most valuable asset.

As an employee-owned company, we are committed to investing in our people’s needs for security, health, and well-being with medical, dental, and vision insurance that includes a free health plan option for employee-only coverage, a 401(k) plan with employer match and a Student Debt Retirement Savings Program, paid parental leave – up to 12 weeks for birthing and non-birthing parents, group term life and accidental death and dismemberment insurance, short-term and long-term coverage – paid 100% by the company, paid holiday, at least 3 weeks of vacation per year, and sick time, opportunities for stock ownership, performance-based bonuses and award programs for technical paper publication and employee referrals, career coaching instead of performance evaluations, tuition reimbursement, financial assistance for professional licensure and registration, and one paid membership to a professional society, pet insurance, LegalShield, IDShield, and more.

These are some of the reasons why many of our employees have spent 10 to 25 years at INTERA. We love what we do, and it shows.