Senior Stormwater Resilience Engineer

Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets.

We are more than 36,000 people, in over 70 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.

Role description: 

Arcadis is seeking a Senior Stormwater Resilience Engineer to join our growing team in Austin, TX! This is a lead role supporting the development of stormwater opportunities in the Central or North Texas regions.  

This is an exciting opportunity for a self-motivated professional to contribute and grow our business in Texas. In this position, you will collaborate with our technical experts to successfully execute projects and achieve our clients’ objectives while providing excellent client services.  

This role sits within our resilience global business area. We work to protect our natural environment and water resources, while powering our world for future generations. Around the world, we’re feeling the effects of climate change, rapid urbanization, and loss of biodiversity. The rate at which we’re seeing large-scale, unforeseen events such as floods and wildfires, is becoming more frequent. We are here to protect our natural environment and water resources, while powering our world for future generations. 

Role accountabilities:

As a Senior Stormwater Resilience Engineer, you will be responsible for leading and supporting the development of resiliency projects focused on urban drainage systems, streams, and rivers. This involves devising and implementing both structural and non-structural mitigation solutions, integrating green and gray infrastructure approaches to enhance stormwater management and flood resilience.

You will manage the planning, design, and construction administration phases of projects, ensuring full compliance with contracts, drawings, specifications, codes, statutes, rules, and regulations, alongside adherence to Arcadis quality and safety standards. Effective communication with clients is essential including establishing project objectives, coordinating resources, and ensuring timely, budget-compliant delivery that meets client performance expectations.

Your role requires providing technical expertise on multi-disciplinary projects acting as a design leader, QA/QC reviewer, or technical advisor. You will supervise and support the work of others offering mentorship and guidance to junior engineers and technical staff to foster professional development.

Direct client engagement is expected to identify needs, deliver tailored solutions, and lead the growth of client relationships, especially with strategic and target clients. You will also play a key role in the marketing and proposal phases of projects, contributing to the preparation of proposals, presentations, and the development of scopes of work and budgets for stormwater and flood resiliency initiatives.

Travel may be required to conduct project site visits, attend client meetings, perform safety audits, support planning activities, or oversee construction, as dictated by project staffing and requirements.

Key Skills/Attributes 

Candidate should have excellent technical engineering skills as well as strong, clear, and concise written and oral communication skills. The ability to lead teams and collaborates with clients is essential.  We are looking for candidates with excellent technical writing skills and proven experience in stormwater design or related fields, with a strong understanding of local market dynamics.  Experience with client relationships/experience with the local municipalities is highly desired. 

Qualifications & Experience:

Required Qualifications 

• Minimum of 8 years experience. 
• Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering in Civil, Environmental, or related. 
• P.E. license or ability to acquire P.E. licensure in Texas within 6 months. 

Preferred Qualifications 

• 12+ years’ experience. 
• Active involvement in local professional organizations, stormwater committees, or green infrastructure groups. 
• Responsible Charge (Engineer of Record) or Project Management experience on stormwater projects of various sizes. 

Why Arcadis?

We can only achieve our goals when everyone is empowered to be their best. We believe everyone's contribution matters. It’s why we are pioneering a skills-based approach, where you can harness your unique experience and expertise to carve your career path and maximize the impact we can make together.

You’ll do meaningful work, and no matter what role, you’ll be helping to deliver sustainable solutions for a more prosperous planet. Make your mark, on your career, your colleagues, your clients, your life and the world around you.

Together, we can create a lasting legacy.

Join Arcadis. Create a Legacy.

Our Commitment to Equality, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging

We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day which is why we take equality and inclusion seriously and hold ourselves to account for our actions. Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people. We are an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. Women, minorities, people with disabilities and veterans are strongly encouraged to apply. We are dedicated to a policy of non-discrimination in employment on any basis including race, creed, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, citizenship status, disability, veteran status, or any other basis prohibited by law.

Arcadis offers benefits for full time and part time positions. These benefits include medical, dental, and vision, EAP,  401K, STD, LTD, AD&D, life insurance, paid parental leave, reward & recognition program and optional benefits including wellbeing benefits, adoption assistance and tuition reimbursement.  We offer nine paid holidays and 20 days PTO that accrue per year. The salary range for this position is $112,640 - $168,960. Actual salaries will vary and are based on several factors, such as experience, education, budget, internal equity, project and location.

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