Senior Water Engineer / Hydraulic Modeler

Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets.

We are more than 36,000 people, in over 70 countries, dedicated to improving quality of life. Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds, together we can solve the world’s most complex challenges and deliver more impact together.

Role description:

Arcadis is seeking a Senior Water Engineer / Hydraulic Modeler, to join our world-class firm in New York City, NY working on innovative climate adaptation projects within the New York City metropolitan area.

This is an exciting opportunity for a self-motivated and independent professional to join our team locally with support from one of the best qualified consulting firms in the country. In this position you will utilize your professional experience and technical knowledge of stormwater resiliency, wastewater collection and sewer systems modeling, and infrastructure design and construction, to execute projects and developing project pursuits within the local and regional municipal market of this office, to help build and grow our practice. This is a leadership position in an established group that is performing many high-profile modeling efforts within the NYC area.

Role accountabilities:

As a Senior Water Engineer / Hydraulic Modeler, performing engineering activities for climate adaptation, wastewater collection system and stormwater modeling, evaluations, investigations, planning, feasibility studies, design and construction will be a key part of your role. Work may also include flow monitoring review, drainage planning, resiliency analysis, interior flooding assessment, and stormwater management alternatives.

Assisting others with defining scope of work and objectives through research and fact-finding, combined with a strong understanding of business line and industry requirements you will ensure project compliance with all Arcadis’ practices and quality and safety standards.

By exercising independent judgment on details of work and in making preliminary selections and adaptations of engineering alternatives, you will coordinate for timely completion and submission of project deliverables. This may include producing and reviewing technical reports. Role involves the leadership of technical work including guidance and QA/QC of work produced by a robust team of junior and mid-level staff delivering model-based analysis and drainage plans in the NYC metropolitan area.

Qualifications & Experience:

First and foremost, you share our passion for improving the quality of life. You pride yourself for the part you play in transforming the world around you and understand the importance of teamwork. You are a technically capable with experience in design of water infrastructure projects and come to us with:

• Hydraulic modeling & engineering experience for evaluations, investigations, planning, feasibility studies and modeling (InfoWorks ICM experience preferred) of wastewater collection and stormwater systems and 2D flow routing and flooding.
• Experience with ArcGIS Pro, including the use of ModelBuilder and ArcPy for workflow and tool creation
• Experience with Ruby, Python, and/or .NET programming languages

 Required Qualifications

• 8 years of experience in drainage planning and hydraulic modeling
• MS or PhD in Civil or Environmental Engineering
• Engineer in Training Certification (EIT) or ability to obtain within 1 year

 Preferred Qualifications

• Professional Engineer licensed in the State of New York or ability to obtain within 1 year
• 12+ years of experience in hydraulic modeling, including experience in task or project management
• Product development experience, including the ability to manage the lifecycle of tool development from concept to deployment
• Strong documentation skills for maintaining clear and comprehensive technical documentation

Why Arcadis?

We can only achieve our goals when everyone is empowered to be their best. We believe everyone's contribution matters. It’s why we are pioneering a skills-based approach, where you can harness your unique experience and expertise to carve your career path and maximize the impact we can make together.

You’ll do meaningful work, and no matter what role, you’ll be helping to deliver sustainable solutions for a more prosperous planet. Make your mark, on your career, your colleagues, your clients, your life and