Stormwater Design Engineer

We are Herrera
Envision yourself at a growing, employee-owned company that inspires and empowers you to deliver your best performance while making a difference in the world.
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.
Our Values

• Treat everyone with respect and dignity, always.
• Insist on integrity, objectivity, and social and environmental ethics in our work.
• Act as stewards of the environment upon which we depend.
• Research and outreach, learn and teach.
• Employee owners, employee leaders.

Your Opportunity
Are you interested in applying your planning and engineering design skills to design stormwater infrastructure to improve water quality and support communities? Do you like working as part of integrated design teams with ecologists, landscape architects, planners, and scientists to design performance-based stormwater improvements on complex sites for compliance with state, federal, and industry standards to protect our water resources? Then this role is for you!
As a Stormwater Design Engineer, you will join a team of experienced, creative, and mission driven engineers, scientists, landscape architects, planners, biologists, and other experts working on a diverse variety of meaningful and impactful projects, such as stormwater and green infrastructure projects, water resources projects, and water quality studies.
In this role we will count on you to:

• Plan and design small- to large-scale stormwater facilities and infrastructure retrofits
• Plan and design stormwater infrastructure for municipal, industrial, non-profit and community partners
• Complete civil site development engineering design for industrial facilities, parks, trails, and open spaces
• Understand and navigate the requirements of Municipal Stormwater Permits, Construction Stormwater General Permits, and other local stormwater requirements in Washington, Oregon, and California
• Evaluate potential sources of contamination and propose solutions to manage stormwater to meet regulatory requirements
• Produce plans, specifications, cost estimates, and technical reports for stormwater infrastructure projects
• Participate on an interdisciplinary team of designers, scientists, and support staff to deliver water quality solutions to clients
• Model and design flow control, water quality, and conveyance infrastructure to meet federal, state, and local standards

Minimum Qualifications
Education, Experience, & Licensure/Certifications

• 4+ years of relevant experience
• Bachelor's degree in civil or environmental engineering
• Professional Engineer (PE) license in Washington, Oregon, or California, or ability to obtain within 6 months of hire
• Experience in planning and design of stormwater infrastructure
• Experience collaborating with a team of staff from diverse technical disciplines
• Experience preparing plans, specifications, and cost estimate packages along with related technical reports for public and/or private stormwater management facilities and/or site development civil engineering projects
• Experience with hydraulic and hydrologic stormwater modeling
• Construction management and/or inspection experience working on civil projects
• Experience developing scopes of work and budgets for design projects
• Experience with local stormwater regulations in Washington, Oregon and/or California
• Experience with Construction Stormwater Pollution Prevention Plans (SWPPP)

Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities

• Commitment to staying current with technical and regulatory developments in the dynamic field of stormwater management
• Strong team collaboration, clear written and verbal communication abilities, and excellent organizational skills
• A passion for developing sustainable solutions to complex water resource problems for public and private clients
• Ability to foster respectful, long-lasting relationships with clients, contractors, and other consultants

Preferred Qualifications

• 8+ years of relevant experience
• Knowledge of appropriate stormwater BMPs to manage nutrients, metals, sediment, and contaminants of emerging concern
• Bluebeam or PDF editing software used for design redlines
• Business development experience

We are proud to support our employee-owners by offering the following compensation and benefits:

• This position is salaried and exempt from overtime; the annual salary ranges by level are:
  • Level III: $91,200 - $112,100
  • Level IV: $105,100 - $147,000
  • Salary is determined during the interview process and will vary based on multiple factors, including but not limited to years of experience, type/relevance of experience, skillset, and fit for the role
• Flexible hybrid work culture
• Medical/prescription drug/dental/vision insurance for employees and dependents; employees covered at no cost on base plan with buy-up options available; company contribution for dependents
• Section 125 flexible benefits plans - healthcare and dependent care
• Company-paid life insurance for employees; option to purchase additional life insurance for employees and dependents at employees' expense
• Company-paid long term disability insurance for employees; option to purchase short-term disability insurance at employees' expense
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) - we are 100% employee owned!
• 401(k) retirement plan
• Paid vacation, accrued bi-weekly, equivalent to 15 days per year for a 40 hour/week employee and prorated for employees working 24-39 hours/week
• Paid sick leave, accrued bi-weekly, equivalent to 10 days per year for a 40-hour/week employee and prorated for employees working 24-39 hours per week
• Flexible paid holidays (10)
• Paid volunteer time (8 hours annually)
• Company-paid annual membership dues for one professional organization
• Professional development / continuing education allowance
• Discretionary annual bonus
• Transit benefit

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We Are Committed to Equal Opportunity, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
At Herrera, we celebrate our differences as much as our similarities. We know the best outcomes come from interdisciplinary, diverse, and inclusive teams. Our values are ever-present in the people, culture, and work we do, they are not just a few sentences on our website. We treat people with respect and act with integrity and objectivity. Our employment decisions are based on knowledge, skills, and abilities, and have nothing to do with your race, color, gender, gender identity, age, religion, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, medical history, reproductive health decisions, political ideology, veteran status, or physical appearance. As an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer, we encourage women, minorities, veterans, disabled veterans, and individuals with disabilities to apply for our open positions. We are also a member of E-Verify. To learn more about E-Verify, read the E-Verify Notice and the Right to Work Notice.