Project Engineer - Water Resources

  • McAdams
  • Lewisville, Texas
  • Full Time
Project Engineer - Water Resources

McAdams

United States, Texas, Lewisville

4400 State Highway 121 (Show on map)

Jun 07, 2025

McAdams is a full-service land planning, landscape architecture, civil engineering, transportation, and geomatics firm located in North Carolina, South Carolina, Texas, and Florida. We seek to partner with our clients to create meaningful experiences through inspired design. Our employees are what make McAdams different. We bring experiences to the forefront of everything we do, and to do that takes special people.

Essential Functions + Responsibilities

Be on the forefront of an evolving design market

Interact with other operational groups within the overall company structure

Communicate with plan reviewers and project stakeholders

Creative problem solving

Work with senior engineering and landscape architecture staff to design innovative stormwater and resiliency measures which reduce flooding

Working on stormwater designs, retrofits, construction drawings, and watershed planning studies.

Collaborate with Land Development, Planners, and Landscape Architects to enhance stormwater designs and integrate stormwater into site architecture

Work with a variety of client types including residential and commercial development, campuses, multimodal transportation, greenways, and parks

Field work and site visits from study or design through construction

Design and/or analysis of riverine and open stormwater conveyances, including swales, constructed, and natural channels. Design and/or analysis of other stormwater conveyances such as curb cuts, flumes, and pipe culvert systems to direct runoff to management strategies may also be required

Design and analysis of stormwater management facilities (peak flow rate detention)

Development and analysis of proposed design solutions

Creation of FEMA Flood Studies, CLOMR/LOMR letters, and No-Rise certifications

Qualifications

Four-year bachelor's degree from an accredited program in Civil Engineering, Environmental Engineering, Biological and Agricultural Engineering, Civil Engineering Technology, or related field

5 - 10 years of experience in water resources and design experience

Experience with AutoCAD

Excellent communication, critical thinking, and problem-solving skills

Self-starter with strong drive to better oneself, project team, and community

Ability and desire to be licensed in Texas within 4 months

Preferences

Experience with stormwater, floodplain, and watershed modeling

Experience with FEMA processes and submittals

Understanding of common stormwater regulations and permitting requirements

Civil 3D

Exposure to ArcGIS Pro or other GIS Software

Experience with HEC-RAS, HEC-HMS

Licensed as a Professional Engineer in Texas

McAdams is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard for race, color, religion, gender (including pregnancy, sexual orientation, or gender identity), national origin, age, disability, genetic information, veteran's status, or any other legally protected status.

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Job ID: 480961183
Originally Posted on: 6/12/2025

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