Water Resources Engineer - Kiewit Infrastructure Engineers

Position Overview

With large transportation design/build projects - come big storm-water drainage, hydraulic, and water resources needs!  Are you ready to take on new challenges and work on landmark design/build projects? We have immediate openings for Drainage Engineers to work in our Design Engineering Services Group in our Lone Tree, CO office.  Our Drainage Team strives to engineer safe, and compliant designs that minimizes risks and quantities and remains on schedule. We facilitate a sense of community that provides learning and growth opportunities that leads to resourcefulness, collaboration, and innovation. We offer opportunities to grow your knowledge in construction means and methods and estimating, which leads to increased expertise in temporary and permanent drainage design. Our construction focused engineering approach successfully delivers complex projects that are built on time and within budget, providing a sense of fulfillment and reward.  

As a Water Resources Engineer, you will be part of our rapidly growing Infrastructure Design Department - a multi-faceted and leading-edge division of Kiewit with best-in-class technical expertise focused on the Design-Build/Alternative delivery of infrastructure projects. You will be working on teams with all levels of drainage engineers on a variety of projects across North America including design-build and progressive design-build projects and pursuits. Our engineers work on interdisciplinary teams including geotechnical engineers, structural engineers, roadway engineers, estimators, schedulers and construction experts to perform engineering analysis and design in support of pursuits and ongoing projects.
 

District Overview

Kiewit Infrastructure Engineering seamlessly transitions solutions from design to construction through the collaborative efforts of Design Engineering, Design Management, Proposals, Estimating, and Integrated Project Controls. Our construction-focused engineering approach involves a multidisciplinary team working together to maximize value for clients by improving schedules, controlling costs, and minimizing risk on infrastructure projects. This integrated strategy emphasizes collaboration and constructability throughout the project lifecycle, enabling us to identify and implement quality solutions with a strong safety focus.

Clients benefit from Kiewit’s proven processes and tools, which minimize project risk. As an in-house resource, we support projects across the company, in all major markets, sharing experiences, innovative concepts, and best practices. Kiewit’s management and implementation of this process result in safe, cost-effective, and innovative designs that exceed client expectations and uphold Kiewit’s legacy of excellence.

At Kiewit, we believe in building more than just structures – we build relationships, strengthen communities, and expand workforce capacity. We don't just build projects; we build careers. With top-notch health benefits, a wealth-building 401k plan (RRSP), and unbeatable growth opportunities, we are deeply invested in the future of our employees. Join us at Kiewit, where we go beyond construction to develop the ultimate road to success.
 

Location

This position is based out of our Lone Tree, CO office.  This is not a remote work opportunity, but we offer excellent relocation assistance if you need it.    
 

Responsibilities

You will be responsible for drainage design, hydrologic and hydraulic analysis (using various models and methods), and preparation of design plans, reports and technical documentation, as well as mentoring and leading junior staff and interns in the delivery of drainage and H&H functions. 
You can expect to prepare design plans, reports, and technical memoranda. Other general responsibilities include: (based on expertise):

Hydrology
•    Single-event and continuous rainfall modeling
•    Watershed analysis, hydrograph and peak discharge development and routing
•    Software experience includes: HEC-HMS, SWMM, TR-55, SBUH and HSPF method programs

Hydraulics
•    Pavement drainage, culverts, storm systems, pump stations, bridge sizing and scour
•    Understanding of FHWA hydraulic engineering circulars and design series
•    Flood analysis and knowledge of the NFIP including CLOMR and LOMRs
•    Stormwater quantity / quality calculations, LID, NPDES compliance and erosion control
•    Channel hydraulics and design to include restoration techniques, erosion and scour protection, and alternative lining concepts.
•    Software experience includes: HEC-RAS, HEC-GEORAS, HY-8, PCSWMM, Culvert Master, Storm CAD, Civil Storm, Pond Pack, Flow Master, 2D experience helpful such as SRH-2D, FLO-2D

Drainage Design 
•    Development of drainage plans, profiles, specifications and estimates for transportation and water resources projects. This includes developing terrain, grading and other design components via models such as Inroads, Arc-GIS and other pre and post processing software packages
•    Software experience includes: MicroStation, AutoCAD, Arc-GIS, GEOPAK, Inroads, Civil3D, OpenRoads Designer, HydroCAD.
•    3D modeling and/or programming experience a plus.

Coordination and Leadership
•    Participate in interdisciplinary design coordination to ensure that project elements are compatible
•    Support project communications and technical meetings, provide coordination to resolve design issues
•    Support plan production, specifications, estimate and drainage design development and will be responsible / in charge of engineering work and may be the Engineer of Record for final design projects.
 

Qualifications

•    Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering or related field, with a minimum of 8+ years of design experience in drainage, water resources, hydraulics or hydrology in either transportation or land development projects.*
•    Must have PE license 
•    Working knowledge of hydrologic analysis methods including single-event and continuous rainfall modeling, watershed analysis, hydrograph and peak discharge development and routing (from a national perspective).  
•    Ideal H&H software experience includes any or all of the following: HEC-HMS, SWMM, TR-55, HEC-RAS, HEC-GEORAS, HY-8, CulvertMaster, StormCAD, CivilStorm, PondPack, FlowMaster; SWMM, 2D experience helpful such as SRH-2D, FLO-2D
•    Prefer experience with pavement drainage, culverts, storm systems, bridge sizing and scour, revetment design, temporary drainage design, and coastal considerations for highway and transit drainage   
•    Understanding of FHWA hydraulic engineering circulars and design series
•    Familiarity with flood risk analysis and knowledge of the NFIP including CLOMR and LOMRs  is preferred
•    Must have working knowledge of storm water quantity / quality calculations, NPDES compliance and erosion control 
•    Must have excellent organizational skills and data integrity/file management/version control experience.
•    Familiarity with design-build/alternative delivery is preferred
•    Experience developing construction plans for transportation projects is preferred
•    Able to travel as needed to other Kiewit offices and project sites, up to 25%