Job Description

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.

Your Opportunity

Are you interested in applying your engineering skills to design green infrastructure to improve water quality and support communities? Do you like working as part of integrated design teams with ecologists, landscape architects, and scientists to design high-performance projects in complex ecological settings? Are you looking for a leadership opportunity and to grow your project management skills? Then this role is for you.

As a Senior Engineer, you will join a team of experienced, creative, and mission driven designers working on diverse projects across the landscape from the urban realm to the upper watershed. You will be responsible to variously lead and support:

• The planning and design of green stormwater infrastructure retrofits in the urban realm
• The planning and design of regional stormwater facilities
• Green infrastructure program support and development of design guidance
• General civil site development engineering design for high performance green buildings, parks, trails, and open space
• Stormwater conveyance system modeling and design
• Project management for projects seeking high water quality performance, those in complex ecological settings, and which support communities of all types

Minimum Qualifications

Education, Experience, & Licensure/Certifications

• 12-20 years of civil engineering and stormwater design experience; a Bachelor\xe2\x80\x99s degree in civil/environmental engineering, and be registered as a Professional Engineer (PE)
• Experience in the preparation of plans, specifications, and cost estimate (PS&E) packages for public and private stormwater management facilities and/or site development civil engineering projects

Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities

• Experience with AutoCAD / Civil3D
• Experience with the preparation of stormwater design reports
• Experience with Hydraulic and Hydrologic stormwater modeling
• Engineering design experience on site civil development and linear transportation projects
• Experience coordinating among client, agencies, subconsultants, and allied professions
• Commitment to staying current with technical and regulatory developments in the dynamic field of stormwater management and green building
• Strong team collaboration, clear written and verbal communication abilities, and excellent organizational skills
• Experience with business development and proposal writing
• A passion for developing sustainable solutions to complex water resource problems for public and private clients

Preferred Qualifications

• A Master\xe2\x80\x99s degree in civil/environmental engineering
• Experience with planning and/or design of green stormwater infrastructure (GSI) and low impact development (LID) practices

• If candidate does not have this experience, training and mentorship will be provided

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

• This position is salaried and exempt from overtime; the salary range is $137,535 - $179,935 annually
• 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 \xe2\x80\x93 healthcare and dependent care
• Company-paid life insurance for employees; option to purchase additional life insurance for employees and dependents at employees\xe2\x80\x99 expense
• Company-paid long term disability insurance for employees; option to purchase short-term disability insurance at employees\xe2\x80\x99 expense
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP)
• 401(k) retirement plan
• Paid vacation accrued at 3.077 hours every two weeks (for a 40 hour/week employee, equivalent to 10 days per year)
• Paid sick time accrued at 3.077 hours every two weeks (for a 40 hour/week employee, equivalent to 10 days per year)
• 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

Herrera is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer and a member of E-Verify. The requirements listed above are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of this position. Employment decisions are based on merit, qualifications, and abilities. Herrera does not discriminate based on race, color, gender, gender identity, age, religion, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, or veteran status in accordance with all applicable local, state and federal laws. We encourage women, minorities, veterans, disabled veterans, and individuals with disabilities to apply for this position.

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