Civil Engineering Designer - Stormwater - Uptown Charlotte

Municipal Stormwater Project Planner/Designer

ESP Associates, Inc. is seeking motivated individuals with a strong desire to learn and a demonstrated ability to work on a motivated team. This is a great opportunity to focus on municipal stormwater projects with a well-established firm. The position entails planning and design for municipal stormwater projects, including preparation of construction documents, calculations, reports, and other supporting documents for design plans.

This role offers an opportunity to work as an embedded resource with a client near Uptown Charlotte with light rail and greenway access nearby!

Additionally, this role offers a hybrid schedule working remote Mondays through Wednesdays and in-office Thursdays and Fridays (*schedule subject to change based on client policies).

Responsibilities:

• This position includes creating construction cost estimates, developing traffic control plans, preparing erosion control plans, and meeting with supporting personnel such as client staff, utility representatives, surveyors, real estate agents, structural and geotechnical engineers, and others.
• The candidate will meet with individual property owners to effectively communicate project specific information related to the project scope. This information may include, but not be limited to, how project needs may impact the property, traffic, road closures, utilities, need for easements.
• The candidate will also attend site meetings with other engineers, client staff, contractors, and others to provide project updates, schedule considerations, address conflicts, acquire project information, and other necessary communication.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering or Civil Engineering Technology
• 2+ years of transferrable design experience
• Proficient in AutoCAD and/or Civil3D
• Proficient in hydrologic and hydraulic principles
• Must have excellent written/verbal communication skills
• Candidate must be able to pass a drug screen, background check, and have a satisfactory driving record in accordance with the company's driving (MVR) policy

Preferred:

• EI or EIT
• Experience using any of the following software:

• ArcGIS
• Bentley StormCAD
• Bentley Flow Master
• HEC-RAS
• Hydroflow Hydrographs
• Hydraflow Storm Sewers
• HydroCAD
• WinTR-55
• HY-8

Corporate Information:

ESP is a multi-discipline engineering design and consulting firm providing our clients with civil engineering, surveying, planning/landscape architecture, geosciences, environmental, subsurface utility engineering, and construction engineering inspection.

Through years of dedicated service to our clients, ESP has received a designation of 195 on the 2025 ENR Top 500 Design Firm rankings. For the firm's primary territory, the ENR Texas & Southeast Top Design Firms, ESP received a 2025 ranking of 52.

ESP offers an excellent employee benefits package including:

• Competitive compensation with yearly performance reviews and discretionary annual bonuses
• 401(k) (Traditional & Roth plans) with a guaranteed employer match of 100% up to the first 3% and 50% on the next 2% (eligibility after 60 days)
• PTO (Paid Time Off) & 10 Paid Holidays
• VTO (Volunteer Time Off) of 4 hours each year (prorated during first year based on hire date)
• Tiered Health, Vision & Dental Insurance Options (eligibility after 30 days)
• Behavioral Medicine through Teladoc
• Short-Term Disability Insurance (Employer paid)
• Long-Term Disability Insurance
• Life Insurance
• Pet Insurance
• Education Reimbursement Opportunities
• Flexible and Dependent Benefits Plan
• Referral Bonuses