Water Resources Engineer

Overview

As a Water Resource Engineer at Stantec, you contribute to environmental and water resources projects across a multidisciplinary team. You’ll apply civil and environmental engineering principles to assess and design aquatic habitats, hydraulics, and flood resilience. You’ll collaborate with scientists and engineers to deliver habitat restoration and river-focused solutions that support communities and ecosystems. This role offers opportunities to shape projects from dam removal to stream restoration in a mission-driven, collaborative environment.

Pay / Benefits

• medical, dental, and vision plans
• wellness program
• 401(k) plan
• employee stock purchase program
• paid holidays
• vacation, paid sick leave, and paid family leave

Responsibilities

• Support aquatic habitat restoration projects through desktop and field studies
• Contribute to dam removal, culvert replacement, and bridge hydraulics/ scour analyses
• Perform hydrologic and hydraulic modeling and related documentation
• Assess flood risk and coastal resilience considerations
• Draft engineering design materials and reports
• Collaborate with cross-disciplinary teams within Environment Services
• Apply ESRI ArcGIS and AutoCAD/Civil 3D in project work

Key requirements

• BS or MS in civil or environmental engineering
• Professional Engineer license required (or ability to obtain in MA and New England within 3 months)
• 10+ years of experience in hydraulics and river mechanics
• Strong writing and verbal communication skills
• Experience with civil engineering software (AutoCAD, Civil 3D, ArcGIS)
• Fieldwork capability and attention to detail
• Knowledge of surface water hydrology and hydraulics

• strong written and verbal communication
• collaboration and teamwork
• creative application of technical knowledge
• Hydraulics and river mechanics
• Hydrologic modeling
• AutoCAD

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