Mid to Senior Water Resource Engineer - Resource Environmental Solutions LLC

RES is looking for a Water Resource Engineer with experience in water resources and natural system restoration. 

Working for RES means having a career that truly makes an impact and a job that improves nature and our communities. Our people share a deep interest and passion for sustainability and ecological restoration. As an ever-growing company, we cultivate entrepreneurship, flexibility, and collaboration while taking a bold approach to project development. We foster a team environment while enriching individual growth. 

As a member of our team, you will focus on projects for ecosystem restoration, water quality treatment, and improvements in complex watersheds, as well as solving unique ecological and hydrologic issues in various complex watersheds across the state. Opportunities may include projects for large landscape-level flood mitigation, water storage, and nutrient reduction projects related to EPA’s Impaired Waters Rule/Total Maximum Daily Loads (TMDLs) and Florida’s Basin Management Action Plans (BMAPs).

The Mission

Join our team of engineers and professionals in Florida to develop nature-based solutions. This is a perfect opportunity for an Engineer to make an immediate impact on the design and implementation of unique and large-scale restoration projects. 

What does the day to day look like:

Our team’s workload is diverse and varies depending on the pressing regional issues, but the position will comprise of: 

You will be responsible for developing and evaluating plans and criteria for a variety of engineering projects and initiatives; leading and assisting with feasibility and concept development for watershed-level stormwater management, stream and wetland restoration solutions, water quality treatment technologies and BMPs; identifying errors/malfunctions/omissions and implementing corrective actions. 

Technical Design and Permitting Support: You will collaborate with the engineering teams in Florida and other regions to design and to design and implement enhancements to existing and new natural systems.

Lead responses to requests for qualifications and proposals for government and municipal projects and contracts.  

Assist with larger marketing and sales initiatives. 

Please note that this is not an exhaustive list of responsibilities that this position entails.  

We would like to talk to you if you have the following: 

• Bachelor’s degree in Civil, Environmental, Agricultural Engineering, Coastal Engineering with a water resources or environmental focus. 

• Registered PE in FL is preferred or able to obtain Florida PE within 6 months of hiring. 

• 6 to 15 years of designing ecological and hydrological restoration projects, including terrestrial, coastal, estuarine, aquatic, and/or wetlands restoration projects and stormwater management systems.  
• Direct experience with Federal/State/Local environmental regulations and staff and understanding of the Federal Clean Water Act, State Stormwater Rule, and other state and federal environmental regulations, and permitting processes. 
• Experience in plan and specification development. 

What will make you stand out: 

• Master’s degree in Civil, Environmental, Agricultural Engineering with a water resources or environmental focus. 

• Experience in Low Impact Design systems. 
• Experience in living shorelines and coastal permitting. 

• Experience preparing water budgets and floodplain analyses, H&H models including ICPR4, suite of HEC models 

• Experience in ArcGIS and/or ArcGIS Pro 
• Knowledge of groundwater hydrology, and stream and wetland biological functionality. 

• Knowledge of watershed level hydrology, stream geomorphology, physicochemical processes, stream hydraulics, water quality, design/assessment of urban/agricultural water resource and nutrient management best management practices, aquatic ecology, and sediment quality and transport. 
• Knowledge of stream natural channel design, including geomorphology, physicochemical processes, stream hydraulics, aquatic ecology, and sediment transport in Florida.  

VEVRAA Federal Contractor

RES is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

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