SENIOR RESTORATION DESIGN ENGINEER

Herrera Environmental Consultants is seeking a Senior Restoration Design Engineer in Bellingham, WA. The role involves managing design tasks for ecological projects, including habitat restoration and flood risk reduction, while collaborating with a multidisciplinary team. Candidates should have over 15 years of experience in river and floodplain projects, a relevant engineering degree, and a PE license. The company values a collaborative culture and professional growth.
About the position

We are Herrera, a science, planning, and design consulting firm dedicated to working with clients to develop holistic solutions that provide social and environmental benefit. We protect the environment every day by providing a diverse range of consulting services to cities, counties, state and federal agencies, Tribes, non-profits, and private clients throughout Washington, Oregon, California, Montana, Wyoming, Alaska, and western Canada. For over 40 years, Herrera has cultivated a collaborative, caring, and values-driven culture that empowers our employee-owners to achieve excellence while ensuring we have fun along the way. By providing our employee-owners with the autonomy to pursue their professional interests and through encouraging them to grow, we benefit from high employee-owner retention that contributes to our longstanding partnerships with clients. In this role, you will work as part of an integrated team with ecologists, landscape architects, engineers, and scientists to develop multi-disciplinary projects in complex ecological settings. The candidate will support a variety of mitigation, restoration, flood risk reduction, and infrastructure protection projects for public and private clients throughout the Western United States in collaboration with multidisciplinary internal and client project teams. Typical types of projects include river and stream habitat restoration and enhancement, fish passage improvements, watershed and floodplain assessment and planning, coastal habitat restoration, river and stream bank stabilization, flood control, and infrastructure development and protection. We are looking for an engineer with 15 or more years of professional experience and expertise in planning and design of projects in rivers, streams, and floodplains. You will be responsible for managing design tasks through completion and construction, preparing proposals, developing scopes of work and budgets for design work, and engaging in business development activities. The ideal candidate will have excellent written and verbal communication skills and the ability to multi-task in a fast-paced environment.

Responsibilities
• Support a variety of mitigation, restoration, flood risk reduction, and infrastructure protection projects.
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• Work as part of an integrated team with ecologists, landscape architects, engineers, and scientists.
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• Develop multi-disciplinary projects in complex ecological settings.
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• Prepare design plans, construction specifications, and construction cost estimates.
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• Manage design tasks through design completion and construction.
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• Prepare proposals and develop scopes of work and budgets for design work.
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• Engage in business development activities.

Requirements
• 15+ years of professional experience in concept development and design of stream and river restoration and floodplain management projects.
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• Bachelor's degree in civil or environmental engineering, or master's degree in civil or environmental engineering if undergraduate degree was not in engineering.
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• Current professional engineer (PE) license in Washington or Oregon, or ability to readily obtain one via comity application based on licensure in another US state.
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• Familiarity with Washington State permitting requirements (e.g., SEPA, HPA, Shoreline).
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• Experience preparing design plans, construction specifications, and construction cost estimates.
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• Experience managing design tasks through design completion and construction.
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• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Nice-to-haves
• Master's degree in civil engineering or environmental science with an emphasis on aquatic ecosystems restoration, hydraulics, and/or geomorphology.
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• Experience as a project manager of floodplain and restoration design or planning projects.
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• Fish passage analysis and design experience with roadway culverts.
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• Construction management and inspection experience.
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• Experience with hydrologic analysis and modeling techniques.
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• Hydraulic modeling experience (one- and two-dimensional).
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• Proficiency in the use of AutoCAD and ArcGIS.

Benefits
• Flexible hybrid work culture
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• Medical/prescription drug/dental/vision insurance for employees and dependents
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• Company-paid life insurance for employees
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• Company-paid long term disability insurance for employees
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• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
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• Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP)
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• 401(k) retirement plan
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• Paid vacation, accrued bi-weekly, equivalent to 15 days per year
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• Paid sick leave, accrued bi-weekly, equivalent to 10 days per year
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• Flexible paid holidays (10)
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• Paid volunteer time (8 hours annually)
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• Company-paid annual membership dues for one professional organization
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• Professional development / continuing education allowance
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• Discretionary annual bonus
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• Transit benefit