Senior Water Resources Engineer

Applied Ecology, Inc., a small environmental consulting business with rapidly expanding footprint, is seeking a highly motivated and energetic Environmental, Civil, or Coastal Engineer to expand our Water Resources Service Line. This position requires a strong background in water resources and environmental engineering, a PE license, solid project management skills, and experience working with the public sector. AEI has three offices located in Florida and is a regional leader in water resources, ecological and natural resources, geospatial services, and environmental remediation and contamination services.

This position can be based out of Melbourne, Orlando or Tampa offices.

As a small business, we are involved in diverse, yet challenging environmental and utility projects, providing a great setting for a motivated individual to shape the growth of Applied Ecology in the municipal and federal sector. This is your opportunity to shape the engineering team, pursue the projects you always wanted and further expand the range of AEI’s high-quality reputation in providing integrated and innovative engineering solutions for water quality, flooding, and resiliency.

Qualified candidates must have demonstrated excellence in water resources projects, including feasibility studies, planning, modeling and/or design, with a minimum of 8 years of progressive experience, and two as a project manager. Competency is desired in one or more areas including surface water or stormwater management, water supply planning, wastewater treatment efficiency processes, water quality restoration, watershed management planning, shoreline design, coastal management, resilience, or Low Impact Development/Green Infrastructure design.

Candidate must have a desire to participate in interdisciplinary research teams, be a natural problem‑solver, detail oriented, and able to lead a team to design, implement, monitor and evaluate water resource management and restoration projects. Experience with federal and state contracts is preferred.

Interested applicants, please submit a cover letter and resume addressed to Dr. Leesa Souto, Director of Operations.

• Manage a variety of projects that may include planning, evaluation, design, and construction of stormwater treatment systems, wastewater treatment systems, coastal structures, among others.
• Technical lead responsible for the execution of work involving conventional and innovative environmental and ecological engineering designs and other related infrastructure projects.
• Supervise field assessments to evaluate and document existing site‑specific conditions or collect design criteria or evaluation data.
• Participate in interdisciplinary research teams to conduct environmental studies, permitting, and alternative analyses.
• Train junior staff and supervise those completing engineering calculations, technical drawings and specifications.
• Peer review or primary senior author on technical reports, depending on project complexity.
• Check performance or conformity with design plans and specifications through field inspection and reporting.
• Plan project approach, develop scopes of work, prepare technical work plans and project status reports.
• Review local, state, and federal regulations to ensure compliance throughout project implementation.
• Ensure the application of approved standard operating practices to field and data management practices.
• Contribute to the development of proposals and scopes of work in response to client task requests.
• Build business relationships with local and federal government clients.
• Assist with expanding the Water Resources service line, including leading and/or peer reviewing responses to RFPs and RFQs, conducting shortlisting presentations, and attending conferences.
• Communicate with various municipality, utility, and government clients, subcontractors, and government regulating agencies.
• Manage the scope, schedule, and budget across multiple projects – from conceptual studies to full design and construction administration to ensure projects are completed on time and within budget.
• Plan and manage project staffing requirements and…