Stormwater Senior Leader
Our client is a nationally recognised engineering and environmental consulting firm seeking a Stormwater Senior Leader to help drive the continued growth of its water resources practice in the Philadelphia or Raleigh region. This is a strategic leadership opportunity for a highly experienced stormwater and flood risk professional looking to combine technical excellence, project leadership, business development, and team mentorship.
The successful candidate will serve as a senior technical leader, overseeing complex hydrologic and hydraulic modelling projects while helping shape the future direction of the stormwater practice. This role offers the opportunity to work on high-profile flood risk, watershed, drainage, dam safety, and regulatory compliance projects that have a significant impact on communities and infrastructure.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead and manage complex stormwater, watershed, flood risk, and drainage engineering projects from planning through delivery, ensuring technical excellence, regulatory compliance, and successful outcomes for clients.
- Provide technical leadership for multidisciplinary teams, guiding project execution, maintaining quality standards, and ensuring projects are delivered on schedule and within scope.
- Serve as a trusted advisor to clients, supporting business development efforts through client engagement, proposal preparation, technical scope development, and strategic growth initiatives.
- Act as a subject matter expert in FEMA regulatory compliance, Risk MAP programme requirements, flood studies, and related regulatory processes, coordinating with local communities and government agencies to achieve successful project outcomes.
- Lead advanced hydrologic analyses, including rainfall-runoff modelling, watershed assessments, discharge estimation, regression analyses, gage calibration, and climate resilience evaluations.
- Oversee advanced hydraulic modelling efforts involving rivers, streams, stormwater networks, levees, alluvial fans, and other complex systems using 1D and 2D modelling approaches.
- Perform and direct comprehensive quality assurance and quality control reviews of hydrologic and hydraulic models, ensuring consistency, defensibility, and technical accuracy.
- Provide mentorship and training to engineers and technical staff, supporting professional development, onboarding, and the continual advancement of team capabilities.
- Collaborate with GIS specialists and technical professionals to develop high-quality mapping products, floodplain analyses, and engineering deliverables.
- Support dam breach studies, inflow design flood evaluations, stormwater permitting, erosion and sediment control planning, water withdrawal permitting, and broader water resources projects.
- Drive innovation by developing improved methodologies, workflows, and technical standards that enhance efficiency, quality, and project delivery.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering, Environmental Engineering, Environmental Science, Natural Sciences, or a related field.
- 20+ years of progressive experience in water resources engineering with extensive expertise in stormwater management, hydrology, hydraulics, and flood risk analysis.
- Demonstrated success leading large, technically complex projects and multidisciplinary engineering teams.
- Strong client-facing experience with excellent communication, presentation, and stakeholder management skills.
- Advanced expertise in hydrologic and hydraulic modelling, including watershed and drainage system analysis, model calibration and validation, regression analysis, gage analysis, and flood risk evaluations.
- Extensive experience with industry-standard software including HEC-RAS, HEC-HMS, SWMM, TUFLOW, RiverFLO-2D, PeakFQ, and related modelling platforms.
- Deep understanding of FEMA flood studies, DFIRM production, Risk MAP programmes, and associated regulatory requirements.
- Experience working with GIS software such as ArcGIS and QGIS, including spatial analysis, data management, mapping, and reporting.
- Knowledge of data collection methodologies, survey integration, risk and vulnerability assessments, benefit-cost analyses, and flood mitigation planning.
- Preferred Qualifications
- Master's degree in Civil Engineering, Environmental Engineering, Environmental Science, Natural Sciences, or a related discipline.
- Professional Engineer (PE) licence or the ability to obtain licensure within six months.
- Experience with dam safety evaluations, levee and floodwall certification, breach analyses, and related flood protection studies.
Why Join?
This is an opportunity to join an established and growing practice where you will have a genuine influence on technical direction, client relationships, and team development. You'll work alongside highly respected industry professionals on significant stormwater and flood risk projects while helping communities improve resilience to future challenges. The role offers a competitive compensation package, comprehensive benefits, professional development support, performance incentives, retirement contributions, flexible working arrangements, and clear pathways for career advancement
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