Watershed Planning Engineer II/III

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 engineering skills to plan and implement infrastructure and programmatic strategies (e.g., green stormwater infrastructure [GSI], nature-based solutions, stormwater management program enhancements) to improve water quality and ecosystem health? Do you like working as part of integrated, collaborative teams with engineers, landscape architects, scientists, and GIS analysts to solve complex problems in sustainable and equitable ways? Are you looking for an opportunity to help communities create and expand programs to improve watershed and neighborhood resilience? If so, we'd love to hear from you. 

As a Watershed Planning Engineer II/III, you will join a collaborative team of experienced, creative, and mission driven engineers, scientists, landscape architects, planners, and other experts working to solve a variety of environmental issues ranging from watershed to site-specific scales and from urban to rural realms. We are looking for someone who has a strong desire to continually learn, loves to innovate and creatively problem solve, works well within a team, desires to work and grow with other disciplines, and will add to our passionate group dynamic. 

In this role we will count on you to:

• Support planning of stormwater infrastructure from distributed GSI to centralized regional stormwater treatment 
• Support stormwater and urban watershed planning to improve water quality and ecosystem health
• Support municipal stormwater program planning, including policy and guidance development and National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) municipal stormwater permit compliance
• Support climate vulnerability assessments and adaptation planning
• Produce planning, conceptual design, and technical documents
• Review documents, synthesize information, and effectively communicate with both internal and external team members and partners
• Support the development of materials and facilitation of workshops, public meetings, and trainings with municipal staff and the public 
• Learn to manage and prioritize multiple tasks and projects 
• Bring your own knowledge, experiences, and inspirations to make our team better

Minimum Qualifications

Education, Experience, & Licensure/Certifications

• Bachelor's degree in civil, environmental, or water resources engineering
• 3 to 8 years of relevant experience in stormwater and urban watershed planning

Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities

• Experience with planning and/or design of GSI and other stormwater management infrastructure
• Experience and technical proficiency with ArcGIS and/or hydrologic and hydraulic modeling software (including SWMM, MGSFlood, and/or WWHM)
• Preparation of planning and design reports and technical memorandums 
• Experience coordinating with agencies, subconsultants, and planning and design partners
• 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 
• Experience providing project management or task management support 
• Ability to interact with multidisciplinary teams and juggle multiple tasks

Preferred Qualifications 

• Advanced degree in civil, environmental, or water resources engineering
• Registered Professional Engineer in the State of Oregon and/or Washington, or on track to obtain licensure within 24 months of hire
• Experience working with public sector clients, Tribes, utilities, or community-based organizations 
• Familiarity with Pacific Northwest watersheds, regulatory requirements, and stormwater management challenges 
• Experience with grant writing, training, and regulatory document development
• Experience with public speaking and meeting/workshop facilitation
• Experience with parametric and itemized cost estimating for stormwater infrastructure projects
• Familiarity with facilitating meetings with whiteboarding tools (e.g., Miro, Canva, Microsoft Whiteboard)
• Familiarity with engineering and graphic design tools (e.g., Autodesk AutoCAD, Bluebeam, Revu, Adobe InDesign)

Other specific training and professional organization affiliations should be noted in the applicant's resume and/or cover letter.

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:
  • Engineer II: $84,100 - $103,900
  • Engineer III: $94,000 - $113,800 
• 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, 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 .