Lead Water Resources Engineer

Job Description

Career Blueprint: Lead Water Resources Engineer


A premier, award-winning infrastructure firm in the Greater Chicago Area is expanding its elite engineering division. This organization represents the gold standard in the industry, recognized as a Best Place to Work and celebrated for unmatched organizational stability. Their culture speaks for itself, boasting an exceptional employee retention rate with an average team member tenure of over 10.5 years.This position bypasses the standard corporate treadmill, offering a direct avenue to firm ownership, advanced technical resources, and high-impact regional projects.


The Financial & Professional Package

• Compensation Structure: Elite annual base salary ranging from $90,000.00 to $120,000.00, supplemented by comprehensive benefits.
• Equity & Ownership: Direct, structured opportunities for firm ownership to ensure you share in the organization’s long-term success.
• Modern Infrastructure: Full access to an internal technology advancement committee dedicated to keeping your hardware and software suites cutting-edge.
• Unrivaled Retention: Join a stable, high-performance environment where engineering professionals average more than a decade of tenure.
• Professional Development: Targeted, goal-driven mentorship programs designed to accelerate your transition into executive engineering leadership.
• Total Well-being: Comprehensive, employee-led programs covering wellness, community impact, and professional enrichment.

The Scope of Impact

• Multidisciplinary Leadership: Drive critical hydrologic and hydraulic analyses for major regional transportation, highway, and municipal infrastructure initiatives.
• Strategic Oversight: Lead the execution of complex Phase I and Phase II deliverables, including location drainage studies, hydraulic reports, and specialized floodway modeling.
• Regulatory Navigation: Manage high-level agency coordination and permitting processes with key regional bodies, ensuring seamless compliance across complex civil landscapes.
• Team Development: Cultivate technical excellence within the firm by mentoring junior engineers and maintaining absolute QA/QC integrity across all project documentation.

Precision Profiling

• Licensure: Hold an active Illinois Professional Engineer (P.E.) license alongside a B.S. in Civil Engineering.
• Experience Baseline: Exhibit 6 to 10 years of dedicated expertise in drainage, hydraulics, or water resources engineering.
• Regional Mechanics: Demonstrate a comprehensive understanding of regional agency design manuals, stormwater ordinances, and documentation requirements.
• Technical Mastery: Maintain proficiency in industry-standard modeling software and advanced Bentley design suites.

Direct Executive Search Contact


This search is being managed at the executive level.


For a confidential consultation regarding this market opportunity, connect directly:


David Meyer

Civil Engineering Recruiter


GPAC | Growing People and Companies


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All qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, age, color, sex (including pregnancy), religion, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, military status, genetic information, or any other status protected by applicable laws or regulations. GPAC (Growing People and Companies) is an award-winning search firm specializing in placing quality professionals within multiple industries across the United States since 1990. We are extremely competitive, client-focused and realize that our value is in our ability to deliver the right solutions at the right time.